2023-07-31
18 分钟If you lost someone important to you, would you share it online?
A lot of us would.
A social media announcement has become part of the ritual of big life events, from pregnancies and engagements to deaths.
But what if sharing your grief made you a lightning rod for abuse?
That's where I had gone on and told everybody on Twitter, yeah, I just lost my husband very suddenly to a massive heart attack.
You're listening to trolled from BBC Trending.
I'm Rachel Schreyer, the BBC's health and disinformation reporter.
And in this episode I'm investigating a viral film that's whipped up a new and dark obsession in the anti vaccine movement.
I guess those key words really opened up floodgates for people telling us what horrible people we were because we were vaccinated and how it was our fault.
Their belief is that Covid vaccines are driving a wave of sudden and suspicious deaths.
Now, any death that's announced on social media, no matter the cause, can be used as evidence.
It's leading online mobs to track down bereaved people and harass them.
And all grief is fair game.
The belief in a coming apocalypse.
Clips from the moon landing and the assassination of JFK flash rapidly on screen.
There's only two ways to do it.
One is to bring the birth rate down.
The other is to push the death rate up.
Jeffrey Epstein's death 911 I'm now an anti vaxxer.
I wasn't before.