Engineered Doubt 🧵
The goal isn’t to convince you ivermectin works.
The goal is to convince you nothing else does.
That your doctors are corrupt.
Your regulators compromised.
That NIH, CDC, and WHO are part of a global plot.
The drug is a symbol.
The strategy is demoralization.
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The goal isn’t to convince you ivermectin works.
The goal is to convince you nothing else does.
That your doctors are corrupt.
Your regulators compromised.
That NIH, CDC, and WHO are part of a global plot.
The drug is a symbol.
The strategy is demoralization.
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Start with the image.
Search ivermectin on Yandex.
What you get is far from scientific consensus.
You get a front page of praise, miracle cures, and purchasing options.
Russian, English, black-market, gray-market packaged as truth.
It’s deliberate.
It’s not information. It’s bait.
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Search ivermectin on Yandex.
What you get is far from scientific consensus.
You get a front page of praise, miracle cures, and purchasing options.
Russian, English, black-market, gray-market packaged as truth.
It’s deliberate.
It’s not information. It’s bait.
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Yandex isn’t a search engine.
It’s an instrument.
A soft weapon of narrative warfare.
It reflects Kremlin-aligned information architecture, pushing anti-Western, anti-scientific sentiment cloaked in populist aesthetics.
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It’s an instrument.
A soft weapon of narrative warfare.
It reflects Kremlin-aligned information architecture, pushing anti-Western, anti-scientific sentiment cloaked in populist aesthetics.
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It doesn’t need to prove anything.
It just needs to blur the line between science and paranoia.
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It just needs to blur the line between science and paranoia.
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On Telegram, the ivermectin myth metastasizes.
The messaging is slick, localized, multilingual.
Posts in English, Spanish, Russian, French circulate in health freedom channels and COVID disinfo hubs.
It’s not grassroots.
It’s infrastructure.
Repeatable.
Coordinated.
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The messaging is slick, localized, multilingual.
Posts in English, Spanish, Russian, French circulate in health freedom channels and COVID disinfo hubs.
It’s not grassroots.
It’s infrastructure.
Repeatable.
Coordinated.
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These channels push ivermectin. They also push vaccine distrust.
Climate disinformation.
NATO panic.
Biolab conspiracies.
The same networks questioning mRNA are boosting Russian battlefield narratives.
This is hybrid propaganda: political, pharmaceutical, and memetic.
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Climate disinformation.
NATO panic.
Biolab conspiracies.
The same networks questioning mRNA are boosting Russian battlefield narratives.
This is hybrid propaganda: political, pharmaceutical, and memetic.
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America’s vulnerability isn’t medical.
It’s informational now.
You can’t run a mass vaccination campaign in a country where a third of the population thinks the CDC is the enemy and Google is a psyop.
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It’s informational now.
You can’t run a mass vaccination campaign in a country where a third of the population thinks the CDC is the enemy and Google is a psyop.
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Why ivermectin?
Because it’s cheap.
Because it’s old.
Because it sounds just plausible enough.
Because it became a totem for every frustration about lockdowns and mandates.
A weaponized folk remedy.
Pitched as rebellion.
Sold as liberation.
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Because it’s cheap.
Because it’s old.
Because it sounds just plausible enough.
Because it became a totem for every frustration about lockdowns and mandates.
A weaponized folk remedy.
Pitched as rebellion.
Sold as liberation.
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Russian media gave it oxygen.
Botnets boosted contrarian doctors.
State sponsored trolls pushed antivax memes while boosting testimonials.
The American discourse turned into a psy-op testing ground.
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Botnets boosted contrarian doctors.
State sponsored trolls pushed antivax memes while boosting testimonials.
The American discourse turned into a psy-op testing ground.
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Public health cannot function when truth is optional.
The next pandemic will hit a population that no longer believes in science.
A population primed to believe cures are hidden and harm is deliberate.
A battlefield of minds pre infected with doubt.
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The next pandemic will hit a population that no longer believes in science.
A population primed to believe cures are hidden and harm is deliberate.
A battlefield of minds pre infected with doubt.
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Fighting pandemics now requires counter-disinformation strategy.
Cognitive immunization.
Not just treatment.
Inoculation against the next psy-op.
Cuz right now the real epidemic is engineered distrust.
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Cognitive immunization.
Not just treatment.
Inoculation against the next psy-op.
Cuz right now the real epidemic is engineered distrust.
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