A Telegram post from an Australian anti-vaccine campaigner falsely claims that a decision by government advisers not to recommend a fourth Covid-19 shot to under-30s is proof that the jabs "were never safe or effective". Scientists say the benefits of vaccination greatly outweigh the risks, but that it was not currently advisable to give an extra shot to healthy young people who already had three doses, given their low chances of falling seriously ill with Covid-19 and a rare risk of heart inflammation linked to the jabs.

"They are finally admitting that the whacks cause heart complications and are not going to recommend any further injections for 'young people'," reads a Telegram post from November 15.

The term 'whacks' appears to refer to Covid-19 vaccines. Anti-vaccine groups on social media commonly use code words or even emojis to refer to the jabs to evade automated moderation tools.

"These things were NEVER safe or effective and the people who pushed them knew full well," adds the post from David Oneeglio, a prominent Australian anti-vaccine campaigner with more than 68,000 subscribers on Telegram.

Oneeglio has made a string of false claims about vaccines, including that Australian authorities were forcing farmers to inject livestock with mRNA jabs and that political parties were planning to make vaccination compulsory.

The Telegram post shows a clip from a broadcast by Australia's 9 News, which reports that the government's Australian Technical Advisory Group on...

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