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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor

The UK’s homegrown conspiracy groups with links to QAnon

Resistance GB live broadcast of Keir Starmer
Resistance GB live broadcast of Keir Starmer being heckled outside parliament last week. Photograph: Twitter

The most comprehensive analysis of the UK’s anti-vax community reveals that just 0.32% of the population is active in the movement, contradicting its claim to represent “the 99%”.

The first analysis of its kind shows that the anti-vax movement is far smaller than expected, with about 220,000 unique active users identified within a network of 427 groups on the messaging app Telegram, its preferred platform.

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