Misleading
Misleading Instagram posts use news headlines out of context to imply COVID-19 vaccines increase COVID-19 mortality risk
Claim:
Higher COVID-19 vaccination rates in White people are related to higher COVID-19 death rates
Articles tagged with
Vaccine
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Source: Instagram, Carl Higbie, David Harris Jr., 2023-08-22 -
InaccurateConspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors
Claim:
Doctors murdered to protect Big Pharma profits and silence holistic health practitioners
Source: TikTok, Katryna Benson, 2023-07-04 -
Flawed reasoningEngland mortality data shows a lower COVID-19 mortality risk among vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated ones, contrary to claim by Slay News
Claim:
“the Covid injections are not effective” because the large majority of deaths involving COVID-19 occurred among vaccinated individuals
Source: Slay News, Frank Bergman, 2023-08-06 -
InaccurateWhy Alex Jones’ claim on Infowars that COVID-19 vaccines cause meat allergy is baseless
Claim:
“Moderna and Pfizer shots have a bovine protein in them that then creates an autoimmune response in those that take the shot so that many of them can no longer eat beef”
Source: Infowars, Alex Jones, 2023-08-07 -
InaccurateVideo about blank COVID-19 vaccine insert falsely implies there are no safety data for COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
Blank COVID-19 vaccine safety inserts show there are no safety and effectiveness studies for these vaccines
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2023-08-03 -
InaccurateTestimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses
Claim:
“All these vaccines are causing harm to our kids”; “The fully unvaccinated kids are always healthier”; “vaccines are causing chronic disease in America”
Source: Twitter/X, Steve Kirsch, 2023-06-09 -
IncorrectVAERS data don’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are deadly; Steve Kirsch’s claim to the contrary relied on flawed analysis
Claim:
VAERS data are “crystal clear”: “the COVID vaccines are killing people”
Source: Substack, Steve Kirsch, 2023-08-06 -
MisleadingSwiss study doesn’t show that Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is dangerous for the heart, John Campbell and The Gateway Pundit exaggerated the study’s conclusions
Claim:
“1 in 35 people showed signs of heart damage after taking the Moderna COVID19 vaccine”; it is a “kill shot”; taking “this kind of risk, it’s just complete madness”
Source: YouTube, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, John Campbell, 2023-07-26 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 mRNA vaccines don’t cause long-term spike protein production in the body, contrary to claims by retired professor
Claim:
COVID-19 RNA vaccines weren’t made with messenger RNA; vaccine RNA cannot be broken down in the body
Source: The Epoch Times, Klaus Steber, 2023-07-27 -
InaccurateWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is vaccinated against COVID-19, contrary to edited video claiming otherwise
Claim:
“Dr Tedros doesn’t have his vaccination”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2023-07-02
