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Within the framework of World Immunization Week, Twitter launched an awareness campaign on COVID-19 vaccines on Monday, Which consists of providing users with information on availability, distribution plans, and safety of vaccination doses. They did so with a photo of two fingers in V, referring to the hashtag #Vaccinated. But the local opposition believed that it was propaganda for the national government of the Peronist symbol and accused the executive authority of “politicizing the epidemic.”

“Chavezmo with graphic design” is the accusation of the former head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Laura Alonso. Rabbuza, the leader of the pro-government party, wrote that she asked citizens “to vote to start getting rid of them,” as she wrote in her personal account. Minutes later, when netizens identified the error, Alonso deleted the tweet without apology.

But the former official was not the only one. “He told me it was fake,” asked Macri’s former finance minister, Alfonso Pratt Gay, in his comment on the post in which he accused the government of advertising on Twitter with the symbol of Al-Biruni. As always in the bird’s social network, the user response was not long.

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This project will be effective Monday for a period of seven days In Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Notifications will appear on the schedule for any user On those sites, it will be available in seven languages. They direct people on Twitter a Moments fall on Important topics such as vaccine safety, what vaccines are available, and distribution plans And more.

“We’ll see this week a message on your timeline, which links to sources on vaccine safety, efficacy and news from public health experts,” they said in detail from the social network.

As for the reason for choosing the finger symbol in V, they explained from Twitter that it is V for pollination, It represents the essence of the message to be conveyed.

“For more than a year, people around the world have relied on Twitter for the most up-to-date information about Covid-19. As vaccination progresses around the world, people seek updated local information about vaccine eligibility criteria in their area, vaccination site updates, and the latest Additional information from public health experts they have, so we are expanding our efforts to display reliable information about Covid-19 with notifications at the start of the schedule that include the most recent information on vaccines, ”a spokesperson for the platform explained.