South Africa Women Infodemic.

In South Africa, a small group of volunteers is waging an online battle against covid-19 and vaccine misinformation much of it comes from abroad.

When Sarah Downs Tweeted about how her grandmother had died from covid-19, there was one response she didn't expect. I had just posted a message on Twitter basically saying my amazing grandma passed away and she meant a lot to me, she says.

So then I had someone asking me well, was there an autopsy done? What were the autopsy results? you don't know that she passed away from covid. She could have passed away  from something else. She had run directly into a covid-19 denier. They're a relatively small.

At the top end of the information pipeline are a relatively small collection of Facebook groups and users, including some that have actively promoted hard line anti vaccination content for years.

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