Don’t blame Russian trolls for our anti-vaxx problem. Our misinformation is homegrown | Sophie Zhang

I blew the whistle on inauthentic behavior at Facebook. But authentic misinformation is the bigger problem in the west

On 18 May 2021, German YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann tweeted an unusual message: a marketing agency was asking him to share allegedly leaked documents on Covid-19 vaccine deaths. Within a week, French YouTuber Leo Grasset shared similar news. News reports followed: Fazze, a London-based marketing firm with ties to Russia, was offering money to influencers to falsely disparage a Covid-19 vaccine.

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