Disinformation watch: How a Bulletin story about self-spreading vaccines was used in anti-vaxxer propaganda
A screenshot from a fake story on the site Natural News that falsely asserts that COVID-19 vaccines are making unvaccinated people sick by "shedding" part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The COVID-19 vaccines in the United States do not contain live virus and cannot shed spike proteins or the coronavirus, expert say. Some media outlets pay too much attention to readership statistics; most pay at least some. And paying attention we were a week or so ago when a Bulletin story from September began driving thousands of views per day, even more traffic than when we first published it. Naturally...
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