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Summary
Sources
- Russian trolls 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety online - Guardian, August 23, 2018
- 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.
- Parents beware: Russian trolls sought to sow vaccine discord - Star Tribune
- A respected medical journal just published a disturbing warning to parents and doctors. Russian trolls are pushing divisive vaccine safety information on social media.
- “Weaponized Health Communication” is how the authors of the new American Journal of Public Health analysis summed up the online efforts to sow doubts about the immunizations that prevent measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and other serious childhood diseases. “Weaponized” is not an exaggeration."
- Russian trolls, bots 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety, scientists say - Fox News
- Bots and Russian trolls spread false information about vaccines on Twitter in order to sow discord and propagate malicious content prior to and during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a new study.
- Scientists made the discovery while researching how social media communications for public health workers could be improved.
- Russian trolls, bots 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety, scientists say - CNN
- The recent research project was intended to study how social media and survey data can be used to better understand people's decision-making process around vaccines. It ended up unmasking some unexpected key players in the vaccination debate: Russian trolls."
- Russia trolls 'spreading vaccination misinformation' to create discord - BBC
- Vaccination was being used by trolls and sophisticated bots as a "wedge issue", said Mark Dredze from Johns Hopkins University.
- Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Finds - The New York Times, August 23, 2018
- Most of the anti-vaccine tweets repeated well-known but long-discredited rumors, such as those that vaccines cause autism or contain dangerous amounts of mercury. Others accused pharmaceutical companies of caring only about profits, not children.
- Russian trolls and Twitter bots exploit vaccine controversy - Washington Post, August 23, 2018
- In another attack on Western society, Russian trolls sow doubt about ... - Los Angeles Times
- Russian trolls and online bots churned out reams of messages undermining confidence in vaccine science, according to two recent reports.
- Russian trolls and bots fuelled anti-vaccination debate - The Telegraph, August 23, 2018
- Russian trolls accused of spreading anti-vaccine propaganda online - Mashable, August 23, 2018
- Anti-vaccine myths are being promoted by social media bots and Russian trolls, stydy finds - The Independent, August 23, 2018
- That Anti-Vaccination Message May Be From A Russian Bot Or Troll - Fortune, August 25, 2018
- Russian Trolls Have Found an Insidious Way to Turn People Against Vaccines - Science Alert, August 24, 2018
- Russian trolls pushed divisive content over vaccines, researchers say - NBC News, August 23, 2018
- Bots and Russian trolls influenced vaccine discussion on Twitter, research finds - Science Daily, August 23, 2018
- Russian trolls 'promoting discord' over vaccines - DW, August 24, 2018
Scientific
- Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate - American Journal of Public Health, , Published online ahead of print August 23, 2018
Video
- Study: Russian trolls stoked US vaccine debates - CNN, August 25, 2018
- Russian Trolls Fuelled Vaccine Debate - Bloomberg, August 24, 2018
Analysis
- Why Russian trolls stoked US vaccine debates - Jacqueline Howard, CNN, August 24, 2018
- Why a Russian Anti-Vaccine Trolling Operation Failed to Resonate on Twitter - Fortune, August 24, 2018
Examples
- International scientists have found autism's cause. What will Americans do? - J.B. Handley, April 2, 2018
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