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Fake News Culture

 For the last couple of days, I’ve noticed many young people sharing and liking anti-vaccine content on social media. I’m not only talking about teens in Poland but also from the English-speaking countries. There was a burst of many conversations about a rightness of the vaccine. Statements like: we don’t need herd immunity, vaccines have microchips in them etc. 

In my opinion, many teens base their knowledge about Covid-19 vaccines on fake news and misinformation. They learn and read from unchecked sources, and they create their opinion even without asking why? They seem to take everything for what it is, not interested in how or why it came to be. It’s like nowadays, fake is mistaken as real and real as fake. And the fake news culture should take a blame for that. I believe, it’s destroying a critical and reasonable thinking. And at some point, things will start to be dangerous for everybody.




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  1. englishdiary28 September 2021 at 10:17

    As the issue of vaccines shows, the fake news culture has already become dangerous. Not just in the case of Covid but other diseases people used to vaccinate their kids against, like measles or TB - thanks to unvaccinated kids, both are back.

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