The post is here: The Global Disinformation Index:
An interesting section involves the way the "Anti-5G" movement got started, claiming that 5G phones cause cancer.
I invite interested parties to review the most interesting Adversarial Narrative section at that website]
Some excerpts on how insane beliefs acquire credibility simply by repeating them via paranoid innuendo:
July 26, 2016: Twelve days after the FCC vote, InPower Movement, ‘an open source and crowd-funded movement’ with 9.3K YouTube subscribers, uploaded ‘The Truth About 5G’. The video, which has been viewed over 112,000 times, asks YouTube users, ‘Is there a clandestine force working behind the scenes in the United States, censoring truth about the “5G” rollout? Watch this — then decide.’24...
...October 2017: The concept migrates to Reddit’s r/conspiracy, a popular subreddit featuring 870,000 members, where it gained increasing toxicity in a post titled “5G and the smart grid is the New World Order”.28...
...March 2018: In the United Kingdom, former footballer-turned-conspiracy theorist David Icke began weighing in, hosting an article on his website ‘5G: Harmful effects of a new technology’,32 which featured meta tags like mind control and technology. The author of the article, Jon Rappoport,33 would soon have a chance to traffc the narrative through another infuential mouthpiece, Alex Jones...
...May 2018: Other conspiracy communities like QAnon began to echo concerns about the negative impacts of 5G smart grids on personal health and the environment.36 Meanwhile, petitions like ‘Stop the Attempted Genocide of the American People with 5G Radiation Cell Towers’, posted to WhiteHouse.gov,37 or ‘Let’s Make America SAFE Again! No Small Cells in our Neighborhoods’,38 posted to Change.org, and ‘Stop 5G!’,39 posted to Avaaz.org, lent further credence to the notion that anti-5G sentiment was increasing in popularity in mainstream conversations.
May 31, 2018: RT America broadcast the frst of at least eight news segments preying upon concerns about 5G, ‘Cancer risk? 5G Wireless speeds could be dangerous’.40 For state-sponsored media operations like RT, the 5G narrative shows how countries like Russia can pick up on existing disinformation campaigns in an attempt to sow social discord and increase the perception of popularity of certain concepts or sentiments.41...
...May 21, 2019: Fox News Host Tucker Carlson raises the question: ‘Most of the debate over 5G is centred on China, whether its state-run companies have too much infuence in this strategically important feld. But there is another even more basic question that has yet to be answered, are 5G networks medically safe?’.46
Of course there was at the beginning, no evidence whatsoever that 5G and cancer were in any way related.
And so on...all the usual players and of course, the infamous "New World Order."
I think Joe Biden's statement is clear and unambiguous.
In a lecture I saw a few years back by the Princeton neuroscientist Sam Wang, he pointed out that a lie gains credibility not by examination of the facts, but by the number of times it is repeated, both by people who
know its a lie and the liars themselves.
A word to the wise.
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