‘The pandemic was a perfect storm for the propagation of misinformation,’ said Krisztina Stump who leads the European Commission’s work on disinformation.
EWHProQlhX- Center for Countering Digital Hate December 22, 2020
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In response, US President Joe Biden urged social media companies to tackle dangerous misinformation which he said is slowing efforts to curb the pandemic even in countries where vaccines are readily available.Īnti-vaxxers have been meeting secretly to plan how to stop the Covid vaccine.Īnd showing how you can help to counter it. It was, they argued, an opportunity for vaccine opponents to increase their influence and ultimately undermine trust in authority. Some began working with the WHO Vaccine Safety Net, the European Commission and others.ĬOVID-related myths emerged and spread quickly, sometimes bringing anti-vaccine activists together with other conspiracy theorists opposed to masks, restrictions and even 5G mobile phone technology.Īnti-vaccine groups held meetings to coordinate their campaigns before COVID-19 vaccines could be introduced. The big players also faced accusations that they prefer a hands-off approach because taking action might lock them out of a $1 billion advertising industry. Prior to the pandemic, tech giants were already under fire for taking a laissez-faire approach to containing misinformation about vaccines. 💉 Having representatives of their own generation is key for young people, in order to build trust in #vaccines says #VaccinesWork #YC4PV #Youth4Vaccines /aciSRNrmOu- ThinkYoung September 13, 2019 12-months later, Dr Wolynn had developed a plan to mobilise health professionals to push back against anti-vaccine harassment. Later the same year we met US-based paediatrician Dr Todd Wolynn whose online channels had come under attack from anti-vaccine campaigners. The winner, Dr Mihai Craiu, a paediatrician in Romania, uses his enormous Facebook following to share science-based information on immunisation (and other children’s health issues). In 2018, we ran a Europe-wide contest to find #VaccineChampions. In the meantime, slowly but surely, vaccine advocates have emerged. This had left a vacuum which was filled by anti-vaccine voices. Vaccines Today was founded in the wake of the 2009/2010 H1N1 pandemic, amid concerns that vaccine advocates were absent from online conversations about vaccines. This was facilitated by the fastest, farthest reaching communications networks in history – social media channels.īut before we jump into the COVID-19 pandemic and look to the future, let’s first take a step back. So, when the biggest global pandemic in living memory was declared in March 2020, anti-vaccine ideas spread quickly. Uncertainty can amplify vaccine hesitancy and is fertile ground for conspiracy theories. That requires some degree of trust in health professionals, scientists, regulators and governments. We shouldn’t be surprised: to accept a vaccine, people need to trust that the substance injected into their arm is safe and that it will work. Vaccine hesitancy is as old as vaccination.
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