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Reviews of articles by: Instagram users
CLAIM REVIEWS
Moderna didn’t already produce COVID-19 mRNA vaccines before the pandemic; statement by CEO of Moderna misinterpreted
CLAIM
Moderna was already producing COVID-19 vaccines before the beginning of the pandemic
SOURCE: Instagram users, Instagram
Published: 14 Feb 2023
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French political advisor Jacques Attali didn’t call for world depopulation through pandemics or vaccines
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Attali wrote “the future will be about finding a way to reduce the population”, elites will “find a real cause, a pandemic” after having “taken care of having panned the treatment”
SOURCE: Instagram users, Instagram
Published: 02 Jan 2023
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mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 don’t modify humans, and don’t make them patentable or owned by any entities
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“if a human is injected with a GMO it becomes a patented piece of property from the government”, “they take away all your rights with mRNAs”
SOURCE: Instagram Users, TikTok, Instagram
Published: 15 Nov 2022
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Bill and Melinda Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates is fully vaccinated, including against COVID-19, despite online claims to the contrary
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Phoebe Adele Gates is “unvaccinated, not even [for] childhood vaccines”.
SOURCE: Instagram Users, Instagram
Published: 10 Nov 2022
VERDICT
COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing illness and death; rare infections in vaccinated people can still occur, as seen in the Celebrity Millennium cruise
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“Passengers on first fully vaccinated [...] cruise ship test positive for COVID-19. Almost like the shot is useless.”
SOURCE: Instagram users, Instagram
Published: 17 Jun 2021
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COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain magnetic ingredients; dose volume is too small to contain any device able to hold a magnet through the skin
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COVID-19 vaccines contain metals or microchips that cause magnets to attach to the arm of vaccinated people
SOURCE: Facebook users, Instagram users, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Published: 20 Mai 2021
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Deaths are attributed to COVID-19 according to clinical symptoms and diagnosis; deaths that occur after vaccination are systematically reported and investigated
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“If you die within 20 days of testing positive for [COVID-19][...], you’ll be counted as a COVID death.”; vaccines are systematically dismissed as a possible cause of death.
SOURCE: Instagram Users, Instagram
Published: 10 Mai 2021
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Scientific evidence demonstrates that COVID-19 and the virus that causes it exist and are different from the flu
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“We found no COVID-19 in any of the 1,500 [COVID-19-positive] samples” but influenza A and B; “what we're dealing with is just another flu strain like every year. COVID 19 does not exist and is fictitious”
SOURCE: Instagram users, Instagram
Published: 06 Mai 2021
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COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause herpes infections; a possible association with the reactivation of herpes zoster in patients with rheumatic diseases remains unconfirmed
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“Herpes infections may be a side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine”
SOURCE: Jackie Salo, Social media users, New York Post, Facebook, Instagram
Published: 26 Apr 2021
VERDICT
Face masks, handwashing, and vaccination do not weaken the immune system, and are effective measures to reduce the spread of infectious diseases
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Public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 including face masks, vaccines, and frequent handwashing “suppress our immune systems”
SOURCE: Anonymous, Instagram
Published: 26 Nov 2020
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