Clinical and real-world studies have shown that the COVID-19 vaccines are effective in preventing serious disease, and there is a long history of vaccine requirements in the U.S. But a list of bogus claims, shared around the world in recent months, falsely attribute unique characteristics and requirements to COVID-19 vaccines.
A social media post spouting a list of false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines has saturated right-wing pockets of the internet over the last seven months, sowing doubts about vaccines that have proven to be safe and effective.
The list repeats some broad claims about the vaccines that we’ve addressed before and includes some new ones, which we’ll explain below.
It has shown up in all kinds of forums online — pasted in the comment section of a news website, published as a letter to the editor, posted on Reddit, featured on the website of a British neo-Nazi and self-described “white rights veteran,” used as the primary text for an Australian website called antivaxxs.com. And, of course, it’s been ubiquitous on social media, from far-right sites like Gab tomainstream sites like Facebook.
It’s also been posted in Filipino, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
We don’t know where the list originated, but the earliest versions we could find started circulating in the summer of 2021. We reached out to some of the first posters on Facebook, but we didn’t hear back. None of them credit the original source and, over time, the posts...
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