The Anti Vaccine Movement - What Are the Trends?

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The anti faxine movement, instead of being. the sort of niche issue that you're an expert on,. has become relevant to the entire world's attention. Youw been hearing from some of the platforms that there's actually peremptive kind of conspiracy theories about a future vaccine and getting as to be avoiding taking it. What most concerns you about this? And what what of the transit your you're seeingand how it's different from the kind of previous way the information's been spread.

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.