see url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/29/social-media-california-right-trump/
see full article...Interesting report on how the Trump style GOP
extremist activists are circumventing or undermining mass social media
and putting out more misinformation on vaccines, the pandemic and the
wearing of masks, and all sorts of conspiracy theories not at all based
on fact; and attempts at discrediting those who disagree with their
views...Over 20 million Americans believe in Qanon apparently, most of
them members of the retrogressive and retrograde party called the
Republicans...Whatever happened to Jesus and Christianity? Like the
Ancient Romans, they got bored with their old Roman Gods and along came
Christianity which was something novel, new and consistent at the
time...in the 4th Century...A.D. So...now, instead of staying "in" to
Christianity...they are turning into heretics and heathens...😉 Not
even the scientific method is of interest to them these days...or
creationism...
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Leaders with ties to the Capitol riot have shut down a local vaccine
site and paused plans for vaccine passports.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A week before California reopened its economy, a
group of 100 or so demonstrators gathered in front of the Orange County
Board of Supervisors here to decry lingering mask mandates and other
health restrictions.
Whipped up by a misleading campaign of social media promotion, doorstep
fliers and TV ads, they carried signs that read, “RIP COVID VAX VICTIMS”
and “My Body, My Choice, No Vax.” The previous month, more than 600
people had gathered in the same spot to protest a voluntary digital
vaccine passport — by falsely claiming it would be mandatory, comparing
it to Nazis forcing Jews to wear yellow stars.
“A year from now, I don’t want to be back at this board demanding they
repeal a requirement to donate a kidney,” local activist Peggy Hall said
into a microphone at the passport protest in May. “What’s next? You’re
going to be sterilized for the common good?”
Four of five county supervisors voted to put pause on any efforts to
create vaccine passports in the county that day, effectively killing the
plan. The lone holdout — a Democrat — says the others caved to the pressure.
Another day, another victory. California was emerging from the pandemic,
but for these activists, the battle — both online and off — was far from
over.
For years, social media companies have sought and failed to limit the
reach of misinformation and other harmful material spread on their
sites. That failure culminated in January when — after months of
allowing falsehoods about a stolen election to proliferate — the
companies kicked former president Donald Trump as, along with tens of
thousands of rank and-file followers and some prominent ones off their
platforms for inciting violence during the Capitol insurrection.
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