BRUMFIEL: But anti-vaccine activists were also part of the group. One of the people reading the page was an anti-vaccine campaigner named Naomi Wolf.
SMITH: She is a very highly followed influencer in the kind of what we call pseudo-medical community.
BRUMFIEL: Wolf is not a medical doctor. And yet on April 19, she tweeted this message.
SMITH: (Reading) Hundreds of women on this page say that they are having bleeding/clotting after vaccination or that they bleed oddly around vaccinated women.
(Reading) Unconfirmed - needs more investigation - but lots of reports.
BRUMFIEL: And right there came the distortions. First, Wolf uses an old trick - says something needs more investigation. She asks a question, raises doubt but doesn't present facts that can be refuted. And second, by saying these side effects happened around vaccinated women, Wolf has seamlessly added a complete myth to the real concern.
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But Wolf keeps tweeting and piling on more misinformation. Can vaccines cause infertility, miscarriages? The answer to all this is no.
LU-CULLIGAN: At this point, there have been many, many millions of women who have gotten the vaccine. And to date, there have been no scientific reports on any incidence of infertility.
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BRUMFIEL: Naomi Wolf, who first spread the myth, was suspended from Twitter. But it's also a feature of the lies themselves. They grab attention. But there's no substance there. So once they've shocked those they're meant to engage, they disappear - or more properly, they're replaced by a new incredible story.