Bill Gates, at Odds With Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-virus-conspiracy-theories.html
What Jamie wrote
This is despicable behavior.
Misinformation about Mr. Gates is now the most widespread of all coronavirus falsehoods tracked by Zignal Labs, a media analysis company. The misinformation includes more than 16,000 posts on Facebook this year about Mr. Gates and the virus that were liked and commented on nearly 900,000 times, according to a New York Times analysis. On YouTube, the 10 most popular videos spreading lies about Mr. Gates posted in March and April were viewed almost five million times.
There is a group of, for lack of a better term I'll call them anarchists, that love to put misinformation like this into the world. Social media has done them the biggest favor that they could ever hoped for by giving them huge leverage as such a low cost. Your best bet is to stay off of those platforms. The platforms will never get ahead of this cat and mouse game.
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