Social Media Misinformation About Covid-19 Remains on the Rise as Vaccines Start Circulating in The UK
The first viable Covid-19 vaccine was released recently by Pfizer and BioNtech. The product is already in circulation in the United Kingdom but there are many public health concerns about the safety of the vaccine. In the United Kingdom, a 90-year-old woman became the first person to be vaccinated. Despite the reports from the UK, some claim that the woman doesn't exist.
Social Media Continues to Promote Misinformation
While there is a lot of conflicting information about the vaccine, the most predominant is being championed by anti-vaxxers. They say that there is no vaccine and it is all just a scheme by Bill Gates to implant microchips in people around the world.
As absurd as this sounds, it's been getting a lot of attention on social media. The same fraction of people claims that M...