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Malicious bots and trolls spread vaccine misinformation – now social media companies are fighting back

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
Malicious bots and trolls spread vaccine misinformation – now social media companies are fighting backAt least half of parents of young children report having encountered negative messages about vaccines on social media.Alexander Dummer/Unsplash, CC BY

Social media have become one of the preeminent ways of disseminating accurate information about vaccines. However, a lot of the vaccine information propagated across social media in the United States...

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