The term “vaccine injury” is a term being used by the anti-vax campaign on social media. I have seen some people claiming they’re not anti-vax, and that they should be able to use the term without critique. Some may have figured out using the term gets them clicks and views on twitter, youtube, etc. and they’re not interested in giving up that attention now because social media is incredibly addictive, also sometimes lucrative. There’s a lot of money being thrown at anyone willing to push anti-vax narratives, even subtly or unwittingly. They get a lot of attention and a lot of “love” on all the platforms. Troll accounts are paid to go out and hit like on anything anti-vax.
This is information laundering — which obscures the sources (and motives) of the messaging. It’s stirring horizontal violence and lateral ableism on social media. Some really aggressive pushing of health misinformation, anti-vax disinformation, political demoralization, and undermining of positive pro-social action, is done using the language of disability justice, identity, or diversity language.