Author Topic: Russia trolls 'spreading vaccination misinformation' to create discord  (Read 514 times)

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Offline ABX

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Many of these fake pages out of Russia are also spreading a bunch of pseudoscience crap.

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....Vaccination was being used by trolls and sophisticated bots as a "wedge issue", said Mark Dredze from Johns Hopkins University.
"By playing both sides, they erode public trust in vaccination, exposing us all to the risk of infectious diseases," he said.
Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said cases of measles in Europe had hit a record high, with experts blaming this surge in infections on a drop in the number of people being vaccinated.
In the US, the number of children being exempted from immunisation for religious or philosophical reasons is also rising, research published in June found......

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192