An-Najah News - Some of concurrency theories supporters will tell you that the vaccine will inject you with an electronic chip, poison you, make you sick, they say.
Coronavirus vaccine yet is not ready and scientists are multiplying efforts to find one.But already anti-vaxxers (group of people who don't believe in vaccinations) - have taken advantage of the pandemic to multiply disinformation on social media.
One the theories claims the COVID-19 crisis was a government setup viewed millions of times on YouTube and other platforms.
Anti-vax rhetoric is "continuously evolving, without a clear definition," meaning it can reach people across the political divide according to Sylvain Delouvee, a researcher in social psychology at the University of Rennes, in France
According to David Broniatowski, from George Washington University in DC the extent to which the pandemic has altered the misinformation landscape is not yet clear, Still, the anti-vax movement "could amplify outbreaks" of COVID-19.
The attention given to COVID-19 has allowed anti-vaxxers to fold the news into their existing narrative, according to Amelia Jamison, at the University of Maryland.