I remember seeing the default subs fucking bursting at the seems with anti-anti-vaxxer posts and unironically wishing for the deaths of children to convince people of the wonders of vaccination. Obviously a lot of it was astroturfing, but the shear fucking amount of it convinced me a lot of people really are just looking for solace in a crazy world and have no opinions beyond what they’re told to think.
At first I thought it was just to ban “harmful” conspiracies on the wider net (which it did, any reference to a conspiracy in most places got you labeled a flat earth antivaxxer). But with the ‘rona we start to see the full extent of propaganda campaigns like the one you mention OP.
I remember seeing the default subs fucking bursting at the seems with anti-anti-vaxxer posts and unironically wishing for the deaths of children to convince people of the wonders of vaccination. Obviously a lot of it was astroturfing, but the shear fucking amount of it convinced me a lot of people really are just looking for solace in a crazy world and have no opinions beyond what they’re told to think.
At first I thought it was just to ban “harmful” conspiracies on the wider net (which it did, any reference to a conspiracy in most places got you labeled a flat earth antivaxxer). But with the ‘rona we start to see the full extent of propaganda campaigns like the one you mention OP.
Shits fucked