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DocFeind on July 31, 2021 | hide | past | favorite



See also:

"An ex-Google employee was behind an online campaign to make a coronavirus conspiracy video go viral"

http://www.businessinsider.com/plandemic-google-employee-zac...

Why was Plandemic produced in the first place? Was the creator trying to build a following of gullible people that he could sell stuff to later? Did he just want to make the world burn for the lulz?

I can understand poor thinkers parroting misinformation propaganda, but not random people being creators.


> Why was COVID disinformation produced in the first place?

There are documented cases of "influencers" being approached to spread false information by a PR agency linked to a foreign government (1) Russia in this case, but this is a game that many can play, and likely do.

I think that the idea is "zero sum" thinking: If they lose, then I win. And also a willingness to "play with fire" for reckless short-term gain, forgetting the old adage "Do not call up that which you cannot put down."

1) This story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-57928647

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/25/influencers-sa...

https://www.businessinsider.com/agency-suspected-russia-ties...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformati...


Probably conviction that they've found the global conspiracy, with the psychology behind that conviction described here: https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...




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