A Request For Help in Getting Two Major COVID Anti-Vax Advocates Removed from Facebook and Twitter
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Hello,
As you may have heard, YouTube took the unprecedented policy of removing two prominent COVID-19 anti-vaxxers off their platform - Dr. Joseph Mercola and Robert Kennedy Jr. These two men are complete con artists and spread disinformation about the COVID-19 virus to sell their books, dietary supplements, "miracle cures", and solicit money for their various charities.
COVID-19 vaccine reluctance is at an all time high in the US with only 55% of the United States general population getting the vaccine. By not getting vaccinated, you not only risk your own life and health, but of everyone around you and especially children and people with immunocompromised immune systems that can't get vaccinated, and you could have COVID and not even know it because you could be asymptomatic.
You're putting a lot of people, yourself included at risk by not getting vaccinated. So, just go get the jab. There's really nothing to it (except some aches and pains after the second shot).
You can learn more at https://www.GetVaccineAnswers.org/ and find a location to get a vaccine from https://www.vaccines.gov/
A recent study conducted by the CDC in September found that unvaccinated people who get COVID are 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/11/cdc-unvaccinated-study-covid-live-updates/8277456002/
There are MANY conspiracy theories floating around about the COVID-19 vaccine and you can read some articles debunking those here:
* Debunked COVID-19 myths survive online, despite facts (AP): https://apnews.com/article/debunked-coronavirus-myths-survive-212dfb8acbf8c759e869f8b391724873 (Archived version: https://archive.ph/c7gpt)
* COVID-19 Myths Debunked (Mayo Clinic): https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/featured-topic/11-covid-19-myths-debunked (Archived version: https://archive.ph/gQSYm)
* COVID-19 Vaccines: Myth Versus Fact (John Hopkins Medicine): https://web.archive.org/web/20210927174029/https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-myth-versus-fact
The Two Charlatans Dr. Joseph Mercola and Robert Kennedy Jr.
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Now, getting back to the main subject of this post is that these two charlatans/quacks/conmen/whatever you want to call them, Dr. Joseph Mercola and Robert Kennedy Jr. need to be deplatformed off Facebook and Twitter as well, so they can stop the fear mongering, misinformation and outright lies about the COVID-19 vaccine from spreading to the general public at large.
What You Can Do
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Dr. Mercola's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/doctor.health
On Facebook, go to Dr. Mercola's page and click the three dots besides the "Learn More" button and find the link that says "Find support or report Page". Next click on Fraud or Scam, then click other and press submit.
Robert Kennedy Jr's Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/doctor.health
On Robert Kennedy Jr's page, do the same thing - click on the three little dots besides the magnifying glass, choose "Find support or report Page", but choose the option for him as False Information, then choose Health, and press submit.
Second, it is advised you send an email to Facebook directly asking them to remove these two quacks off of Facebook. Facebook has already banned Robert Kennedy Jr from Instagram, now it's time for them to take the next step and ban him fully from the platform.
If you're having any trouble filing the report, here is Facebook's Support Page on Reporting Abusive Content: https://www.facebook.com/help/1380418588640631/?helpref=hc_fnav
The next thing you need to do is send an email to make your voices heard, because you can't enter any text into the report forms to specify what they're specifically in violation of.
Here is a sample email you can use to request that they are banned from the site.
Send the emails to support@fb.com and abuse@fb.com. You can make the subject line whatever you wish, but I wrote "Please Ban Dr. Joseph Mercola and Robert Kennedy Jr from your platform" and included the following email which you are more than welcome to copy and paste and email to them.
Sample Email to Facebook
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Hello,
As you may or may not be aware, YouTube took steps today to remove anti-vax videos from their website by banning Dr. Mercola and Robert Kennedy from their platform. However, both Dr. Mercola and Robert Kennedy still have active Facebook pages still online spouting misinformation that puts potentially millions of lives at risk by spreading the false narrative that the COVID vaccine is poison or it's government tyranny to get vaccinated.
It's time for Facebook to step up and remove Dr. Mercola and Robert Kennedy from your platform.
Dr. Mercola: https://www.facebook.com/doctor.health
Robert Kennedy Jr.: https://www.facebook.com/rfkjr/
As you can see from these articles, Dr. Mercola has been in trouble with the US FDA on many occasions for making false claims.
* Dr. Joseph Mercola Ordered to Stop Illegal Claims (QuackWatch) - https://quackwatch.org/11ind/mercola/
* Dr. Mercola: Visionary or Quack? (Chicago Magazine) - https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2012/Dr-Joseph-Mercola-Visionary-or-Quack/
* FDA warns Mercola: Stop selling fake COVID remedies and cures (Alliance for Science) - https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/03/fda-warns-mercola-to-stop-selling-fake-covid-remedies-and-cures/
Also, as you can see by a simple Google search of Mercola's name on the FDA's website, he has received dozens of warning letters from them and has a bad history with them going back many, many years. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afda.gov+mercola
Robert Kennedy also has a history of making false and misleading medical information about the COVID vaccine and other dangerous information that puts the public at risk of severe sickness and even death.
* Robert F. Kennedy Jr says Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates stand to profit from COVID-19 vaccine (Irish Central) - https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-dr-fauci-covid19-vaccine
* Robert F. Kennedy, Jr makes false COVID claims in live talk with Alec Baldwin (Irish Central) - https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-alec-baldwin
* RFK Jr. Stoops to New Low by Falsely Tying Hank Aaron’s Death to Vaccine (The Daily Beast) - https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-stoops-to-new-low-by-falsely-tying-hank-aarons-death-to-vaccine
* How a Kennedy became a ‘superspreader’ of hoaxes on COVID-19, vaccines, 5G and more (The Globe and Mail) - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-robert-f-kennedy-jr-medical-misinformation/
You've already banned Robert Kennedy Jr off of your Instagram platform, so it's time to remove him off Facebook as well. Both of these men are charlatans, quacks, and conmen of the highest degree and their only desire is their greed to sell more copies of their books, dietary supplements, "miracle cures" and spread misinformation and disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine that is detrimental to all of society. Both of these accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers who swallow their lies hook, line and sinker and it's time you took the same steps as YouTube and removed these two con artists off Facebook as well.
I would appreciate it if you would pass this email higher up the food chain to Facebook corporate as I'm sure the decision will need to be made there.
Thank you for your time,
[Enter your name here]
Feel free to add any other information or rewrite any parts you don't like so your email will be unique and their support and abuse departments won't just get flooded with duplicate emails.
Contacting Twitter
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*** UPDATE ***
I got an email back from support@twitter.com which reads:
"Hello,
We appreciate you reaching out, but Twitter doesn’t monitor emails sent to this support address. Please contact our support team through our online form - https://help.twitter.com/forms We also have resources and articles on our Help Center that might be able to answer your question. https://help.twitter.com/
Thanks,
Twitter"
So the email address SUPPORT@TWITTER.COM IS A NO GO!!! Don't waste your time emailing it. Their @TwitterSupport & @TwitterSafety also doesn't accept DMs or reply to msgs, and I've already visited both of those URLs they mentioned to try and fill out a form but got nowhere, so I'm out of ideas other than calling up their corporate HQ on the phone.
If anyone has any other methods to contact Twitter, please let me know. My contact info is at the bottom of this post. Thanks!
*** END OF UPDATE ***
It's notoriously hard to get any sort of response out of Twitter. I located the email address support@twitter.com so you could try emailing that with the same message above, with the exception of Dr. Mercola's Twitter account being @mercola and Robert Kennedy Jr's Twitter account is @RobertKennedyJr.
So, what I ended up doing was going to Twitter's support page at https://help.twitter.com/en/forms and then clicking "Staying Safe On Twitter and sensitive content". None of their categories are very good for the people we're dealing with, so I just choose "I'd like to report an ad on Twitter". On the next page it will ask you for what type of ad it is and you will want to choose "Health and/or pharmaceutical products", the Twitter user's username and then to include a link to some information about the claim your making. You can enter one URL and then click "Add another link". What they actually want you to do is post links to twitter.com where the user posted these ads. I thought about posting the links to the articles under my Twitter username, but I didn't want some bot to see that and accidentally ban my account. However, if you want to dig around through their accounts to see if they have posted anything that violates Twitter's Rules or Terms of Service, please be my guest. I would recommend using the advanced Twitter search available here: https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en
Twitter Rules: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
Twitter ToS: https://twitter.com/en/tos
I tried myself to hunt through Dr. Mercola & Robert Kennedy Jr's tweets to see if I could find anything incriminating that would be in violation of Twitter's Terms of Service. However, after searching around for about an hour I couldn't find them promoting any of his COVID cures - just lies and misinformation. I guess that letter from the FDA made him purge his Twitter account of these ads. So, I decided to go ahead and email support@twitter.com with the same email as the Facebook one, only with some minor tweaks (like their Twitter accounts instead of their Facebook pages, replacing every instance of the word Facebook with Twitter and not mentioning Instagram). I can post the exact text of the email to support@twitter.com here if anybody wants me too.
I encourage you all to do this to get these blood sucking leeches off of these social media platforms where they continue to lie and spread flat out wrong information, which encourages vaccine hesitancy and puts peoples lives at risk. These men should be ashamed of themselves for knowingly spreading these completely bogus and fraudulent information to their hundreds and thousands of followers.
Thank you for your time, and if you have any questions, comments, concerns (I'm not going to get into a debate with you about the vaccine, if you even try this I will block you) please tweet me @pogue25 or you can get in touch with me via email at the following link: http://scr.im/pogue25 and my PGP key is available at https://bitbin.it/GUvMP7vW/ (please use PGP to contact me via email). You can also use the Disqus commenting system available below to post about this guide.
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