Vaccine hesitancy due to disinformation campaign, shows BMJ study
Social media disinformation campaigns are linked to falling vaccination rates, a study published in the online British Medical Journal for Global Health reveals.By Nabeela KhanIn the year 2019, the World Health Organisation listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health. While vaccine hesitancy is not a new phenomenon but the spread of anti-vaccination messaging on social media is growing rapidly.To analyse the impact of social media use and foreign disinformation campaigns on vaccine hesitancy around the world, a research paper published in the British Journal of Medical ...