World Tribune Reports: The dominant media insist that the “disinformation” peddled by “anti-vaxxers” is so horrible that these people must be rigidly censored on social media and suppressed wherever and whenever they are to be found in the name of public safety.
From a Feb. 4 Associated Press article. The second paragraph says it all:
The use of “died suddenly” – or a misspelled version of it – has surged more than 740% in tweets about vaccines over the past two months compared with the two previous months, the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs found in an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. The phrase’s explosion began with the late November debut of an online “documentary” by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.
“It’s kind of in-group language, kind of a wink wink, nudge nudge,” said Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. “They’re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something – people do, in fact, die unexpectedly – and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.”
Hey, this is serious. People are going to get killed because of this:
The campaign causes harm beyond just the internet, epidemiologist Dr. Katelyn Jetelina said.
“ The real danger is that it ultimately leads to real world actions such as not vaccinating ,” said Jetelina, who tracks and breaks down COVID data for her blog, “Your Local Epidemiologist.”
The faux-hard-edged journalism acting by AP reporters here is reminiscent of the worst theatrics commonly found during the heyday of the coronavirus pandemic hype:
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