'[Vaccine misinformation] is now so pervasive that it exists just naturally within the ecosystem on Facebook and elsewhere,' Christopher Krebs said on Sunday.
Trump campaign lawyer Joe DiGenova for defamation and emotional distress after the lawyer called for his execution on Newsmax.
"There's state actors, intelligence agencies. Again, the profiteers, you have conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers. You have political activists as well... You tend to have an overlap of these different actors." Krebs said. The former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chris Krebs spoke about misinformation regarding the election and the vaccine on Sunday. Above, Krebs spoke during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC.'s role in spreading both helpful and harmful communication. He said the Biden administration and Facebook can both be right in their recent blame-shifting regarding COVID-19 misinformation.
The"Dirty Dozen," as Krebs called the accounts, have contributed to the misinformation about the vaccine, but the issue goes beyond that. Even though many of the 12 have been de-platformed, the misinformation has become part of the rhetoric around the vaccine, he said.
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