{"id":265648,"date":"2021-08-06T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=210977"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:57:05","slug":"killer-disinformation-how-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hijacked-american-political-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/06\/killer-disinformation-how-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hijacked-american-political-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Disinformation: How Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Hijacked American Political Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has given new life to a national discussion about the dangers of social media-induced misinformation following its request that Facebook censor Covid-19 anti-vaccination propaganda. Biden lamented the proliferation of anti-vaxxer content, declaring: \u201cThey\u2019re killing people. Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that \u2013 and they\u2019re killing people.\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/06\/killer-disinformation-how-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hijacked-american-political-discourse\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/06\/killer-disinformation-how-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hijacked-american-political-discourse\/\">Killer Disinformation: How Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Hijacked American Political Discourse<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/06\/killer-disinformation-how-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hijacked-american-political-discourse\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has given new life to a national discussion about the dangers of social media-induced misinformation following its request that Facebook censor Covid-19 anti-vaccination propaganda. Biden lamented the proliferation of anti-vaxx&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265709,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265648\/revisions\/265709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}