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Antivaxxers tend to do their proselyting for free. What this may discourage is that professional trolls meddle with it because they promote any "oppressed" outl
by pgeorgi 8y ago
Antivaxxers tend to do their proselyting for free. What this may discourage is that professional trolls meddle with it because they promote any "oppressed" outlandish claim to optimize for clicks (and therefore ad revenue).
- acqq 8y agoI actually know one person who earns "consultancy fees" from the mothers whom she first "as a friend" convinces that their babies are "in danger". There are really people who earn real money by scaring the mothers. And Google is a big part of the problem with their "you will surely want more of the same" algorithms: the "friendly approached" mother googles only once for these topics, sees one of the "anti" videos and then gets from Google many "recommendations" for more and more "anti" stuff, every time she is interested in anything else. The Google "recommendation algorithms" are the real and huge problem, not only their "monetization". The same happens with other topics where many lies are involved and the actual harm ensues.