M.I.A. says she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after Sandy Hook comments

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M.I.A. has clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after she was criticised earlier this week.Yesterday (October 13), the singer faced a backlash for a tweet which compared alt-right figure Alex Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” vaccines.Jones was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.“If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” M.I.A.

wrote, before comparing Jones’ misinformation to “Pfizer lying” in a follow-up tweet.In a new interview with The Guardian about her new album ‘MATA’, out today (October 14), M.I.A.

was asked about her vaccine stance, to which she responded: “The language they use to attack anybody is to say: ‘Oh, she’s an anti-vaxxer’ or blah blah blah.

And it’s like, no, not really.“I know three people who have died from taking the vaccine and I know three people who have died from COVID.