Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare

Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare

In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned anti-vaccine activist, on her show to talk about her son Evan’s autism diagnosis. “The University of Google is where I got my degree from,” she said during that appearance. McCarthy would go on to become one of the most visible purveyors of disinformation around vaccines and autism, encouraging countless parents to believe that vaccines give children developmental di…