What is Anti-Vax?
Anti-Vaxxers are people who oppose the use of vaccines for a number of reasons.Vaccines, they say, are also dangerous and infringe on their human rights. They usually dispute the presence or relevance of the science that supports their widespread use.
Lessons learned from researching cults (also known as modern religious movements and referring to movements that originated in the late twentieth century) can be applied to the anti-vax movement. A cult has come to represent a non-conforming philosophy or a faith that is disliked by the general public, with views that are unacceptably radical.
The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has released a new study that criticises social media firms for enabling the anti-vaccine movement to thrive on their platforms. According to the writers of the study, anti-vaxxers' social media accounts have grown their following by at least 78 million people since 2019.
The anti-vaccine movement seems to have found this out already. A study published in Nature earlier this year looked at how people felt about vaccination on the internet. Anti-vaccination clusters, despite their smaller overall scale, manage to become strongly intertwined with undecided clusters in the main online network, while pro-vaccination clusters are more peripheral, according to the writers.
They predicted that the anti-vaccination movement will outnumber pro-vaccination voices online in ten years. If that happened, the ramifications will be much greater than COVID-19.
We decide to choose this topic to make sure people have more knowledge about vaccination activities.
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