Doctor Mike
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And so it'd be these like Chinese government accounts.
that were doing this.
And so I was kind of following this propaganda war that was happening.
So we're studying these state actor communications.
And all of a sudden, we start to see Judy Mikovits, who is the plandemic lady,
just starting to pop up in a whole lot of these conspiratorial communities that I was paying attention to again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But she just she just started popping up because I happened to be looking at conspiracy theories that were feeding into these like state communications.
And all of a sudden, you know, it became very clear, you know, she was being kind of promoted.
She had this Twitter account, new Twitter account, was growing by like leaps and bounds, didn't look particularly authentic and just clearly being kind of like boosted.
And there were like, you know, there was like a GoFundMe to sort of support somebody who was kind of doing some boosting.
I wound up writing about this.
And the thing that was so interesting was like, Plandemic drops, and I wrote about this in the book, and Mickey Willis, who was the director, you know, he made something that like checked all the boxes, right?
It was compelling, it had cinematography, it had like the right hooks from a storytelling standpoint.
And he also did the thing where he's like, they are gonna take this down.
So you need to download it and you need to re-upload it and you need to get in on this because it's gonna be you who breaks through the censorship, which is how you enlist your army to do the thing, right?
And so I thought, okay, this is gonna be everywhere.
This is going everywhere, you know?
And so we gathered data, because Stanford Internet Observatories, we start gathering data.
We only gather open source data, but we can pull from at the time through CrowdTangle, every mention of Plandemic, every share of it, every reshare of the video.