🚨New post from @ViralityProject — "Fauxi Fauxi: Undermining Authoritative Health Sources" Our analysts dig into common tropes used by anti-vaccine influencers to delegitimize established public health voices, most recently with Fauci's FOIA'd emails 1/4 viralityproject.org/rapid-response…
We break down false & misleading narratives used on recurring targets: Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and the FDA. An example of these narratives is the false claim that the CDC overreported cases to impose a stringent lockdown but now underrreports to inflate vaccine efficacy rates. 2/4
While specific campaigns to undermine authoritative sources vary, each carries the broader goal of undermining the validity of the expertise of health institutions. Anti-vaccine activists aim to delegitimize their scientific "objectivity" in the eyes of the American public. 3/4
The repeated, persistent undermining of authoritative health sources has a more insidious impact on the health information ecosystem, continually creating more space for sources of misinformation to thrive. Read the full post here: viralityproject.org/rapid-response… (4/4)
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