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12 people are behind most of the anti-vaxxer disinformation you see on social media
If you catch your old college roommate sharing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook, the odds are that these falsehoods are coming from one of twelve people. That’s right. Just twelve individuals. A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Vax Watch found that up to 65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter originated from twelve influencers within the anti-vaxxer movement.
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Facebook found that a vast amount of its anti-vaxx content comes from a hard core of only 111 accounts
Facebook has identified a core of 111 accounts sharing a large amount of the anti-vaccine and vaccine skeptical material on its platform, according to an internal report obtained by The Washington Post. The accounts in question were not named. According to the Post, Facebook identified them by carving up its US users into different categories and assessing how receptive they were to content skeptical of vaccines.
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Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated, survey finds
Atheists have a reputation for putting their faith in science, not divination. Now, it’s a fact. A new Pew Research Center survey shows that the godless are more likely to get vaccinated for COVID-19 compared to religious groups — as 90% of atheist respondents said that they will “definitely” or “probably” seek the shot, or have already received their first vaccine dose.
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White House working with social media giants to silence anti-vaxxers
The White House is asking social media companies to clamp down on chatter that deviates from officially distributed COVID-19 information as part of President Biden’s “wartime effort” to vanquish the coronavirus. A senior administration official tells Reuters that the Biden administration is asking Facebook, Twitter and Google to help prevent anti-vaccine fears from going viral, as distrust of the inoculations emerges as a major barrier in the fight against the deadly virus.
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UK tells social media to take down COVID myths
The British government said on Thursday it was telling social media giants to take down posts containing coronavirus disinformation over concern that many in minority communities were refusing to be vaccinated.
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Covid: 'How a picture of my foot became anti-vaccine propaganda'
A misunderstanding turned a woman's skin condition into fuel for conspiracy theories.
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‘Anti-vaxxers’ gain traction against HPV vaccine on Facebook, study finds
One of the biggest social media sites — Facebook — has allowed “anti-vaxxers” to gain a stronger voice against the use of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine, according to a new study from a media expert at the University of Missouri.
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Kanye West says he has had COVID-19, calls vaccines "the mark of the beast"
In a new interview published today (July 8), Kanye West has revealed he contracted the coronavirus in February and spoke against a COVID-19 vaccine. Following the rapper’s Independence Day announcement that he would be running for the US presidency in 2020, Ye revealed to Forbes he’d contracted COVID-19 in February and insisted his tweet was not a publicity stunt.
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Bill Gates Fears People May Reject COVID-19 Vaccine Due To Social Media Misinformation
Bill Gates fears people may reject COVID-19 vaccine due to social media misinformation. The novel disease has taken it’s toll on the world, scientists strives to create the cure for the pandemic and here are some of the promising coronavirus vaccine in the pipeline.
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On this, old adversaries agree: Connecticut must remove the religious exemption to vaccines
The sun rose again this morning on a state emerging from a “stay-at-home” spring caused by a pandemic that has claimed over 3,500 of our family members, neighbors and friends. Since COVID-19 hit Connecticut, we have seen and heard about inspiring acts of humanity, we have practiced this newly found — and lifesaving— practice of social distancing, we have self-isolated and now we all await the return to work call so we can rebuild our lives and fire up our state’s economy.
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Religious Far Right Mounts Anti-Abortion Attack on COVID-19 Vaccine
As universities and pharmaceutical companies race to put out the first COVID-19 vaccine, some sectors of the religious right are gearing up to fight it, based on tenuous ties to what they call “the abortion industry” and a biblical teaching about “the mark of the beast.”
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New study finds Trump's tweets intensify anti-vaccine attitudes among his supporters
New research has found that Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 are particularly prone to anti-vaccination attitudes and that these attitudes can be exacerbated by the president’s tweets. The findings have been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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Anti-vaxxers wage war in Conn., lawmaker calls vaccines “witches brew”
The battle over vaccinations ramped up in Connecticut this week as state lawmakers narrowly advanced a bill—with last-minute amendments—aimed at banning religious vaccine exemptions for children. If passed, the measure will no longer allow parents to cite their religious beliefs as a valid reason not to provide their children with life-saving immunizations, which are otherwise required for entry into public and private schools and daycares.
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Why there's more to the anti-vaxxing narrative than meets the eye
One recent morning in northwest London, a group of mothers and toddlers met up in a terraced house on a quiet road. Over fruit and biscuits, they discussed the weather, breastfeeding older children, and the fact that they all refuse to vaccinate their children. The parents are part of Arnica, which brands itself as a “natural health” group for parents concerned about mainstream medicine. Arnica has a Facebook group with 37,000 members, nearly four times what it was five years ago, and has become one of the largest organisations pushing an anti-vaccination message online.
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Facebook to direct vaccine searches to public health pages
Facebook is to take a stand against vaccine denial by directing people searching for information or using vaccine hashtags to web pages set up by public health bodies. People who access Facebook and Instagram pages and groups that discuss vaccines, as well as those searching or using relevant hashtags, will see an educational module about vaccine safety. Links will take them to a page provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and to the World Health Organization elsewhere in the world.
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Get Vaccinated or Leave School: 26,000 N.Y. Children Face a Choice
Jacquelynn Vance-Pauls, a real-estate lawyer in upstate New York, has a 14-year-old son with autism who was recently kicked out of his private special needs school. Her 9-year-old twins and her high-school senior are also on the verge of being expelled from their public schools.
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U of I Study: Some Vaccine Doubters Swayed by Outbreaks
MOSCOW, Idaho — Aug. 28, 2019 — People skeptical of the medical establishment who live close to a measles outbreak have a greater chance of changing their mind, according to a University of Idaho study.
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The original anti-vaxxers
Jenner’s earliest and most vocal opponents had been men of the church, who reasoned that smallpox was a God-given fact of life and death. If the Almighty had decided that someone would be smitten by smallpox, then any attempt to subvert this divine intention was blasphemy.
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Anti-extremism software to be used to tackle vaccine disinformation
Redirection tool that confronts anti-vax theories under development by UK’s Moonshot
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What makes some people more receptive to the idea of being vaccinated against infectious disease?
Fear, trust, and the likelihood of exposure are three leading factors that influence whether people are willing to be vaccinated against a virulent disease, according to a new study in the journal Heliyon, published by Elsevier.
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