{"id":1465,"date":"2021-11-25T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T08:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/charity-stops-facebook-campaign-after-flood-of-toxic-comments-from-anti-vaxxers-third-sector\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T08:19:25","slug":"charity-stops-facebook-campaign-after-flood-of-toxic-comments-from-anti-vaxxers-third-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/charity-stops-facebook-campaign-after-flood-of-toxic-comments-from-anti-vaxxers-third-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity stops Facebook campaign after flood of toxic comments from anti-vaxxers &#8211; Third Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>          24 November 2021           by <a href=\"\/author\/5174\/Stephen-Delahunty\" title=\"Stephen Delahunty\" >Stephen Delahunty<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p>A charity has ended a Facebook campaign celebrating Covid-19 &#8220;heroes&#8221; after its posts were flooded with toxic comments by anti-vaxxers.<br \/>The Covid-19 support charity <a href=\"https:\/\/covidaidcharity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" rel=\"noopener\">covid:aid<\/a>&#160;said it had stopped promoting its Covid Heroes campaign on Facebook after some posters laughed and mocked someone who lost both his parents to coronavirus. They also <span>who compared the charity&rsquo;s volunteers with Nazis and&#160;<\/span>accused the charity of &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221;.<br \/>Launched in October, the Covid Heroes campaign was intended to recognise and applaud &#8220;everyday UK heroes during the pandemic&#8221;.<br \/>The charity said it allowed the British public to nominate and pay tribute to the individuals doing amazing things to help others through the coronavirus pandemic.&#160;<br \/>Each post included a personalised message of thanks to the nominated &#8220;hero&#8221;.<br \/>But soon after launching the charity began receiving a flood of negative responses.<br \/>Gavin Perrett, whose parents died in March and April 2020 after contracting the virus, was mocked by some commenters and told that his devastating personal experience of disease was false.&#160;<br \/>Perret said: &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty thick skinned, but I decided I had to step in when the attacks became personal.<br \/>&#8220;There are probably a lot more people out there like me getting attacked by these faceless trolls.&#160;<br \/>&#8220;They&#8217;re not alone: the more stories we share the more we can support each other, which is why we have to step up and talk about this.&#8221;<br \/>Other comments compared volunteer vaccinators with the Nazi &#8220;Angel of Death&#8221; Josef Mengele and warned that the charity, which plays no role in administering vaccines, would be brought to justice under the Nuremberg Code for &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221;.<br \/>Another declared the pandemic, which has led to more than 165,000 deaths in the UK, &#8220;a hoax&#8221;, while Bill Gates, communism and accusations of &#8220;following the monkeyjizz parable&#8221; were also used as reasons to discredit the charity&#8217;s campaign.&#160;<br \/>Michael MacLennan, founder and chief executive at covid:aid, said: &#8220;We weren&#8217;t pushing any kind of agenda, there was no vaccine talk, we were just trying to promote people who have been a help during a tremendously tough time.&#160;<br \/>&#8220;Despite this, a minority of anti-vaxxers immediately started flooding our posts with hateful comments.<br \/>&#8220;All we wanted to do was celebrate how great people have been to each other throughout the pandemic, which made this toxicity all the more shocking.<br \/>&#8220;We simply don&#8217;t have time to deal with and respond to the flood of negative comments we&#8217;ve received &#8211; which have far outnumbered positive responses.<br \/>&#8220;It&#8217;s a sad indicator of how many people in the UK have been consumed by conspiracy theories and deceived by disinformation &#8211; and has left us worried for what might happen next, when you see the scenes of anti-vaxxer violence in Europe.&#8221;<br \/>MacLennan said the charity doesn&#8217;t have the time to deal with the abuse and it had been highly distressing and dispiriting for everyone at the charity who had witnessed the negativity over the past month.<br \/>&#8220;We will keep the #CovidHeroes wall up so that those who wish to can still pay tribute to the everyday heroes who have been helping them throughout the pandemic,\u00a0\u00bb he said.&#160;<br \/>  \t\tRegister now to enjoy more articles and free email bulletins  \t<br \/>Join a growing community of Third Sector professionals today\t<br \/>                          <input checked=\"checked\" id=\"RememberMe\" name=\"RememberMe\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"true\">                          <input name=\"RememberMe\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"false\">                              <label for=\"RememberMe\">Stay signed in<\/label>                      <br \/>                          <a href=\"\/forgotpassword\">Forgotten password?<\/a>                    <br \/>Sponsored webcasts, surveys and expert reports from Third Sector partners<br \/>For charities today the challenge is that&#8230;<br \/>The third sector has never been under such&#8230;<br \/>This report provides an overview of the current&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"\/third-sector-insight\">More Third Sector Insight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdsector.co.uk\/charity-stops-facebook-campaign-flood-toxic-comments-anti-vaxxers\/communications\/article\/1733967\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 November 2021 by Stephen Delahunty A charity has ended a Facebook campaign celebrating Covid-19 &#8220;heroes&#8221; after its posts were flooded with toxic comments by anti-vaxxers.The Covid-19 support charity covid:aid&#160;said it had stopped promoting its Covid Heroes campaign on Facebook after some posters laughed and mocked someone who lost both his parents to coronavirus. 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