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From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies: Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears | The New York Times

Sidney Powell, a lawyer who was part of President Trump’s legal team, spread a conspiracy theory last month about election fraud. For days, she claimed that she would “release the Kraken” by showing voluminous evidence that Mr. Trump had won the election by a landslide.

But after her assertions were widely derided and failed to gain legal traction, Ms. Powell started talking about a new topic. On Dec. 4, she posted a link on Twitter with misinformation that said that the population would be split into the vaccinated and the unvaccinated and that “big government” could surveil those who were unvaccinated.

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Source: From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies: Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears – The New York Times