Misleading
Vaccines, treatments reduced public health threat posed by COVID-19, explaining different approach in 2024 compared to 2020
Claim:
COVID-19 has been like the flu since the beginning of the pandemic
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Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2024-03-02 -
InaccurateCOVID-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
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2023-03-23 -
InaccurateModerna 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 -
InaccurateFrench 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 -
Inaccurate
mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 don’t modify humans, and don’t make them patentable or owned by any entities
Claim:
“if a human is injected with a GMO it becomes a patented piece of property from the government”, “they take away all your rights with mRNAs”
Source: TikTok, Instagram, Instagram users, 2022-11-14 -
Unsupported
Bill and Melinda Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates is fully vaccinated, including against COVID-19, despite online claims to the contrary
Claim:
Phoebe Adele Gates is “unvaccinated, not even [for] childhood vaccines”.
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2022-11-05 -
Unsupported
Abortifacient plants are dangerous, and ineffective as an abortion method
Claim:
Plants such as pennyroyal, blue and black cohosh or mugwort are an effective alternative abortion method
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2022-06-24 -
Misleading
COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing illness and death; rare infections in vaccinated people can still occur, as seen in the Celebrity Millennium cruise
Claim:
“Passengers on first fully vaccinated [...] cruise ship test positive for COVID-19. Almost like the shot is useless.”
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2021-06-11 -
Inaccurate
COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain magnetic ingredients; dose volume is too small to contain any device able to hold a magnet through the skin
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines contain metals or microchips that cause magnets to attach to the arm of vaccinated people
Source: Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, Instagram users, Facebook users, 2021-05-10 -
Inaccurate
Deaths are attributed to COVID-19 according to clinical symptoms and diagnosis; deaths that occur after vaccination are systematically reported and investigated
Claim:
“If you die within 20 days of testing positive for [COVID-19][...], you’ll be counted as a COVID death.”; vaccines are systematically dismissed as a possible cause of death.
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2021-05-02
