Misinformation analysts say Twitter, which stopped policing Covid-19 misinformation back in October 2022, has helped to supercharge the ‘sudden death’ vaccine narrative.
A CCDH analysis of nearly 60,000 tweets posted between November 9, when the new verification scheme
, and December 12 found that 30 percent of posts from Twitter Blue users containing the word “vaccine” featured misinformation.Died Suddenly. The movie was produced by Stew Peters, a right-wing radio host known for spreading conspiracy theories, and premiered on November 21. Its content, which has been, threaded together dozens of news stories about people who died unexpectedly with montages of people collapsing to claim that Covid vaccines are killing people en masse. Some of the deaths featured, including Gough’s, were demonstrably unrelated to vaccination.
While users can see how Twitter accounts gained the checkmark via their profiles, it’s not immediately obvious while scrolling content. “When a piece of propaganda has a blue tick next to it, people assume it’s something that at the very least has achieved prominence on merit,” CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed tells WIRED. “Peters did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.
The #DiedSuddenly hashtag trended on Twitter after the film’s release and now appears alongside tens of thousands of tweets about people’s deaths.significantly impacted the spread of Covid misinformation by creating a focal point for other conspiracy theories and their promoters.
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