Anti-vaxx shut down of a vaccine site at Dodger Stadium was planned on Facebook.

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Wow. In the most shocking news of the week, an anti-vaxx shut down of a vaccine site was planned on @facebook, which previously promised to crack down on both anti-vaxx content AND extremism in their Groups.

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Anti-vaccine protest at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook, including promotion of banned "Plandemic" video https://wapo.st/2Mth6sh
5:44 PM · Feb 1, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/01/dodgers-anti-vaccine-protest-facebook/


The anti-vaccine protest that temporarily cut off access to a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook through a page that promotes debunked claims about the coronavirus pandemic, masks and immunization.

The Facebook page, “Shop Mask Free Los Angeles,” issued a call last week to gather Saturday at the baseball park. Health authorities have been administering shots to as many as 8,000 people a day at the site, one of the largest vaccination centers in the country. Such venues form a critical component of the effort to corral the pandemic, which has lashed Los Angeles County so brutally in recent weeks that oxygen for patients has been in short supply.

The online activity illustrates the extent to which Facebook remains a critical organizing tool of the anti-vaccine movement, despite the company’s repeated vows to curb coronavirus misinformation. It also shows how social networking services could foster more confrontational tactics by those committed to false ideas about the dangers of immunization as the mass vaccination effort ramps up.

“I’m concerned this is the next phase of their anti-vaccine activism, going to places where the vaccine is being distributed and being disruptive there,” said Tara C. Smith, an epidemiologist at Kent State University and an authority on vaccine resistance.

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