Facebook removed a post on the Nation of Islam’s page that violated the company’s policies against misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine, the company said Friday.
The post linked to video of a Nation of Islam (NOI) event held last weekend in which the group’s leader, Louis Farrakhan, called the coronavirus vaccine a “vial of death.” Other speakers at the event falsely claimed that the vaccine has caused hundreds of deaths and thousands of serious injuries.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Wednesday that Farrakhan and other NOI members spread false information about the vaccine at the extremist group’s annual Saviours’ Day event.
The extremist group held a three-hour session Feb. 27 entitled “Covid-19: The Virus and the Vaccine.” Video of the symposium was posted on NOI’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
While Facebook removed posts linking to the event after multiple inquiries from the DCNF, the content remains on NOI’s Twitter page.
Facebook announced on Feb. 8 that it would remove posts claiming that vaccines are not effective against preventing the virus, that vaccines are less safe than contracting coronavirus, or that “vaccines are toxic, dangerous or cause autism.”
“It is death itself, created by what you call ‘Warp Speed,'” Farrakhan said at the NOI event, referring to Operation Warp Speed, the government project to develop the coronavirus vaccines.
The company said it will flag content that claims COVID-19 vaccines are “part of a deliberate or intentional attempt to cause harm or control populations.”
On Friday, a Facebook spokesperson told the DCNF that a post on NOI’s page linked to the Saviours’ Day event was found to have vio... (Read more)
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