Exhibit 1145 ยท Company statement
How We're Taking Action Against Vaccine Misinformation Superspreaders (Meta newsroom)
Since the beginning of the pandemic across our entire platform, we have removed over 3,000 accounts, Pages and groups for repeatedly violating our rules against spreading COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation and removed more than 20 million pieces of content for breaking these rules.
Meta's public answer to criticism by Biden administration officials of vaccine misinformation on Facebook. It says Meta had worked with health organizations 'since January 2020' to identify and remove COVID-19 misinformation, gives its own removal totals, and says 12 people were responsible for about 0.05 percent of views of vaccine-related content.
- Source
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook)
- Date
- 18 August 2021
- Quoted from
- Post of 18 August 2021, paragraph beginning 'Focusing on these 12 individuals'
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/taking-action-against-vaccine-misinformation-superspreaders/
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit