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Anti-vaxxers have mocked and smeared V-Day heroine Margaret Keenan on social media sites amid a surge of ‘toxic misinformation’. A mob of online conspiracy theorists – some claiming to be NHS staff – used Facebook to spread slurs about the 91-year-old grandmother and her family after she became the first in the world to have … Read more
A woman who is suffering from an unexplained skin condition on her feet has told how a misunderstanding over its cause sparked a slew of anti-vaccine propaganda to spread online. Patricia Chandler, from Texas, began experiencing pain in her foot in October, less than a week after she took part in a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial. When … Read more
The British Army’s Information Warfare Unit will be deployed to tackle anti-vaccine propaganda ahead of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, it has been revealed. Soldiers are already monitoring cyberspace for Covid-19 content to find out how British citizens are being targeted online, leaked documents showed. It comes amid a rise in the number of anti-lockdown and … Read more
GCHQ spies launch cyber counter-attack against anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by Russia The government is determined to tackle anti-vaxxer propaganda spread online GCHQ has launched a new campaign targeting hostile propaganda by Russia Russian propagandists are targeting the Oxford vaccine with monkey memes By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 02:01 GMT, 9 November 2020 | … Read more
Almost three years into my investigation of Andrew Wakefield, the now-disgraced former medical researcher who claimed that vaccines cause autism, Wendy Stephen stepped into my life. It was June 2006 and she introduced herself in a 600-word email as the mother of a vaccine-injured child. She told me that in 1991, her baby daughter had … Read more