I just watched a YouTube video that shook me. In just a few brief minutes, recorded six years ago, journalist Sharyl Atkisson explained exactly what is happening, and how to know that it is happening, when a fraudulent product is promoted via a seemingly organic, but in fact bought and coordinated, campaign of lies, smear, and suppression.
Sharyl did not know that Covid was going to happen 5 years later, but she knew what promotion of terrible products and terrible ideas looks like.
The smear campaign against prominent and financially disinterested skeptics like Dr Malone, is exactly what Sharyl Atkisson is describing — before any of this actually happened.
The “fact checkers”, for example, exist for one purpose only: to suppress truth and make ordinary people decide “not to look there”.
Oh, c’mon. Seriously? You think that still happens? What are you, some tinfoil-hat wearing, crazy, Trump-supporting, lunatic, conspiracy-theorist nut job, science-denying, anti-vaxxer?
I checked Sikipedia and Dopes, and all my friends on Snapface, Instachat and Twaddle say this is Russian disinformation.
President Brandon would never allow it.
She also had a* TED talk from 2018 about fake news. Great videos and a true journalist! Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQcCIzjz9_s