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The online anti-vaccine movement in the age of COVID-19

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  • A new report by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has lambasted social media comp­ anies for allowing the anti-vaccine movement to remain on their plat­forms

  • “The decision to continue hosting known misinformation content and actors left online anti-vaxxers ready to pounce on the opportunity presented by coronavirus”, stated the report

  • The CCDH warned that the growing antivaccine movement could undermine the roll-out of any future vaccine against COVID-19

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The online anti-vaccine movement in the age of COVID-19 A new report by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has lambasted social media comp­ anies for allowing the anti-vaccine movement to remain on their plat­forms. The report’s authors noted that social media accounts held by so-called anti-vaxxers have increased their following by at least 7·8 million people since 2019.

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