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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPro-Putin Disinformation on Ukraine Is Thriving in Online Anti-Vax Groups
All the usual themes: Secret government alliances, anti-Semitic tropes, and nefarious scientists.
KIERA BUTLE
Since the beginning of the pandemic, weve seen how conspiracy theories can overlap and collide. Ive documented how anti-vaccine groups embraced QAnon disinformation about liberal elites conspiring to unseat Trump, and how white nationalists find willing audiences for their racist ideology in anti-mask groups. Over the last week, a new disinformation hybrid has appeared, as online anti-vaccine groups have become a hotbed of pro-Russia conspiracy theories about the conflict in Ukraineand some of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists are actively promoting geopolitical falsehoods.
Imran Ahmed, executive director of the online extremism tracking group Center for Countering Digital Hate, has been following the convergence of the conspiracy theories, and hes noticed they share familiar themes: alleged secret government alliances, anti-Semitic accusations, and allusions to nefarious scientists. There are particular individuals within the anti-vaccine world who are amenable to pro-Russian propaganda, he says, and that would include some of the people whove cohered around QAnon and Trump.
One example of this is how an old Trump-era storylinethe theory that SARS-CoV-2 was deliberately engineered in a lab and releasedseems to have been reconstituted in a new form: Anti-vaccine influencers claim that the United States owns a network of secret biolabs in Ukraine where dangerous infectious disease research takes place. For them, its just obvious that Biden is sending aid to Ukraine in order to protect those assets. This rumor has been proven to be manifestly falsebut that hasnt stopped it from circulating and gaining momentum.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/pro-putin-disinformation-on-ukraine-is-thriving-in-online-anti-vax-groups/
I just wonder if any of these people had gotten vaccination shots when they were a kid, like David Wolf, Naomi Wolf....and others....because maybe Mr. Wolf can say that its George Soros fault that he had to get the vaccination shots when he was a kid....
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)about Ukraine is because its a major source for their child sex trafficking.
5 posted on 2022-03-01 by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather
have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
It's a large part of the reason why we overthrew Ukraine's government
in 2014. Ever wonder why one of USG's main objectives seems to be
pushing the gay/transgender agenda everywhere we go? It's a recruiting
tool. It's not coincidental that after the 2014 coup/colour
revolution, the US embassy made pushing "LGBTQ+ rights" in Ukraine a
top priority.
31 posted on 2022-03-01 by Yashcheritsiy
white hat operation approved by Trump. 😏
149 posted on 2022-02-26 by Georgia Girl 2
Putin knows exactly what hes doing, attacking the Global Deep State
operations out of Ukraine:
Ukraine has:
Software records from 2020 election - they made the voting software
Pedo and Sex Trafficking data
Hillary Clinton Records going back 25 years
11 Bioweapons labs run by U.S. The next variant was to come out of
Russia. 7 of those labs were the first targets hit Thursday.
Curious why Trump supporting Putin.
19 posted on 2022-02-26 by Rennes Templar (Come back,
President Trump.)
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Do a Twitter search for #Ukraine and you get over half bot tweets. I've been reporting the bots as not credible. The hashtag is getting 10K tweets per hour now. Top tweet is:
Link to tweet