New York: Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has dropped himself into the riotous social media debate over childhood vaccines after posting photos of himself taking his newborn daughter to get immunization shots at the doctor's office.
His Facebook post on Friday shows a photo of Zuckerberg holding his daughter, Max, alongside the caption "Doctor’s visit – time for vaccines!" Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced the birth of their child on Dec. 1.
By Monday, the image had generated more than 3 million likes and 69,000 comments, with many presuming the post was an implicit endorsement of child vaccinations.
The decision to vaccinate children has become a heated debate in the US over the past several years. Anti-vaccination advocates claim that inoculating children can cause diseases or developmental disorders, like autism.
"I love that you are promoting vaccines!" wrote Raluca Sander on Friday. "There is so much confusion on that topic out there and it causes too much harm."
"Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg for not only creating this social media platform so that I may advocate for vaccines, but thank you for being a public health advocate yourself!" wrote Angela Quinn.
Other Facebook users, however, slammed Zuckerberg, claiming that vaccinations are dangerous.
Doctor's visit -- time for vaccines!Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, January 8, 2016
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