Online safety advocates are urging Apple to follow Google’s lead and remove an app operated by an anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine group involved in COVID-19 protests around Australia | nickbonyhady
Online safety advocates are urging tech giant Apple to follow Google’s lead and remove an app operated by an anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine group involved in recent COVID-19 protests around the country
Reignite Australia has advocated protests during the pandemic that have attracted a mix of people angry about pandemics mandates, lockdowns and vaccines.The app, which is not popular, also has a feed of Reignite’s posts and a basic social network. Apple and Google took Parler off their stores in January, just after it saw a boom in conservative users unhappy with Facebook and Twitter’s fact-checking around the last US presidential election. It has since returned to Apple’s App Store.Chris Cooper, executive director of the advocacy group Reset Australia, urged Apple to follow Google in pulling down Reignite’s app, saying while the smaller platforms remained fringe they could still harbour hate speech and misinformation.
But on the encrypted messaging app Telegram it has claimed, incorrectly, that “vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds does NOTHING” and posted an image saying “Omicron is vaccine adverse reactions” as a “calculated opinion”. That is also false. Omicron is a variant of the original COVID-19 virus.In a post on Reignite’s website dated December 6, a spokeswoman said Google “wanted us to remove content they labelled as ‘Medical Misinformation’.
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