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This morning I received a direct message from someone I’m connected to in the wellness community. By now, I’m accustomed to the language: “I would be interested in your take on xxx,” followed by a video of a “medical doctor” who “appears to be knowledgeable and sincere, and also speaks from the heart.”
While bedside manner is important, the ruse is immediately apparent. Another way of phrasing an anti-vaxx agenda is to claim, “I’m just asking questions,” wherein the questions answer themselves. The video in question tries to connect vaccines with “Nanobots, GMO’s [sic], trans humans [sic]” and “Covid-19 [sic].”
The monologue is an incoherent rambling of numerous buzzwords from different disciplines united by one goal: to make you believe a giant conspiracy is happening right in front of us that only the woke can see.
That I received the video on Facebook isn’t surprising. As Media Matters points out, the social media giant has become Ground Zero for the anti-vax movement. Despite the company’s stated intentions to combat anti-vax disinformation, that doesn’t seem to be changing.
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Source: How anti-vax groups are using Facebook to spread coronavirus disinformation – Big Think