The worrying poll comes amid a dramatic rise in anti-vaxxer disinformation spreading online.
The troubling findings come amid a dramatic rise in anti-vaccine disinformation being spread online since the outbreak of coronavirus vaccine, a new poll has found.
With scientists predicting that more than three-quarters of the population would need to be vaccinated to successfully suppress the virus, the findings could represent a threat to the ability to contain Covid-19. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at the time that the UK was ‘suddenly going in the wrong direction’ and that ‘people have been listening to that superstitious mumbo jumbo on the internet, all that anti-vax stuff’.
It found they were publishing false conspiracy theories, including that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had created the coronavirus pandemic, that vaccines cause Covid-19, and that tests for the coronavirus vaccine had caused women to become infertile.
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