A comedy club has axed its pilot event after anti-vaccine passport trolls bombarded the venue with ‘4,000 hate messages’ despite the trial not using jab certificates. The Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool said it was subjected to a ‘hate campaign’ online after reports suggested it was working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media … Read more
Anti-vaxxers have mocked and smeared V-Day heroine Margaret Keenan on social media sites amid a surge of ‘toxic misinformation’. A mob of online conspiracy theorists – some claiming to be NHS staff – used Facebook to spread slurs about the 91-year-old grandmother and her family after she became the first in the world to have … Read more
A woman who is suffering from an unexplained skin condition on her feet has told how a misunderstanding over its cause sparked a slew of anti-vaccine propaganda to spread online. Patricia Chandler, from Texas, began experiencing pain in her foot in October, less than a week after she took part in a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial. When … Read more
British Army’s Information Warfare Unit will be deployed to tackle anti-vaccine propaganda ahead of jab rollout Leaked documents revealed soldiers are already monitoring cyberspace The British Army’s Information Warfare Unit will tackle anti-virus propaganda It comes amid a rise in the number of anti-lockdown protests around Britain The defence cultural specialist unit was launched in … Read more
GCHQ spies launch cyber counter-attack against anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by Russia The government is determined to tackle anti-vaxxer propaganda spread online GCHQ has launched a new campaign targeting hostile propaganda by Russia Russian propagandists are targeting the Oxford vaccine with monkey memes By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 02:01 GMT, 9 November 2020 | … Read more
Almost three years into my investigation of Andrew Wakefield, the now-disgraced former medical researcher who claimed that vaccines cause autism, Wendy Stephen stepped into my life. It was June 2006 and she introduced herself in a 600-word email as the mother of a vaccine-injured child. She told me that in 1991, her baby daughter had … Read more