These folks don’t believe in science.
The current campaign to preemptively sow distrust in a possible future COVID-19 vaccine by tying it to suspicion of Bill Gates' philanthropic motives is going to be a bigger problem in a year or two. https://t.co/PpcusECLB5
— Travis View (@travis_view) May 4, 2020
This is the exact nightmare scenario disinfo scholars, researchers, reporters, etc worried about.
— Jane Lytvynenko 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ (@JaneLytv) May 10, 2020
Bad info has gone international despite every fact checker in the world being on the same story. Issue isn’t lack of good info, it’s lack of good social media infrastructure. https://t.co/kAJeHDhV4o
"Where are the billionaire tech innovators when we need them?" asks Clive Irving.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 26, 2020
Adding, "Trump has no concept of what a wartime grand strategy looks like. He can never see beyond the daily news cycle." https://t.co/XiXOwuQvvY
2015: "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down," Trump told Alex Jones during an appearance on the https://t.co/8IT7mIDMjk proprietor's show. Jones shared the love, telling Trump that "my audience, 90% of them, they support you."
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 26, 2020
TODAY: https://t.co/9WTyWZdo5r
Alex Jones leads protesters in a chant of "Arrest Bill Gates" at a protest in Austin, Texas today. pic.twitter.com/FtAR199Wl2
— Travis View (@travis_view) April 26, 2020
— Ben Wieder (@benbwieder) April 26, 2020
5) The warnings came almost monthly. Among others, Bill Gates warned @VP Pence and other US officials at the Munich Security Conference in 2017. Then Bill Gates met with Trump personally in March 2018 to warn him of the pandemic threat….
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 17, 2020
Bill Gates is now the leading target for coronavirus falsehoods, says report https://t.co/SPYfduHleE pic.twitter.com/9v61ujUzK0
— The Verge (@verge) April 17, 2020
Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist, has now become the star of an explosion of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/1oKaG9bU2G
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 17, 2020
Sad! 