An imposter US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) vaccine security web site hosted by a nonprofit as soon as led by Well being and Human Providers (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been taken down after a watchdog seen it being staged.
E. Rosalie Li, MA, founding father of InfoEpi Lab on Substack, reported the clone on Friday after studying of the faked web site, which was almost similar to the official CDC vaccine security web site however cited misinformation about vaccines and autism.
The URL realcdc.org was redirecting to the staging web site chdstaging.org, a site that Li mentioned is hosted by the antivaccine group Youngsters’s Well being Protection (CHD), which Kennedy led till he launched his presidential bid in 2023. Realcdc.org was activated on January 24 and is managed by way of the identical Cloudflare (content-delivery community) host because the one hosted by CHD.
The shadow web site used CDC logos, hyperlinks to energetic CDC social media accounts, the identical fonts, codecs, and comparable language, in addition to purported mother or father testimonials about their kid’s unfavourable expertise with vaccines (with titles corresponding to “Mom of three: I’ll by no means vaccinate once more”).
Imposter web site taken down
The location was taken down on Saturday night at Kennedy’s path after the New York Occasions requested about it and social media posts about it proliferated, the Occasions reported.
