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How vaccine safety became the latest target of bots and Russian trolls

Friday, August 24, 2018 - 12:00am

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Scientists at George Washington University were conducting research to see how public health educators could better use social media to promote vaccine safety. But it turned into a study about how bots and Russian trolls are spreading both pro- and anti-vaccine stories to intentionally confuse the West and sow dissension. Marco Werman speaks with the research director of the study, David Broniatowski of George Washington University.