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12 attorneys general call on Facebook and Twitter to remove anti-vaxxers from their services

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Key PointsA coalition of 12 state attorneys general on and to enforce their community guidelines and rid their services of misinformation being spread by accounts promoting anti-vaccine ideas."Misinformation disseminated via your platforms has increased vaccine hesitancy, which will slow economic recovery and, more importantly, ultimately cause even more unnecessary deaths," the coalition of attorneys general wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.The coalition highlights that just 12 accounts and their associated organizations are responsible for 65% of the public anti-vaccine content on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In particular, the accounts target people of color to discourage them from getting the Covid-19 vaccines, the letter said.The letter comes a day before Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai are before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the topic of misinformation on their services.In a statement, a&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;spokesperson noted that the company has removed more than 2 million pieces of misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines since February, and is "now rolling out labels to any post that discusses vaccines."The big, messy business of content moderation on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Key PointsA coalition of 12 state attorneys general on and to enforce their community guidelines and rid their services of misinformation being spread by accounts promoting anti-vaccine ideas."Misinformation disseminated via your platforms has increased vaccine hesitancy, which will slow economic recovery and, more importantly, ultimately cause even more unnecessary deaths," the coalition of attorneys general wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.The coalition highlights that just 12 accounts and their associated organizations are responsible for 65% of the...

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Salvador Rodriguez is a CNBC technology reporter covering Facebook and social media. He was previously with Reuters, Inc. Magazine, the International Business Times and the Los Angeles Times. He can be reached at salvador.rodriguez@nbcuni.com or by cell or Signal at 281-409-3516.

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