Closing down trolls, bots, and content polluters would be a start
In April 2019, Unicef and the World Health Organization highlighted a global surge of measles.12 There were 966 cases of measles confirmed in the United Kingdom in 2018, nearly four times as many as in 20173; 91.2% of 2 year olds in England had been given the MMR vaccine in 2018, down from 92.7% in 2013-14,4 with both rates below the 95% considered necessary to prevent transmission in the population. Those seeking an explanation have highlighted the role played by disinformation spread through social media. The English secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, described “those promoting the antivaccine myth as having blood on their hands,” adding that he was “completely open to all options” on how to bolster vaccination rates, including making immunisations compulsory.5