Reality Check: What’s the harm of ‘funny’ anti-vaccine memes?

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Memes are a great bit of light relief from all the scary things going on in the world right now. But some of the content that’s circulating about the Covid-19 vaccines might be doing more harm than good.

Find out about the anti-vaccine scaremongering memes with the BBC Reality Check team below.

Reality Check: What’s the harm of ‘funny’ anti-vaccine memes?

Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael investigate false claims spread through memes about the coronavirus vaccine.

 Reality Check: What’s the harm of ‘funny’ anti-vaccine memes?

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