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PART TWENTY FOUR
ADVICE FOR CONSPIRACY THEORY ADDICTS
ADVICE FOR CONSPIRACY THEORY ADDICTS
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Conspiracy Theory Addiction Is Real
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PART TWENTY FIVE - (FAKE NEWS A)
Four key disinfodemic format types spread by conspiracy theory addicts
The main format types are:
1. Emotive narrative constructs and memes
False claims and textual narratives which often mix strong emotional language, lies and/or incomplete information, and personal opinions, along with elements of truth. These formats are particularly hard to uncover.
2. Fabricated websites and authoritative identities
These include false sources, polluted datasets, and fake government or company websites, and websites publishing seemingly plausible information in the genre of news stories e.g. reporting bogus cases of COVID-19.
3. Fraudulently altered, fabricated, or decontextualised images and videos
These are used to create confusion and generalised distrust and/or evoke strong emotions through viral memes or false stories.
4. Disinformation infiltrators and orchestrated campaigns
These are aimed at: sowing discord in online communities; advancing nationalism and geopolitical agendas; illicit collection of personal health data and phishing; or monetary gain from spam and adverts for false cures.
In contaminating public understanding of different aspects of the pandemic and its effects, COVID-19 disinformation has harnessed a wide range of formats.
Many have been honed in the context of antivaccination campaigns and political disinformation.
They frequently smuggle falsehoods into people’s consciousness by focusing on beliefs rather than reason, and feelings instead of deduction.
They rely on prejudices, polarisation and identity politics, as well as credulity, cynicism and individuals’ search for simple sense-making in the face of great complexity and change.
In the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, “our enemy is also the growing surge of misinformation” during the crisis. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described the disinformation swirling amidst the COVID-19 pandemic as a “massive infodemic” - a major driver of the pandemic itself.
Four key disinfodemic format types spread by conspiracy theory addicts
The main format types are:
1. Emotive narrative constructs and memes
False claims and textual narratives which often mix strong emotional language, lies and/or incomplete information, and personal opinions, along with elements of truth. These formats are particularly hard to uncover.
2. Fabricated websites and authoritative identities
These include false sources, polluted datasets, and fake government or company websites, and websites publishing seemingly plausible information in the genre of news stories e.g. reporting bogus cases of COVID-19.
3. Fraudulently altered, fabricated, or decontextualised images and videos
These are used to create confusion and generalised distrust and/or evoke strong emotions through viral memes or false stories.
4. Disinformation infiltrators and orchestrated campaigns
These are aimed at: sowing discord in online communities; advancing nationalism and geopolitical agendas; illicit collection of personal health data and phishing; or monetary gain from spam and adverts for false cures.
In contaminating public understanding of different aspects of the pandemic and its effects, COVID-19 disinformation has harnessed a wide range of formats.
Many have been honed in the context of antivaccination campaigns and political disinformation.
They frequently smuggle falsehoods into people’s consciousness by focusing on beliefs rather than reason, and feelings instead of deduction.
They rely on prejudices, polarisation and identity politics, as well as credulity, cynicism and individuals’ search for simple sense-making in the face of great complexity and change.
In the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, “our enemy is also the growing surge of misinformation” during the crisis. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described the disinformation swirling amidst the COVID-19 pandemic as a “massive infodemic” - a major driver of the pandemic itself.
Gee, it sounds like you're implying that the site I used to prove my point about what fauci said about the experimental injection is fake.
I couldn't get that other guy to answer the question of whether or not THIS ONE is legitimate or not: Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses
But I know you're just the person to clear all this up and pull his butt out of the fire. So what is it about that site that draws your suspicion and confirms in your mind that NO WAY is it legit? You think they're out to getcha doncha? Have you become paranoid of stuff that goes against your world view?
Seriously, what was it about that site that sounded the alarm in your mind?
Taking all of these factors into account, it is not surprising that none of the predominantly mucosal respiratory viruses have ever been effectively controlled by vaccines. This observation raises a question of fundamental importance: if natural mucosal respiratory virus infections do not elicit complete and long-term protective immunity against reinfection, how can we expect vaccines, especially systemically administered non-replicating vaccines, to do so? This is a major challenge for future vaccine development, and overcoming it is critical as we work to develop “next-generation” vaccines.
You think that some guy/gal made that up? Why am I even asking? Of course you do. What else could you possibly "think"?
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Nope. He's the one behind the sofa that the woman in the third picture on the top right is sitting on.
It was an easy mistake; almost made it myself.
It was your phone screen. On a computer screen, you can see that, besides looking paranoid, she's the only one that also looks like she's hiding something; in this case, kev.
HA!!
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PART TWENTY SIX
THE CRUELTY OF CONSPIRACY THEORY ADDICTION
A growing online conspiracy theory is using the tagline “died suddenly” to baselessly claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver’s autopsy may take weeks.
But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine.
A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia’s name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji.
A Facebook user messaged her mother, Jessica Day-Weaver, to call her a “murderer” for having her child vaccinated.
In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalisations with respiratory viruses.
“The doctors haven’t given us any information other than it was due to all of her chronic conditions.
There was never a thought that it could be from the vaccine," Jessica said of her daughter's death.
But those facts didn’t matter online, where Anastasia was swiftly added to a growing list of hundreds of children, teens, athletes and celebrities whose unexpected deaths and injuries have been incorrectly blamed on COVID-19 shots.
Using the hashtag #diedsuddenly, online conspiracy theorists have flooded social media with news reports, obituaries and GoFundMe pages in recent months, leaving grieving families to wrestle with the lies.
There’s the 37-year-old Brazilian television host who collapsed live on air because of a congenital heart problem.
The 18-year-old unvaccinated bull rider who died from a rare disease.
The 32-year-old actress who died from bacterial infection complications.
The use of “died suddenly” — or a misspelled version of it — has surged more than 740% in tweets about vaccines over the past two months compared with the two previous months
The phrase’s explosion began with the late November debut of an online “documentary” by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.
“It’s kind of in-group language, kind of a wink wink, nudge nudge,” said Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.
“They’re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something — people do, in fact, die unexpectedly — and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.”
The campaign causes harm beyond just the internet, epidemiologist Dr. Katelyn Jetelina said.
“The real danger is that it ultimately leads to real world actions such as not vaccinating,
Rigorous study and real-world evidence from hundreds of millions of administered shots prove that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare and the risks associated with not getting vaccinated are far higher than the risks of vaccination.
But that hasn't stopped conspiracy theorists from lobbing a variety of untrue accusations at the vaccines.
The “Died Suddenly” film features a montage of headlines found on Google to falsely suggest they prove that sudden deaths have “never happened like this until now.”
The film has amassed more than 20 million views on an alternative video sharing website, and its companion Twitter account posts about more deaths and injuries daily.
An AP review of more than 100 tweets from the account in December and January found that claims about the cases being vaccine related were largely unsubstantiated and, in some cases, contradicted by public information.
Some of the people featured died of genetic disorders, drug overdoses, flu complications or suicide.
One died in a surfing accident.
Many of the posts online cite no evidence except that the person who died had been vaccinated at some point in the past, using a common disinformation strategy known as post hoc fallacy.
Some claims about those who’ve suffered heart issues also weaponize a kernel of truth — that COVID-19 vaccines can cause rare heart inflammation issues, myocarditis or pericarditis, especially in young men.
Medical experts say these cases are typically mild and the benefits of immunization far outweigh the risks.
The narrative also has leveraged high-profile moments like the collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin as he suffered cardiac arrest during a game last month after a fierce blow to his chest.
But sudden cardiac arrest has long been a prominent cause of death in the U.S. — and medical experts agree the vaccine didn’t cause Hamlin’s injury.
For some families, the misinformation represents a sideshow to their real focus: understanding why their loved ones died and preventing similar tragedies.
Clint Erickson's son, Tyler, died in September just before his 18th birthday while golfing near their home in Florida.
The family knows his heart stopped but still doesn't know exactly why.
Tyler wasn't vaccinated, but his story appeared in the “Died Suddenly” film nonetheless.
“It bothers me, him being used in that way,” Erickson said.
But “the biggest personal issue I have is trying to find an answer or a closure to what caused this.”
Jessica Day-Weaver said it was upsetting to see people exploiting her daughter's death when they knew nothing about her.
They didn't know that she loved people so much she would hug strangers at Walmart, or that she had just learned how to snap her fingers.
Still, Jessica said, “I wouldn't wish the loss of a child on anybody. Even them.”
THE CRUELTY OF CONSPIRACY THEORY ADDICTION
'Died suddenly' posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies
A growing online conspiracy theory is using the tagline “died suddenly” to baselessly claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver’s autopsy may take weeks.
But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine.
A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia’s name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji.
A Facebook user messaged her mother, Jessica Day-Weaver, to call her a “murderer” for having her child vaccinated.
In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalisations with respiratory viruses.
“The doctors haven’t given us any information other than it was due to all of her chronic conditions.
There was never a thought that it could be from the vaccine," Jessica said of her daughter's death.
But those facts didn’t matter online, where Anastasia was swiftly added to a growing list of hundreds of children, teens, athletes and celebrities whose unexpected deaths and injuries have been incorrectly blamed on COVID-19 shots.
Using the hashtag #diedsuddenly, online conspiracy theorists have flooded social media with news reports, obituaries and GoFundMe pages in recent months, leaving grieving families to wrestle with the lies.
There’s the 37-year-old Brazilian television host who collapsed live on air because of a congenital heart problem.
The 18-year-old unvaccinated bull rider who died from a rare disease.
The 32-year-old actress who died from bacterial infection complications.
The use of “died suddenly” — or a misspelled version of it — has surged more than 740% in tweets about vaccines over the past two months compared with the two previous months
The phrase’s explosion began with the late November debut of an online “documentary” by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.
“It’s kind of in-group language, kind of a wink wink, nudge nudge,” said Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.
“They’re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something — people do, in fact, die unexpectedly — and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.”
The campaign causes harm beyond just the internet, epidemiologist Dr. Katelyn Jetelina said.
“The real danger is that it ultimately leads to real world actions such as not vaccinating,
Rigorous study and real-world evidence from hundreds of millions of administered shots prove that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare and the risks associated with not getting vaccinated are far higher than the risks of vaccination.
But that hasn't stopped conspiracy theorists from lobbing a variety of untrue accusations at the vaccines.
The “Died Suddenly” film features a montage of headlines found on Google to falsely suggest they prove that sudden deaths have “never happened like this until now.”
The film has amassed more than 20 million views on an alternative video sharing website, and its companion Twitter account posts about more deaths and injuries daily.
An AP review of more than 100 tweets from the account in December and January found that claims about the cases being vaccine related were largely unsubstantiated and, in some cases, contradicted by public information.
Some of the people featured died of genetic disorders, drug overdoses, flu complications or suicide.
One died in a surfing accident.
Many of the posts online cite no evidence except that the person who died had been vaccinated at some point in the past, using a common disinformation strategy known as post hoc fallacy.
Some claims about those who’ve suffered heart issues also weaponize a kernel of truth — that COVID-19 vaccines can cause rare heart inflammation issues, myocarditis or pericarditis, especially in young men.
Medical experts say these cases are typically mild and the benefits of immunization far outweigh the risks.
The narrative also has leveraged high-profile moments like the collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin as he suffered cardiac arrest during a game last month after a fierce blow to his chest.
But sudden cardiac arrest has long been a prominent cause of death in the U.S. — and medical experts agree the vaccine didn’t cause Hamlin’s injury.
For some families, the misinformation represents a sideshow to their real focus: understanding why their loved ones died and preventing similar tragedies.
Clint Erickson's son, Tyler, died in September just before his 18th birthday while golfing near their home in Florida.
The family knows his heart stopped but still doesn't know exactly why.
Tyler wasn't vaccinated, but his story appeared in the “Died Suddenly” film nonetheless.
“It bothers me, him being used in that way,” Erickson said.
But “the biggest personal issue I have is trying to find an answer or a closure to what caused this.”
Jessica Day-Weaver said it was upsetting to see people exploiting her daughter's death when they knew nothing about her.
They didn't know that she loved people so much she would hug strangers at Walmart, or that she had just learned how to snap her fingers.
Still, Jessica said, “I wouldn't wish the loss of a child on anybody. Even them.”
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I'm sure one day you will give up on this foolish parade of yours.
This is a Chat Site...Yet.....You NEVER add anything of Value to this site.
Just a constant barrage of meaningless links.... no one wants to know about. Haven't you clicked yet?
NO ONE GIVES A FCUK ABOUT YOUR LINKS.!
Talk like Chris.. The REAL NITTY GRITTY CHRIS.?...Have a laugh...Share some Music...!
But Oh no...'too hard for you?