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“We don’t vaccinate in this group. It’s the foundation of becoming a crunchy mom.”
Facebook pulled back on moderation after Trump’s election, and The Guardian reports on one of the groups that benefited, a popular health-misinformation-filled community called Crunchy Moms:
Another Crunchy Moms member, Emily Loving-Rodriguez, said she had made dozens of reports to Facebook, and possibly hundreds, since she joined earlier this year. The Idaho resident has a personal interest in child welfare and misinformation, and noted a post she had seen recently in Crunchy Moms where someone said herpes could be cured with the dietary supplement zeolite. She said her reports rarely had any effect.
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