Vaccines · From the archive

Who Decides Who Is Heard? How One Report Labeled 12 Americans the "Disinformation Dozen"

In March 2021, a single report named 12 Americans as responsible for 65% of anti-vaccine content on social media. Within months the label was echoed by major media, built into platform moderation and repeated from the White House. Meta later said "there isn't any evidence to support this claim." So how did the label travel so far, and what does the primary record actually show?

October 24, 2026
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Vaccines, from the GreenMedInfo channel

In March 2021, a single report named 12 Americans as responsible for 65% of anti-vaccine content on social media. Within months the label was echoed by major media, built into platform moderation and repeated from the White House. Meta later said "there isn't any evidence to support this claim." So how did the label travel so far, and what does the primary record actually show?

Published October 24, 2026 · watch on YouTube.

The research behind this episode

Open each topic on GreenMedInfo to read the study abstracts it draws on.

Chapters
  1. When an accusation outruns the facts
  2. The March 2021 "Disinformation Dozen" report
  3. Inside the methodology
  4. Meta's review: 0.05% of views
  5. Why the label kept spreading
  6. Institutional laundering: the chain of citations
  7. Platforms act: deplatforming
  8. The White House, 19 July 2021
  9. The network and its funding
  10. Offline pressure and the legal response
  11. Dismissed without a trial on the facts
  12. The Targeting Tracker
  13. Why it matters: the right to evaluate claims yourself
  14. Read the record
Sayer Ji
Sayer JiFounder of GreenMedInfo (2008), the open-access natural-health research database; author of Regenerate (Hay House, 2020) and Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files (Skyhorse, 2026); chair of the Global Wellness Forum; convener of Restore the First.
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