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I'm curious how much money Facebook has made over the years taking money to spread anti-vax ideas, and whether they have any plans to try and make up for it.

How many people, primarily children, have died as a result?

Why is anti-vaccination suddenly something Facebook has decided to do the right thing about, after over a decade of doing the wrong thing?

Facebook employees: how do you feel about your work being used to advocate against vaccines till today?

To reiterate: zero credit for doing the right thing after all this time profiting off doing the wrong thing.

Perhaps it has something to do with an upcoming vaccination "debate": the Covid vaccine

The nutty section of the Internet are pointing out that governments are budgeting pro-vaccination education as them preparing to spread propaganda/brainwash the masses to "take the Covid-vaccine which will finally let Bill Gates control us through 5G" (or something like that).

Hopefully some policymaker convinced Zuck not to take the anti-vaxxer ad money, and hopefully they didn't have to pay him out of the aforementioned budget for this "convincing"...

Absolutely legendary. I tip my hat to Facebook
Considering a trove of personal information FB has amassed over the years, a more appropriate retribution would be to selectively target anti-vaxxers with vaccination / pro-vaccination ads across the entire net and turn the invasiveness of the pro-vaccination ads into an exponential function depending on how invasive the anti-vaxxer being targeted are in real life.
I've already made up my mind (delay as long as possible) so I won't be impacted.