Hashtags and Humor Are Used to Spread Extreme Content on Social Media

9/6/25
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Murderer!” That’s what former health minister Magnus Heunicke was greeted with when he was dropping his daughter off at a continuation school. Another parent was so angry about the Danish COVID vaccine program that he believed it was part of a conspiracy to kill healthy Danes. Therefore, the heckling was a perfectly reasonable reaction, he thought.

The idea of a murderous vaccine conspiracy had been spread on social media, but often mixed with memes, popular culture references and updates on users’ everyday lives.

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