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Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org

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    Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 19 Jan 2018

    Notorious fake news website YourNewsWire reaches a new low & makes up a fake story about the flu shot that is going viral and threatens public health.https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/19/Fake-news-is-now-a-public-health-hazard-as-a-false-story-about-flu-shots-goes-viral-on-Fac/219113 …

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      2. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 19 Jan 2018

        As of right now, this fake story has more than 176,000 Facebook engagements (and it keeps climbing). The fake story has caused people on Facebook to write things such as that it proves "why I have not had the flu shot since 1990."pic.twitter.com/ED6Zv3fk1c

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      3. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 19 Jan 2018

        Multiple Macedonian fake news websites have also copied YourNewsWire's fake story, helping the fake story spread even more on social media.pic.twitter.com/GLJFxvoxR1

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      4. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 19 Jan 2018

        .@MesquiteLocal, a local Nevada newspaper, shared the fake YourNewsWire story about an hour ago on Facebook.pic.twitter.com/rj1vpi1HwG

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      5. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 19 Jan 2018

        Because @MesquiteLocal, an actual newspaper, decided to share YourNewsWire's fake story, a person who may not have otherwise seen the fake story wrote it was "just one more reason to support why I don't get the flu shot."pic.twitter.com/FnOSREftb5

        3 replies 8 retweets 7 likes
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      6. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 19 Jan 2018

        The fake story has crossed 210,000 Facebook engagements.pic.twitter.com/JYXl9Td5Ox

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      7. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 20 Jan 2018

        This fake story claiming the flu shot is killing people has now jumped to nearly 320,000 Facebook engagements. It has gotten about 143,000 more Facebook engagements since the publication of @mmfa's article late morning yesterday.pic.twitter.com/LJxM2hQ6pk

        2 replies 16 retweets 11 likes
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      8. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 20 Jan 2018

        Alex Kaplan Retweeted Alex Kaplan

        Putting this tweet here because it seems to have gotten disconnected from the thread.https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/954823572953948160 …

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        Alex KaplanVerified account @AlKapDC
        Radio personality Michael William Lebron, who has written at RT, tweets a version of the fake story from Neon Nettle, another fake news website. pic.twitter.com/tA8k3tYrkJ
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      9. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 20 Jan 2018

        YourNewsWire's anti-flu shot fake story is now at 415,000 Facebook engagements. It got about 95,000 more Facebook engagements in about 14 hours.pic.twitter.com/4VWVvf0rWl

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      10. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 21 Jan 2018

        One of the reasons this fake story has gone so viral is it has been posted on multiple anti-vax Facebook group pages (or group pages sympathetic to that).pic.twitter.com/kMoc8jFxi0

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      11. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 21 Jan 2018

        And it just crossed half a million Facebook engagements. Probably the most viral fake story of 2018 so far.pic.twitter.com/Rs9duploa2

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      12. Alex Kaplan‏Verified account @AlKapDC 22 Jan 2018

        YourNewsWire's verified Facebook page again pushed the fake story this morning.pic.twitter.com/JvWvYIqFmF

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