12 Mar 2020

Parents researching vaccinations online likely to encounter misinformation

From Morning Report, 7:48 am on 12 March 2020

A new study has found parents researching childhood vaccinations online are likely to encounter significant levels of misinformation.

While 20 percent of websites identified by Google searches and 25 percent of videos published on YouTube were negative about vaccines, that figure jumps to 50 percent of pages on Facebook.

The study's lead researcher is Dr Lucy Elkin from the University of Otago..

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