Don't be fooled by foreign attacks. Listen to the experts - our doctors, not Russian twitter bots.....Mule and Goober.
Social media bots and Russian trolls have been spreading disinformation about vaccines on Twitter to create social discord and distribute malware, US researchers say.
Troll accounts that had attempted to influence the US election had also been tweeting about vaccines, a study says.
Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency", the study found.
It examined thousands of tweets sent between 2014 and 2017.
Vaccination was being used by trolls and sophisticated bots as a "wedge issue", said Mark Dredze from Johns Hopkins University.
"By playing both sides, they erode public trust in vaccination, exposing us all to the risk of infectious diseases," he said.
Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said cases of measles in Europe had hit a record high, with experts blaming this surge in infections on a drop in the number of people being vaccinated.
In the US, the number of children being exempted from immunisation for religious or philosophical reasons is also rising, research published in June found.
The old rule stands, be suspicious of anything on the net. (unless it’s in the ABB forums 
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Listen. . .
That's right, listen . . . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJlyapt6OY
[Edited on 8/24/2018 by BrerRabbit]
