The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot – BBC News

July 25, 2021

The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot – BBC News:

A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.

W.T.A.F… This presents one of the core issues with “citizen journalism” and the fuzzy state non-traditional “news” lives in… Because we only know this happened because a few people spoke up… But we don’t have any way of knowing who didn’t, or how many other campaigns there are like this for other topics.

Posted by Kristopher
Filed in Politics, Social Media
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