With Censorship Secured, Is Facebook Eyeing Vaccine Development?

By Jefferey Jaxen

How many of you saw Florida Congressman Bill Posey grill Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the company’s vaccine censorship directives, during a House Financial Services hearing just two weeks ago?

In case you missed it, Posey said: “I support vaccinations of children and adults, but I also support open and frank communication about the risks of vaccination…“. 

Posey told Zuckerberg. “You testified that you believe in giving people a voice. Is Facebook able to assure us it will support users’ fair and open discussions, and communications about the risks as well as the benefits of vaccinations?“

Zuckerberg said anti-vaccination users on Facebook have the same rights to expression as others, and their views aren’t censored. 

Not censored? Okay. But, Zuckerberg also went on to say that anti-vaccination voices on Facebook aren’t publicized, either.

“If someone wants to post anti-vaccination content or they want to join a group where people are discussing that, we don’t stop them from doing that,” said Zuckerberg. “But […] we don’t go out of our way to make sure our group recommendation systems show people or encourage people to join those groups. We discourage that.“

In other words, for Zuckerberg and Facebook, some views are more equal than others.

After Zuckerberg finished explaining the methods of Facebook’s censorship policy, Rep. Posey closed, saying: 

“Many of the people harmed by this policy are, in fact, parents with disabled children, and I don’t think we, or you, should be so quick to turn our backs on them. If you look at the statistics, I think you’re making a bad mistake.“

In addition to the company’s censorship announcement this past March, Facebook recently announced two updates. In September, the company stated it was “starting to roll out more ways to connect people with authoritative information about vaccines,” in the form of intrusive pop-up windows. 

If that wasn’t cause enough for concern, just this week—along with announcing its record earnings of $6.1B for the quarter—the company rolled out a new feature called Preventive Health. Via this downloadable add-on, Facebook will proactively suggest users get flu shots during flu season, and will direct users to federally qualified locations nearby that offer flu shots. 

Facebook promises to only ask for users’ age, gender, and details about location tracking. Only personnel with permission will be able to access the collected data, according to Facebook’s head of healthcare research Freddy Abnousi, MD.

Let’s put some pieces together: Facebook will censor you if you speak ‘wrongly’ about a product with known potential dangers, produced by a historically-questionable industry. Plus, Facebook is attempting to funnel users directly to pharmaceutical product distribution centers within their cities. At least there are no penalties for noncompliance…yet.  

Perpetual revenue streams secured. Marketing risk mitigated through censorship and legislation. No legal blowback. Why not get in on the action?

Tracing Facebook history down the backward path, let’s remind everybody Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla launched the Priscilla Chan (PC) Initiative in late 2015. 

The Priscilla Chan Initiative (a limited liability company, not a nonprofit foundation) is funded wholly through Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares. It invests $3 billion to ‘eliminate diseases.’ Vaccine development is a crucial component. 

In 2016, the PC initiative announced a $600 million commitment to create the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub). CZ Biohub’s leadership includes:

• Lead Investigator, Infectious Disease Peter Kim Ph.D. (2003-13, President of Merck Research Laboratories)
• Senior Advisor Don Ganem, M.D. (Former Global Head of Infectious Diseases Research at Novartis) 
• Presidents’ Advisory Group member Jonathan Weissman, Ph.D.(Amgen’s Scientific Advisory Board)

CZ Biohub’s website states its purpose is “to push forward on vaccine development.” It plans to use “advances emerging from structural biology, machine learning, and computer-assisted protein design [to] adopt ‘machine learning’ strategies to develop powerful computer programs” that will probe clinical data for failures, as well as issues with drugs, and vaccines. 

Hold that thought. There has never been a study comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations of children for long-term health outcomes (including the constant absence of Gold Standard, double-blind placebo-based safety trials). Wouldn’t it make more sense to use CZ Biohub’s expertise and advanced technological approaches to lay the foundation for real vaccine safety science? 

Why doesn’t CZ Biohub lead by example? Why doesn’t it show the community how proper science is done, before building this next-generation vaccine initiative on an already scientifically weak foundation?

Current vaccine safety science is so poor in design that, despite lacking medical school education, normal, everyday parents can easily pick apart flaws in most of the oft-cited vaccine studies proving safety. 

Similar machine learning technology to that employed by CZ Biohub has already successfully been implemented on another platform. Google’s Machine Learning Fairness algorithms have been executing a targeted censorship operation against alternative health information and vaccine truths on Google’s search engine and website rankings.

Facebook data-mines all aspects of human consciousness free of charge from its users. The trove of information Facebook collects, represents nothing short of a human data goldmine one that has been turned against unwitting users.

For example, A 2019 study in the journal PLOS ONE titled Evaluating the predictability of medical conditions from social media posts, linked patients’ electronic medical records with their social media data. It found: 

“The language people use in Facebook is predictive of their health conditions reported in an EMR, often more so than typically available demographic data.” 

The researchers go on to admit that the study raises ethical challenges as Facebook’s predictive ability expands, “often in unanticipated ways…It is doubtful that social media users fully understand the extent to which their health is already revealed through activities captured digitally.”

Thus, strictly from a business perspective, you can see how Facebook might see pushing vaccine product lines upon ill-informed populations as a low hanging fruit for easy profits. 

Compare vaccine product lines, pharmaceutical drugs, and medical devices. The latter two have several disadvantages: 

• Lengthy testing required, and pre-licensure approval times on the front end to get the products to the market 
• Legal liability for harm caused on the backend 
• PR nightmares via legal liabilities

Vaccines have none of those issues. Vaccine products come with reassurance from both Big Tech and corporate media that criticism or talk of harm caused by the products will be censored. Laws across America are racing to mandate all vaccine product lines on children and adults while removing any barrier to such ends – including parent intervention.

Given the current accuracy of the data (along with the direction of Facebook/PC Initiative/CZ Biohub complex), one can see a frightening path being laid. A path that ends with mandatory vaccination linked in frightening ways to both the U.S. Government’s REAL ID, as well as your social media account(s), to dictate travel and arrest your ability to move about the internet freely.