In 2017, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that a nutrient that’s found in eggs also was linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke when consumed as a supplement. Now those findings are being warped to fuel COVID-19 misinformation.
"Scientists warn eggs are causing thousands of people to ‘suddenly’ form blood clots," the headline said.said.
"It’s most certainly not being caused by the safe, most effective, longest lasting, most studied, best forming vaccine mankind has ever produced," one snarky InstagramThese posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Multiple posts featuring this headline cast doubt on the idea that eggs were"suddenly" causing blood clots, and suggested instead that COVID-19 vaccines were to blame. The word"suddenly" has become shorthand for claims that the vaccine is responsible for someone’s death, and alludes to"Died Suddenly," the title of an anti-vaccine movie that