Boris Johnson Pressures Social Media To Do Something About “Superstitious Mumbo Jumbo Anti-Vax Stuff”

August 19, 2019 Britain, Science

The Associated Press reports:

Britain’s government is planning to pressure social media companies to do more to fight misinformation on vaccines following a spike in measles cases.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday that while the country had a great record on fighting measles, things were suddenly “going in the wrong direction,” with 230 new measles cases in the first few months of this year.

Johnson says “I’m afraid people have been listening to that superstitious mumbo jumbo on the internet, all that anti-vax stuff and thinking that the MMR vaccine is a bad idea. That’s wrong.”

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?: “People have been listening to that superstitious mumbo-jumbo on the Internet!”@BorisJohnson says more must be done to fight back against #antivax propaganda after the UK lost its measles-free status.

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