The unwitting are the target of COVID-19 falsehoods online

Photo caption: Dr. Michelle Rockwell, who was targeted by vaccine opponents after she posted about her miscarriage online, looks at her Instagram page with her hijacked post marked as fake news […]. AP Photo / Sue Ogrocki. Article by Ali Swenson and Beatrice Dupuy. TechXplore – May 14, 2021.

Dr. Michelle Rockwell lost a pregnancy in December and shared her heartache with her 30,000 Instagram followers. Weeks later, she received the COVID-19 vaccine and posted about that, too.

By February, Rockwell was getting past the grief and finally starting to experience moments of joy. But then, to her horror, social media users began using her posts to spread the false claim that she miscarried as a result of the shot. […]

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