Do You Know What Vitamin K Is?

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Vitem and k shot is not a vaccine at all, just a vitem in that kids get a shot to prevent brain hemorrhaging after they're born. Unfortunately, for a long period of time, if you searched google for vitam and k, the results that you would find were not from the mao clinic or children's hospital philadelphia. Instead, you would get the healthy home economist who some random awho just writes a blog post about how she's rejected the vitem and kShot. But that content becomes popular. Its widely shared on face bookets, widely shared on twitter by the sort of networked anti vaccine movement. They all link to each other' stuff

How does disinformation spread in the age of COVID-19? It takes an expert like Renée DiResta to trace conspiracy theories back to their source. She’s already exposed how Russian state actors manipulated the 2016 election, but that was just a prelude to what she’s seeing online today: a convergence of state actors and lone individuals, anti-vaxxers and NRA supporters, scam artists and preachers and the occasional fan of cuddly pandas. What ties all of these disparate actors together is an information ecosystem that’s breaking down before our eyes. We explore what’s going wrong and what we must do to fix it in this interview with Renée DiResta, Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.