Facebook Is Letting COVID Deniers Promote Mask-Burning Events and Marches

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Facebook is failing to stop COVID deniers from planning and promoting anti-mask protests across the U.S., including a “Million Maskless March and Mask Burning” event.

Facebook Is Letting COVID Deniers Promote Mask-Burning Events and Marches
Facebook has a ban on posts that discourage good health practices like mask wearing, but the platform's doing nothing to shut these events down.
vice.com
5:43 AM · Apr 9, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8epb/facebook-is-letting-covid-deniers-promote-mask-burning-events-and-marches

Facebook is facilitating the organization and promotion of anti-mask protests across the U.S. including a “Million Maskless March and Mask Burning” event that’s slated to take place in Florida on Saturday.

The events appear to breach Facebook’s prohibition on posts that discourage good health practices such as mask wearing, but Facebook has done nothing to prevent their spread so far. And now, the events have caught the attention of more extreme corners of the internet, including QAnon followers.

Research conducted by media watchdog Media Matters for America (MMFA) and shared exclusively with VICE News, found at least eight anti-mask events being organized and promoted on the platform.

Saturday’s event is being organized through a private Facebook group called ReOpen South Florida. It is run by Fort Lauderdale resident Chris Nelson, who has organized multiple similar protests in recent months, including a “flash mob” inside a Target store.

Nelson says that Saturday will mark “one year of mask tyranny in Broward County and we will mark that date with a celebration of freedom.”

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[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... my Facebook newsfeed is full of people promoting mask-wearing - including me! So many have made the "mask" their Profile Picture. Also, I posted myself getting my first and second vaccine. The "selfie shot" is big on social media... We're much stronger than the naysayers!

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2. after the rest of us are vaccinated

let them have their rallies... but only in indoor crowded convention centers with poor ventilation... invite anyone currently in the hospital who obvious has some other respiratory issue because COVID is not real.