Bots and Russian trolls spread misinformation about vaccines on Twitter to sow division and distribute malicious content before and during the American presidential election, according to a new study.
Scientists at George Washington University, in Washington DC, made the discovery while trying to improve social media communications for public health workers, researchers said. Instead, they found trolls and bots skewing online debate and upending consensus about vaccine safety.
The study discovered several accounts, now known to belong to the same Russian trolls who interfered in the US election, as well as marketing and malware bots, tweeting about vaccines.
Russian trolls played both sides, the researchers said, tweeting pro- and anti-vaccine content in a politically charged context.
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Getting mine through work next week - love the fact they take the time to organize it and recognize the value in having their employees get vaccinated. That said, the turnout is usually pretty small as a % of employees in our facility and I hate to say it seems to be very divided along ethnic lines. Of course that might just mean that group are taking their families and doing it elsewhere rather than singly at work.
Hopefully both my kids will get theirs done at UCalgary, they have a clinic for anyone on campus which is also a great idea.
40,000 Cases of Measles in Europe and 37 Deaths so far. With the Anti-Vaccine movement reducing Vaccination rates this could lead to a global epidemic.
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40,000 Cases of Measles in Europe and 37 Deaths so far. With the Anti-Vaccine movement reducing Vaccination rates this could lead to a global epidemic.
Time to end this madness and start quarantining people who won't vaccinate.
40,000 Cases of Measles in Europe and 37 Deaths so far. With the Anti-Vaccine movement reducing Vaccination rates this could lead to a global epidemic.
Measles cases confirmed in Manitoba's Interlake region
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The public health office believes the first patient, who's not even one year old, contracted the virus outside the country. The second case was in a person who had close contact with the infant, the news release says.
