They died suddenly - then the anti-vax trolling started "Seven days, 18 hours, 39 minutes ago my beloved... died suddenly of cardiac arrest". When Victoria Brownworth logged onto Twitter to post these words about her partner of 23 years, she didn't know that two of them in particular would provoke a storm of online harassment.
Because, as Victoria waited at her home in Philadelphia on Sunday night for her wife's ashes to be delivered, a video titled Died Suddenly was about to drop.
In an hour and eight minutes of dramatic music and out-of-context news reports, the film tells a fictitious story of a dangerous vaccine killing off swathes of young people - all part of an imagined plot to depopulate the earth. BBC News
See also:
- China Covid: Record number of cases as virus surges nationwide BBC News
- Understanding and neutralising covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (open access) The BMJ
- UK experts helped shut down Covid lab leak theory - weeks after being told it might be true The Daily Telegraph
- Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm The Guardian
- Michelle Mone’s PPE denials v what we know The Guardian
- A Lasting Legacy of Covid: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths New York Times
- China expands lockdowns as COVID cases soar to daily record high Sky News
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