How the 65% claim spread up the chain

The man you just heard is Imran Ahmed. He is the founder and chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a UK and US registered nonprofit whose declared mission is to remove voices it labels harmful from social media platforms. On March 24th, 2021, CCDH published a 26-page document titled The Disinformation Dozen. It named 12 American citizens, physicians, scientists, authors, and journalists, and asserted that 12 of us were responsible for 65% of all vaccine-related misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Within 48 hours, that single unverified

claim was repeated on the floor of the United States Congress, cited by the Surgeon General of the United States, and used by President Joseph R. Biden to publicly accuse the platforms of killing people. I am one of the 12 named. My name is Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo. This is the record of what was said about us in Imran Ahmed's own voice and what it has cost. The 65% claim was the load-bearing wall of the entire campaign. It was also wrong. Internally, Facebook's own data team,

on the very same day CCDH released its report,