Health
COVID-19 falsehoods online target unwitting victims – WTOL
Average people are finding their online posts or very identities hijacked by anti-vaccine activists and others peddling lies about the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dr. Michelle Rockwell lost a pregnancy in December and shared her heartache with her 30,000 Instagram followers. Weeks later, she received the COVID-19 vaccine and posted about that, too.
By February, Rockwell was getting past the grief and finally starting to experience moments of joy. But then, to her horror, social media users began using her posts to spread the false claim that she miscarried as a result of the shot.
They said horrible things to me, like how could I possibly get the vaccine,…
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