{"id":87761,"date":"2019-02-14T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted"},"modified":"2019-02-17T23:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:38:16","slug":"pregnant-women-are-being-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Women Are Being Targeted by Antivax Ads Online During a Measles Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is aggressively being used by anti-vaccination advocates to target pregnant women with sponsored advertisements to spread false information and conspiracy theories as the US battles a climbing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/vaccinations-boom-by-500-percent-in-us-county-where-measles-is-out-of-control\">measles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-a-dangerous-measles-outbreak-in-an-antivax-hotspot-in-portland\">outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sponsored ad found by Quartz journalist Jeremy Merrill shows the anti-vaccination organisation Stop Mandatory Vaccination targeting women ages 20 to 60 who have expressed interest in pregnancy living in the state of Washington \u2013 where the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/inslee-declares-state-of-emergency-over-washington-measles-outbreak\/\">recently declared a state of emergency<\/a> over the measles outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50 children and young adults in Clark County, Washington have become sickened by the disease since January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted-by-antivax-ads-online-during-a-measles-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted-by-antivax-ads-online-during-a-measles-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted-by-antivax-ads-online-during-a-measles-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pregnant-women-are-being-targeted-by-antivax-ads-online-during-a-measles-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is aggressively being used by anti-vaccination advocates to target pregnant women with sponsored advertisements to spread false information and conspiracy theories as the US battles a climbing measles outbreak. A sponsored ad found by Quartz journalist Jeremy Merrill shows the anti-vaccination organisation Stop Mandatory Vaccination targeting women ages 20 to 60 who have expressed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87761\/revisions\/87848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}