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An anti-vaxxer group is suing Facebook for putting fact-checking labels on anti-vaccine posts

An anti-vaccination group is suing Facebook for applying fact-check labels to posts that contain misinformation or falsehoods about vaccines.

Children's Health Defense — the anti-vaxxer group lead by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — accuses Facebook of violating the First Amendment, a law that doesn't apply to private companies. Anti-vaxxers have relied on social media like Facebook to spread false information about vaccines based on junk science for years, but Facebook started cracking down on anti-vaccine misinformation last year.Facebook is facing a new lawsuit from anti-vaccination activists who claim the company is unfairly censoring them by applying fact-check labels to posts containing false information about vaccines., filed a lawsuit against Facebook in northern California Monday.

Anti-vaxxers have relied on social media like Facebook to spread false theories about vaccines based on junk science for years. Most anti-vaxx content on Facebook originates from a handful of fringe sources, according to an investigation by

 

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