Inaccurate
COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause miscarriages or stillbirths contrary to misleading interpretations of VAERS data
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of miscarriages and stillbirths
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Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2023-03-23 -
Inaccurate
Vaccination recruits both the innate and adaptive immune system; COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children
Claim:
“clearly [COVID-19] vaccines are dangerous for kids”, they cause myocarditis; children are protected from COVID-19 by innate immunity which is bypassed by vaccination
Source: Instagram, Michelle Perro, Joseph Mercola, 2023-03-13 -
Misleading
U.S. mortality rate analysis by Josh Stirling is misleading; current data don’t show an association between COVID-19 vaccines and increased mortality
Claim:
“The more doses on average you have in a region within the United States, the bigger increase in mortality that region has had in 2022 when compared to 2021”
Source: Instagram, The Epoch Times, Josh Stirling, 2023-01-24 -
Misleading
Viral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation
Claim:
We were lied about “COVID-19 numbers”, treatments, natural immunity, and the origin of the virus; COVID-19 vaccines and control measures “didn’t work”
Source: Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-02-28 -
Misleading
Infection-induced immunity is more unpredictable and poses a higher risk than vaccine-induced immunity
Claim:
“natural immunity provides superior protection to experimental vaccines; “They lied and said Natural Immunity wasn’t better than [vaccine]-induced immunity”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-02-17 -
Inaccurate
Moderna didn’t already produce COVID-19 mRNA vaccines before the pandemic; statement by CEO of Moderna misinterpreted
Claim:
Moderna was already producing COVID-19 vaccines before the beginning of the pandemic
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2023-02-09 -
Flawed reasoning
Pre-human changes in climate do not negate contemporary human influence on modern warming, contrary to implication in popular Instagram post
Claim:
Climate changed naturally in prehistoric eras, modern climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-01-17 -
Unsupported
The Pfizer bivalent vaccines are very unlikely to increase the risk of ischemic stroke, contrary to claims on social media
Claim:
The Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine causes strokes
Source: Twitter/X, Instagram, Social media users, 2023-01-14 -
Inaccurate
French political advisor Jacques Attali didn’t call for world depopulation through pandemics or vaccines
Claim:
Attali wrote “the future will be about finding a way to reduce the population”, elites will “find a real cause, a pandemic” after having “taken care of having panned the treatment”
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2022-12-21 -
Misleading
Contrary to viral Instagram videos, COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against severe disease
Claim:
Vaccine effectiveness has fallen from 100% to 20%; the early reported vaccine effectiveness figures were lies
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2022-12-01
