NEW: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Instagram act on just 1 in every 20 posts reported to them for spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.

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Volunteers with the Youth Against Misinformation project, trained by us and @RestlessDev, found and reported 912 misinformation posts to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter.

Just 21 were removed, with 3 of the accounts removed and 21 flagged as false but left online.

Posts which Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube chose to leave online include false claims that vaccines:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Kreuzzeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Kreuzzeichen"> Cause autism and cancer
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Kreuzzeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Kreuzzeichen"> Make you more susceptible to Covid-19
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Kreuzzeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Kreuzzeichen"> Are used to “microchip” people
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Kreuzzeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Kreuzzeichen"> Aren’t needed, as there are cures for Covid-19

In our July report, we found 409 anti-vaccine pages with a combined audience of 58 million.

Since then, just six have been removed, while the other pages have grown by another 1.5 million followers.

This hurts the chances of success for a Coronavirus vaccine, which will need to be taken by the vast majority of the population in order to defeat the virus.

Social media’s failure to moderate its own platforms has a cost in lives.

#LiesCostLives