FILE- In this March 27, 2019, file photo, measles, mumps and rubella vaccines sit in a cooler at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y. In social media’s battle against misinformation, bogus claims about the dangers of vaccines are the next target.
But it’s been a leaky quarantine. Recently, a search for “measles vaccine” still brought up, among other things, a post titled “Why We Said NO to the Measles Vaccine,” along with a sinister-looking illustration of a hand holding an enormous needle titled “Vaccine-nation: poisoning the population one shot at a time.” Search results for “vaccine safety” and “flu vaccine” can turn up posts with scientifically debunked information.
“There has been hesitancy about vaccines as long as vaccines have existed,” said Jeanine Guidry, professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies social media and vaccines. Such sentiment, dating back to the 1700s, was once confined to towns and local communities. Online, it dates back long before Facebook and Twitter. A 2002 study on Google search results found that 43% of the sites surfaced after searches for “vaccination” and “immunization” were anti-vax.
Guidry said social media amplifies these conversations and makes it easier for people to have such conversations in echo chambers that can reinforce misinformation. Her research found that that Pinterest — popular with women — has been especially susceptible to vaccine falsehoods. Nearly 75% of vaccine-related “pins” were against immunization in her 2015 study, compared with roughly a quarter on Twitter .
What part of a 100% vaccination rate on a quarantined-at-sea navy ship where everyone is getting the mumps is NOT THE FAULT OF THE FUCKING VACCINE MAKER. Do your damn homework. Get a Pulitzer. Figure out where your misinformation really lies. folllowthemoney eppursimuove
If they are not vaccinated that is their issue if you & your children are vaccinated nothing to worry about. It is a choice to be vaccinated if they don’t get it they know the risk.
the only misinformation is from big pharma lying to you telling you they are safe. never been tested against an unvaccinated control group = never been safety tested. if you want to PROVE they are safe then lets have a real open safety study.
*due to higher illegal immigration rates Fixed it.
Ignorance you can fix. Willful ignorance is another matter. You can lead a man to knowledge but you can't make him think.
Bring back the laws for vaccination before school.
Confirmed cause of whooping cough present in Arkansas. They actually giving other unvaccinated kids antibiotics
There isn't good advertising for vaccinations like there is for food with additives and chemicals in them and deodorant or auto exhaust, radio waves, cell phone emissions household chemicals you name it that people take for granted because of the consumer friendly PR out there.
Millennials, am I right?
Idiots think the world is flat and you think they understand vaccinations?
Screw them, let them get smallpox, polio and all those yummy little fellas. Quarantine their ass and their little disease spreaders. If you want to be mean about it, let them pray for a cure instead of an actual cure.
It should be televised shots from the CDC on public television
Illegal immigrants never get vaccinations because they fear getting sent back. That's why so many diseases are coming back. Like that new one that has all the best doctors stumped in the USA. It leaves kids paralyzed.
Try to separate news from opinion please.
What about people who thing God will did their kids of measles so they just don’t bother?
Darwinism
With some dangerous childhood diseases making a comeback due to ....... ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION coming in from 3rd world countries carrying diseases formerly erradicated here in the states. There. Fixed that intro
Antivaxxers are a public health hazard! This is why we need to be louder than the antivaxxers and make sure everyone knows vaccines work!
yet there is a govt vaccine injury compensation fund. 🤔
As a parent of a child with autism who knows a lot of other parents with autistic children, I have yet to meet a single parent who believes vaccines cause autism.
I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this, but stupid is both highly contagious and damn nigh impossible to cure
Abortion Shielding your children from Autism
Could it possibly be the millions of undocumented immigrants that are flooding our country daily from “shit hole” countries? Just a thought
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Ban every anti-vaccine account, not just the bots. Dispelling conspiracies without qualifications should not be tolerated.
This is intentional censorship and promotes a modern-day fascism. If these companies don't want to start being called fascist, they should start reinstating my constitutionally protected right to speak as I choose, when and where.
This is Because of immigration anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it
Antivax are just a dangerous plague
My parents were extreme anti-AMA types. Did not trust doctors nearly at all and I was rarely taken to a doctor to a fault. However, when it came to school vaccinations, dad was like, 'Well, I lost a year in school because of smallpox; horrible disease.' I got vaccinations.
It has also been reported that Russians are behind the antivaxer spread of misinformation.
MAGA - Measles Are Great Again
Facebook warriors 👏👏👏
the Dem's love the open border policy tho and how about the refugee program where refugees don't need to be vaccinated or vetted BuildTheWall
Because people in this country have taken Stupid Pills.
Can’t believe vaccinations need a social media push
BuildTheWall
Idiots gonna idiot
Anti-vaxxers should all be free to not vaccinate their children as long as they all agree to live on an isolated island or Water World like flotilla.
What's making kids sick and affecting them cognitively isn't vaccines. It's pollution plastic pesticides Ban glyphosate Chlorpyrifox Neonicotinoids
I say they are making a comeback because we have mass unregulated immigration.. BuildTheWall
Social media isn't battling, people are battling each other on social media.
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