Scientologist Rizza Islam: Super Spreader of COVID-19 Misinformation

McGill University Office for Science and Society:

A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media

The Disinformation Dozen generates two thirds of anti-vaccination content on Facebook and Twitter


A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media


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Perhaps more troubling are the remaining members of this influential social media family: Rizza Islam and Kevin Jenkins. Their misinformation has been focused on the African-American population, which has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. The CCDH report points out that Jenkins used the Facebook live-streaming feature last January to broadcast a speech to his digital followers. The video has now been deleted, but in it, the CCDH reports that Jenkins said of the COVID-19 vaccines: “They are spending a trillion dollars to convince you [the Black community] that it’s OK to kill yourselves [with the COVID vaccine].” Meanwhile, Islam has an Instagram account called “Not Another Tuskegee Experiment” which compares the use of the COVID-19 vaccine in African-Americans to the inhumane treatment of Black men with syphilis who were left untreated to essentially see what would happen.

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Science-Based Medicine:

The “Disinformation Dozen” spreading anti-vaccine messaging on social media

Just twelve individuals are generating two-thirds of all of the anti-vaccine messaging on Twitter and Facebook
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The “Disinformation Dozen” spreading anti-vaccine messaging on social media


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The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which published the Anti-Vax Playbook, recently published a new report that analyzes anti-vaccine messaging on social media. It identified 12 individuals it calls the “Disinformation Dozen” who they have calculated are responsible for up to 65% of the anti-vaccine content on Facebook and Twitter:

1. Joseph Mercola
2. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger
4. Sherri Tenpenny
5. Rizza Islam
6. Rashid Buttar
7. Erin Elizabeth
8. Sayer Ji
9. Kelly Brogan
10. Christiane Northrup
11. Ben Tapper
12. Kevin Jenkins

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New Statesman:

Are just 12 people responsible for spreading more than half of all Covid-19 vaccine disinformation?

The “Disinformation Dozen” are prolific in the online anti-vaxx movement – but Facebook and Twitter don’t appear to be trying to supress them.


Are just 12 people responsible for spreading more than half of all Covid-19 vaccine disinformation?


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The other accounts include long-standing conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxx-focused physicians. Some are in personal and professional partnerships with each other, and have connected social media profiles. Others, such as Rizza Islam – who encourages vaccine hesitancy among an African-American audience – adopt a more targeted approach.

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PORCAST: Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam joins The Tory Lowe Show

4/1/2021

Brother Rizza Islam joins The Tory Lowe show and gives us the details that he has found out about the pandemic and the covid-19 vaccination shot.

Duration: 00:46:59


Listen to The Tory Lowe Show on TuneIn


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NPR: The Most Popular J&J Vaccine Story On Facebook? A Conspiracy Theorist Posted It

Updated April 15, 20212:39 PM ET
Heard on Morning Edition


The Most Popular J&J Vaccine Story On Facebook? A Conspiracy Theorist Posted It


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Rizza Islam, another prominent promoter of vaccine hesitancy, especially within the Black community, tweeted conspiracy theories about the Johnson & Johnson news to his 54,000 followers on Twitter. (Islam was recently removed from Facebook.)

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Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam on "How To Make Your Degree Work For You."

In collaboration with the Alabama A&M University Honors Program.

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Brother Rizza Islam's website says that he, "attended Compton college majoring in political science and did not graduate by choice." See:


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Compton College is a two-year community college that offers an Associate Degree.

So, Brother Rizza Islam chose not to graduate from community college, and he is going to lecture people on how to make their degree work for them?

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Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam featured in story about Covid-19 Vaccines: "Disinformation Dozen - The Sequel."


Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)


www.counterhate.com

Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

The Center for Countering Digital Hate stops the spread of online hate and disinformation through research, public campaigns & policy advocacy.
www.counterhate.com www.counterhate.com


Disinformation Dozen - The Sequel


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Leading anti-vaxx influencer Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam promotes Jew-hate to thousands.


The Jewish Chronicle: Leading anti-vaxx influencers promote Jew-hate to hundreds of thousands


https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/leadi...te-jew-hate-to-hundreds-of-thousands-1.516228


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Several tweets visible on Rizza Islam’s feed - which has around 54,700 followers - contain claims Jewish people control sectors such as banking and the media.

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CCDH chief Imran Ahmed says some anti-vaxxers are “introducing new audiences to old conspiracy theories and hatred” in addition to “putting the success of the vaccine rollout in jeopardy.”

“It’s no surprise to see many of the most prominent superspreaders of anti-vaccine disinformation have also engaged in antisemitism.

“The worldview preached by anti-vaxxers, which states that the global pandemic and vaccine programmes were all planned by a shadowy global elite, are just a step away from prominent antisemitic conspiracy theories,” he told the JC.

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Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother. Rizza Islam featured in "The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters," which discusses his upcoming criminal trial.

Medium: The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters


The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters


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5. Rizza Islam

Rizza Islam’s anti-vaccine posts aim to spread vaccine hesitancy amongst African Americans. While Facebook removed Rizza Islam’s Facebook Page in February, he continues to post anti-vaccine messages from his Instagram and Twitter accounts.


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Islam intentionally discourages fellow African Americans from being vaccinated. His dangerous rhetoric contributes to the increased risk of death this sector of the population faces from the coronavirus. His Twitter account is a carefully managed stream of vaccine misinformation, focusing on the covid vaccine. Every person he turns away from the vaccine is a potential death at his hand in a community he claims to serve.

He’s no stranger to manipulating healthcare for his own profit. In 2015 the executive director of World Literacy Crusade (WLC), then Hanan Islam, Ronnie Steven Islam (AKA Rizza Islam), and Hanan’s adult children were arrested for Medi-Cal fraud and insurance fraud for billing for a detox program. The Compton, Californian offices of the WLC housed a drug detox program using “dry heat sweat therapy.

This Jan 4 article explains what’s awaiting a very deserving con artist. Hanan and Rizza Islam get trial date for $4 million Medi-Cal fraud at Scientology rehab. At a pretrial conference, the trial was set for May 20 in the case, which seeks felony convictions against Hanan Islam, 61, and three of her children, including her son Ronnie “Rizza” Islam, 30. If you're an African American, Rizza Islam is not your friend.

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Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam calls Gayle King a "sellout."





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1. We don’t care. 2. No sellouts in our community will be listened to. 3. We never forgot how you & #Oprah attempted to throw dirt on & disrespect the legacy of brother #kobebryant in your interview with sister Lisa Leslie….. Fauci is a devil along with every single one of those who pushed these experimental shots onto the masses of the human family! #RizzaIslam #wearefarrakhan #intellectualxtremist

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Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam named part of anti-vaccine industry before Congressional Committee

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Testimony before the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee

Hearing Titled:

Vaccinations and the Economic Recovery

Celine Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center

CEO, Just Human Productions

Written testimony: April 11, 2021

Oral testimony: April 14, 2021


https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/i...&File_id=494DDE05-D154-4E29-9F1C-DB4C6409AF46


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H. The Anti-vaccine Industry

Even as we try to reach out to communities with the right messengers and right messages to build vaccine confidence, we also need to address the proliferation of misinformation about COVID and COVID vaccines in the mainstream media and online. Even relatively low-level exposure to online misinformation can significantly reduce vaccine-seeking.

It’s low-hanging fruit to deplatform the biggest amplifiers of anti-vaccine misinformation, their organizations, and those they fund. The Center for Countering Digital Hate has identified twelve repeat offenders who are responsible for 65% of COVID vaccine misinformation online: Joseph Mercola, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Sherri Tenpenny, Rizza Islam, Rashid Buttar, Erin Elizabeth, Sayer Ji, Kelly Brogan, Christiane Northrup, Ben Tapper, and Kevin Jenkins. Their organizations include the Children’s Health Defense, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), and the Millions Against Medical Mandates. Many make money marketing books, DVDs, and courses about vaccines or sell dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines. In short, they stand to profit from the dangerous misinformation they are spreading.

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Forbes: De-platform Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam And The Rest Of The Disinformation Dozen

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Forbes: De-platform The Disinformation Dozen

Jul 19, 2021,
07:30am EDT
Steven Salzberg


De-platform The Disinformation Dozen


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I’ve been writing about anti-vaxxers for a dozen years now, warning of the threat to public health that they represent. Today, though, the threat is far greater than it was in the past, because now we’re in the midst of a deadly pandemic, and vaccines are our only tool out of it. Merely educating the public on the benefits of vaccines isn’t working in the face of a deluge of misinformation from anti-vaxxers. It’s time to take away their platforms.

A new report from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) reveals that 65% of the anti-vaccine disinformation online can be traced to just twelve people. This offers hope that we can actually do something: by removing a tiny number of accounts, millions of lives can be saved. The social media platforms have the power to do this, and they could do it virtually overnight.

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So who are the Disinformation Dozen? Here they are:

1. Joseph Mercola

2. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger

4. Sherri Tenpenny

5. Rizza Islam

6. Rashid Buttar

7. Erin Elizabeth

8. Sayer Ji

9. Kelly Brogan

10. Christiane Northrup

11. Ben Tapper

12. Kevin Jenkins

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White House attacks Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam as one of the "Disinformation Dozen" on Covid-19 vaccines.

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Instagram post by Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam:




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Opoyi: Who are the 'disinformation dozen' rapped by the White House?

* The White House clamped down on Silicon Valley on Thursday to address vaccination disinformation

*They have singled out 12 persons branding the "disinformation dozen"

The majority of the 12 people are active on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

By Rishika Singh


Who are the 'disinformation dozen' rapped by the White House?


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The White House singled out 12 persons branded as the "disinformation dozen", who are held responsible for a large amount of misinformation regarding COVID-19 in an effort to clamp down on Silicon Valley on Friday to address vaccination disinformation, .

"There are about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.

That figure comes from the organisation, Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which designated roughly a dozen people as "super-spreaders" of anti-vaccine disinformation in a report released in March.

The majority of the 12 people are active on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

According to the research, they frequently avoid breaking social media site restrictions by swapping code words or hand signs for words. The "disinformation dozen" has a significant social media following and generates content at a high and regular pace, according to the research.

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Rizza Islam

Rizza Islam's anti-vaccine posts attempt to increase vaccination apprehension amongst African Americans. Rizza Islam's Facebook page was taken down by Facebook in February, but he continues to promote anti-vaccine statements on Instagram and Twitter
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A video report:

Fascism: White House just mentioned Rizza Islam & 11 others




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