“Many providers and even whole hospitals are afraid of posting pro-vaccine material on Facebook simply for fear of putting a bullseye on their backs,” Chad Hermann from Kids Plus Pediatrics in Pittsburgh said.
Groups set up on social media platforms to promote anti-vaccination messages are targeting vaccine advocates in online harassment campaigns, reports claim.
Kass—who won a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization advocacy award in 2017—said that someone called him “a disgusting liar” in a hallway soon after the hearing, but this was nothing compared to the torrent of abuse that he found online several hours later, The Guardian reported. Kass’s story is by no means unique. There is a dedicated network of closed Facebook groups—some of which boast hundreds of thousands of members—that spread anti-vaccination messages and often work to silence and intimidate those who advocate vaccinations, The Guardian reported.
Larry Cook—a prominent anti-vaxxer and the creator of Stop Mandatory Vaccinations—told The Guardian when asked for comment about the tactics he used to direct people to Kass’s page: “My intent is to ensure that those who oppose vaccine mandates know who favor vaccine mandates just like your intent is to name those who are against vaccine mandates.”
While KPP’s Yelp ratings have recovered due to the company’s stringent process for dealing with fraudulent reviews, their Google maps page still features numerous one-star ratings from the attack.
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