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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
At 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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