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CNN / Oliver Darcy / Mar 19, 2021
“Headlines that, while sometimes factually accurate, are posted with ‘little to no context’ are spread online and ‘weaponized’ by anti-vaccination groups on Facebook where they amass thousands of interactions. Three articles from local news sites gained more than 800,000 interactions on Facebook, the study found. One of these local news headlines, for example, read, ‘Health care worker dies after second dose of COVID vaccine, investigations underway.'”
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