The founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate warned about the rise of anti-vaxx groups around the world, adding that the threat stems predominantly from conspiracy theories. Imran Ahmed discussed with the BBC the risks attached to the anti-vaxx campaigns online which could have fatal repercussions on people’s mental health. Mr Ahmed shed light on what conspiracism is, explaining that it can be broken down into “epistemic anxieties” and people’s insatiable hunger for information.
COVID-19 has claimed millions of lives across the globe since it broke out in 2019 but despite clear evidence that the virus really exists, with the death tolls climbing aggressively, phenomena like suspicions about what is really going on and conspiracy theories persist, with millions of people refusing to get jabbed as a result.
