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Russian trolls 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety online

Study discovered several accounts, now known to belong to the same Russian trolls who interfered in the US election, tweeting about vaccines

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  • AdelleChattre
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    It turns out that many anti-vaccine tweets come from accounts whose provenance is unclear. These might be bots, human users or ‘cyborgs’ – hacked accounts that are sometimes taken over by bots.... our findings suggest that a significant portion of the online discourse about vaccines may be generated by malicious actors with a range of hidden agendas.

    The thing about McCarthyist horseshit like this rubbish is that it doesn't age well. Once people've worked out the people being demonized aren't actually fourteen feet tall boogeymen, with meat hooks for hands, hiding under your bed waiting to murder you, the cheesiness becomes embarrassingly obvious.

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