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The video is everywhere in the comments sections of anti-vaccination Facebook pages. In it, a prominent vaccine opponent makes false claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
Then he goes on to tell another dangerous lie.
Legally, he says, all those people giving vaccinations are war criminals. Ill repeat that. Legally, all those people giving vaccinations are war criminals.
This claimwhich cites a bogus legal theory based on Nazi war crime trialsis not true. That hasnt stopped conspiracy theorists from spamming it in Facebook comments and uploading it across the internet, where individual clips have received more than 100,000 views. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists are planning new in-person demonstrations outside vaccination sites. One, a sequel to a now-notorious event that shut down one of the largest such sites in America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, is being organized by a vaccination opponent who himself accuses health-care workers of war crimes, The Daily Beast has learned.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-vaxxers-plot-l-protest-095850964.html
coti
(4,612 posts)the "war" part.
On the other hand, I think it's much easier to characterize interfering with thousands of people attempting to get vaccinated as a crime against humanity than it is the other way around.
Aristus
(66,386 posts)you just know they're lying through their teeth
dutch777
(3,023 posts)You don't get to say someone is a war criminal when it is not true and get a pass on that level of invective as "free speech". Until there are serious and costly consequences for these conspiracy proponents, and maybe the platforms they post on, this unhealthy behavior will only continue and grow.
dhill926
(16,343 posts)if they try this stunt again...