The "Plandemic" Video Has Exploded Online -- And It Is Filled With Falsehoods

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/coronavirus-plandemic-viral-harmful-fauci-mikovits

The slickly produced video has been viewed by millions, despite platforms' attempts to limit its spread.

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Jane Lytvynenko
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on May 7, 2020, at 5:46 p.m. ET

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...On Thursday, Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo all said they are removing the video from their platforms.

But the video’s spread has been swift. Aside from the video platforms, it could be found on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even LinkedIn.

Produced by a company called Elevate, "The Plandemic" deftly weaves together several strands of rumors that have circulated since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, doing so with high production values and a sheen of unearned authority. It's not the first piece of viral content made by the man who produced it, Mikki Willis, who received media coverage in 2015 for buying his son an Ariel doll as a birthday present. In March 2019, Fox News covered his upcoming documentary about Nicholas Sandmann, the student at the center of the Covington Catholic High School controversy.

Mikovits herself is no stranger to accusations of false claims. In 2009, she published a study in Science on chronic fatigue syndrome that had to be retracted because it could not be replicated. She was fired from her job at the Whittemore Peterson Institute and brought up on criminal charges of theft of property and computer data, which were dropped in 2012.

That appears to be when Mikovits began to make unsubstantiated claims about Dr. Fauci. In 2014, she wrote a book in which she claimed that he personally barred her from the NIH premises, which he categorically denied to fact-checking site Snopes.

“I have no idea what she is talking about,” Dr. Fauci told Snopes in 2018.

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[Newest Reality]

1. It's just...

It's just an infinite regress of face palms these days. Your face gets red, black and blue and then blistered after a while.

Someday, maybe, we can deal with the gullibility crisis. It seems to be becoming dangerous.

[dawg day]

2. These people sure can believe completely contradictory things at the same time-

I sense the hand of "Q" in this one.

[kimbutgar]

3. A long time friend who is not really educated has been pushing this video on Facebook.

I’ll pass on watching. She thinks it’s an over reaction to wear masks and self isolate. Her last educational experience was graduating high school in 1980.

[tanyev]

4. My FB friend who posted it got some grief from a few commenters

and she replied, ‘So, if it’s false, why are so many people working to remove it?”

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Interesting!

Implying that falsehoods are commonplace (true), so "they" have no problem with falsehoods.

Seems like: "If preacher is lying about the safety of the Kool-Aid, then why are people trying to stop him NOW?"

[Igel]

5. I've never started a thread.

I see so many poorly thought-out OPs.

They excerpt assuming prior expert knowledge, and it's meaningless to most.

Or they mindlessly excerpt the first 4 paragraphs, in which it's all background and nothing actually relevant to the thread.

Please consider the lowly ellipsis. It allows us to take non-adjacent paragraphs and, with what amounts to a < I'm cutting out some crap > include both a paragraph or two to fill in the novice and provide something of relevance to those already au courant."

It takes the form "...".

Chasing to the cut,

“I have no idea what she is talking about...”.