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Doctor Mike

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

You're debunking this pandemic.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Well, let me push back on that, because I can give you my perspective on that.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

So we did this thing called the Virality Project during COVID, where we were studying rumors that went viral about the vaccine.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And I think just prior to that starting, prior to the, right, because plandemic was prior to the vaccine rollout.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Plandemic was when the lockdowns were starting.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

It was like the beaches were closed in California.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

I remember this because she talks about the healing microbes in the sand.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Yes, her.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Okay, so when we started looking at the COVID conversation, we actually started looking at it internationally.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

We were very curious about how different

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

governments were talking about it, because we were looking at, me specifically, I was looking at how China was messaging it, because remember I mentioned I do a lot of work on state actors.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

China and the US were having this kind of propaganda war about, did it originate in Fort Detrick?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

That was actually a whole thing, that the Wolf Warriors, which were these accounts that the Chinese Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Ministry of China,

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

runs these social media, these Twitter accounts that are their diplomats actually, but they tweet like shit posters.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And it is really something to see because American government accounts prior to this administration really didn't communicate like that.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

So they're out there like, you know, why is the American government lying?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

You know, COVID originated in Fort Detrick.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And what they would do is they would go and they would grab these random American conspiracy theorists who were like, COVID is a bioweapon that originated in Fort Detrick.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And they're like, look, some Americans are saying it.