Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook
by Julia Carrie Wong in Oakland from Technology | The Guardian on (#4A27C)
Medical experts who counter misinformation are weathering coordinated attacks. Now some are fighting back
When the naturopath Elias Kass testified before a Washington state senate committee on 20 February with a baby on his chest and a pacifier in his hand, he knew that his arguments would be unpopular with the anti-vaccine activists in the room. Amid a measles outbreak that has infected 66 people so far, legislators were considering a bill to eliminate personal and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations, and Kass was one of several practitioners to speak in support of the measure.
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