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Facebook promised to ban COVID anti-vaxxers. The pages are still up and now they’re selling t-shirts

This story is a long read by technology reporter James Purtill. I won’t bring the full article into the blog, but here’s a taste:

When news broke last month that two elderly patients in Brisbane had been given an incorrect dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine, a motley assortment of Australian Facebook pages and groups swung into action.

Within minutes, a page with more than 52,000 followers had posted a screenshot of a news headline with superimposed text reading: “And the culling of old people begins”.

Another page with more than 30,000 followers cast doubt on whether the dosage had been an accident (it had) and claimed the government…