Plandemic video damaged public support for vaccination

Evidence

We can see each of these traits at play in the now infamous viral conspiracy theory video ‘plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19’. The film premiered on YouTube on 4 May 2020, and featured an interview with a discredited medical researcher, Judy Mikovits, who advances all sorts of conspiratorial claims about the pandemic, including that the virus was bioengineered and the false notion that, ‘Wearing the mask literally activates your own virus.’ The video garnered millions of views in the two days it was online before YouTube officially took it down. Studies show that exposure to the video damaged public support for vaccination programmes. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 210

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media false balance gave a discredited vaccine claim lasting public credibility — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 261; A single discredited study depressed US vaccination coverage for decades — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 262

Broader Connections

• Media false balance gave a discredited vaccine claim lasting public credibility #complicates (0.75) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 261