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Pandata falsehoods putting children at risk

Title (Dublin Core)

Pandata falsehoods putting children at risk

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The attached link is to an anti-covid vaxx website, specifically about not vaccinating children. The first thing you see is a list of 10 reasons not to vaccinate children, followed by a video. The main message is vaccines for children are not safe. (Which I would personally like to point out is false.) They are pushing the idea that vaccines are coercive and dangerous.

The video is titled “What about the kids?”, and the page it’s listed on is titled “All Risk Zero Benefit.” First, we can look at the title of both of these to see tactics of persuasion. “What about the kids?” Exactly, what about them? This creates an emotional appeal to listen to the message, surely everyone would care about kids, and surely you want the best for them? “All Risk Zero Benefit”, a short title, to the point, definitive word choice. There is no room for argument with “zero benefit”. The video itself flashes between different news outlets and interviews with ‘experts’, Doctors. There is the continued tactic of “The other doctors don’t want you to know this”, or “The government is trying to control you”.

This is truly stupid and disgusting. If you watch the video, all the clips are from either Fox ‘news’, The Epoch Times, or from something called Brees Media. Fox and Epoch are both conservative right-wing outlets. I looked into Brees Media, as I hadn’t heard of it before. It is a former BBC employee who now created a company that teaches people how to create media content. She (Anna Brees, the owner) has several tweets and Instagram posts that push this anti-vaxx mentality. People tend to trust BBC, at least more so than other news sources, so by continuing to use the Ex-BBC in her bios on everything it begins to create a buy-in for people.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 25, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Abir Ballan

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

website

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.pandata.org/allrisk-zerobenefit/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220510192539/https://www.pandata.org/allrisk-zerobenefit/

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English News coverage
English Pandemic Skeptics
English Emotion
English Social Issues

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

appeal to emotion
video
Fox News
Epoch Times
Brees Media
BBC
vaccine skepticism
vaccine

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Anti-vaxx
pandemic skeptics
Arizona State University
harmful
fake news
children

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Pandemic skeptics assignment
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/10/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/13/2022
07/09/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/25/2021

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