Amid COVID-19 coronavirus stay-at-home orders in the U.S., Snopes writers Alex Kasprak and Bethania Palma pieced together "a sometimes second-by-second chronology" of the Facebook users who shared invites to anti-lockdown rallies in one hotspot: Michigan.
By combining that data with “hundreds of pages of campaign-finance records and local news reports,” the writers demonstrated that the push came from “a small circle of fervent activists who have been protesting almost constantly since well before the onset of the pandemic.” The ladder of players in this investigation rises all the way to the family of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Numerous protests have created “the perception of widespread discontent with public health measures largely supported by the American populace, and are part of a campaign playbook self-evidently resulting in an increasingly radicalized base of Trump supporters as the 2020 general election approaches.”
No comments:
Post a Comment