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Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook

Medical experts who counter misinformation are weathering coordinated attacks. Now some are fighting back

Pro-vaccine health practitioners are being subjected to coordinated campaigns of online harassment.

“The idea that we can have counter-speech when [Facebook] groups become brigade mobs is ludicrous,” said BKC Affiliate Renee DiResta, an expert in online misinformation and co-founder of Vaccinate California. “It makes just participating as an everyday citizen a high-stakes ordeal.” 

“We are at the point where doctors are creating their own anti-vaxx social media attack response teams to help other doctors,” DiResta added.

Read more at The Guardian...

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