Astroturfing

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As a boy growing up in Fox Creek, northern Alberta, Jay Van Bavel learned how to give a firm handshake. Guys would be teased if they had a flimsy grip. It was that masculine, alpha-male thing.That small-town boy grew up to become a social neuroscience professor at New York University…

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The United States is at a critical moment in the COVID-crisis. This week, the nation is likely to surpass 100,000 deaths and new hotspots in the south and midwest are developing. Forty-two states have either started “reopening” their economies or imminently plan to do so without putting in place essential…

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Subscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health Newsletter Story at-a-glance - The Rockefeller Foundation’s white paper, “National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan” lays out a strategic framework that is clearly intended to become part of a permanent surveillance and social control structure that severely limits personal liberty and freedom of choice…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Shopping without a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t recommended by health experts, but that’s exactly what a midstate lawmaker said he did recently in a Facebook post. State Representative Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) calls the resulting backlash from that post an organized effort by leftist groups…

Simon Chandler writes on Forbes: Gun advocacy and conservative groups are responsible for astroturfing the reopen America campaign that has swept the US in recent days, according to research from cybersecurity experts. Since April 15, protests against coronavirus lockdown measures have been sweeping across various American states. Informally unified under…

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