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RFK Jr's appointment boosts Europe's anti-vax movements, researchers claim


Most of the top-performing posts analysed were found to contain misinformation, according to social media researchers.

UNICEF is conducting a study in Romania and France to understand immunisation, Euronews was told, and preliminary data shows one in two caregivers there reported that social media influenced their decision on whether or not to be vaccinated. RFK Jr has also triggered a backlash after he claimed that increasing autism rates were the result of “an environmental toxin,” as he announced that his department would undertake a massive effort to determine the cause of the developmental disorder. It just opened the floodgates," Prof Heidi Larson, the head of the Vaccine Confidence Programme at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told Euronews.

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