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Pro-Russia vaccine misinfo finds home in US Facebook groups

by Associated Press
| August 7, 2020 12:03 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — A false report claiming five Ukrainians had died after taking an American-made coronavirus vaccine spread in just a matter of days from a small Kremlin-friendly website to an audience of thousands in U.S.-based Facebook groups.

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