The anti-vax movement predates both the internet and the COVID-19 crisis, but social media has created a highly-efficient 'echo chamber' for anti-vaxxers.
PARIS, France – The vaccine will inject you with an electronic chip, poison you, make you sick, they say.
The video"Plandemic," which claims the COVID-19 crisis was a government setup, has already been viewed millions of times on YouTube and other streaming platforms. Despite these platforms' claims that they will limit viral anti-vax content, the false headlines have nonetheless proliferated, he said. The extent to which the pandemic has altered the misinformation landscape is not yet clear, according to David Broniatowski, from George Washington University in DC.
"There's this kind of small but very vocal group online," she said."This has just re-energized them."
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