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Russian Twitter trolls have attempted to fuel the anti-vaccination debate in the U.S., posting about the issue far more than the average Twitter user last year, a study out of George Washington University has found. The “sophisticated” bots shared opinions from both sides of the anti-vaxxer debate, …
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Colleen Brown of Cleveland, Ohio, has been known to post on Facebook now and again about the dangers of not vaccinating kids—local news stories about schools closing because a student has been exposed to the measles, she says, that kind of thing. A few years back, she remembers, she shared an …
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Earlier this week New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot, MD, blamed a small group of anti-vaccine advocates for their role in an ongoing measles outbreak among the city’s Orthodox Jewish population. “This outbreak is being fueled by a small group of anti-vaxxers in these neighborhoods. …
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The online fundraising platform GoFundMe said Friday they were banning any campaigns created on their website that promoted “misinformation” about vaccines. “Campaigns raising money to promote misinformation about vaccines violate GoFundMe’s terms of service and will be removed from the platform,” …
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For Christine Vigeant, being an anti-vaxxer was bigger than just the vaccine decision. And changing her mind was bigger than just one conversation. When Vigeant was pregnant with her daughter, she had an idea of the kind of mother she wanted to be. Drawn to an alternative, attachment parenting …
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Under fire for serving up anti-vaccine propaganda, Facebook announced today that it will remove groups and pages that share anti-vaccine misinformation from its recommendations. The company also pledged that it will stop allowing advertisers to target people who Facebook’s advertising algorithm …
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Here’s what to know about current vaccine myths. Share on PinterestMeasles outbreaks have affected multiple U.S. communities in recent years. Getty images With more than 100 confirmed cases of measles in the United States already this year, vaccines are once again squarely at the center of a …
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Look up vaccinations on Facebook, as Representative Adam Schiff did last week, and the results will show a rich supply of anti-vaccination posts, pages, and groups. Such propaganda appears to be flourishing online, drawing the uninitiated into a tangled web of sources through algorithmic …
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Look up vaccinations on Facebook, as Representative Adam Schiff did last week, and the results will show a rich supply of anti-vaccination posts, pages, and groups. Such propaganda appears to be flourishing online, drawing the uninitiated into a tangled web of sources through algorithmic …
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According to the World Health Organisation, in 2018 there was a 30% increase in the number of reported measles cases worldwide. The organisation also recently named “vaccine hesitancy” as one of the top global threats of 2019. This alarming rise has been partially attributed to the anti-vaccination …
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