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Facebook deletes Pete Evans’s Instagram account over repeated coronavirus and vaccine misinformation
Celebrity chef Pete Evans has been permanently booted off Instagram for sharing misinformation about coronavirus and vaccines.
Key points:
- Pete Evans’s Facebook page was removed last year, but he continued posting misinformation on Instagram, which Facebook owns
- Facebook last week expanded the list of false claims it will remove, adding more about coronavirus and the vaccines
- The company no longer tolerates false claims the virus is man-made, that the disease is safer than the vaccine, that vaccines are toxic, dangerous, or cause autism
Facebook confirmed it deleted Mr Evans’s account on the popular picture-sharing platform on Wednesday.
The account had hundreds of thousands of followers.
“We removed Pete Evans’s account for repeatedly sharing…
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