By Julia Harte, Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and Elizabeth Culliford WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly after rampaging Trump supporters attacked the U.S. C.
By Julia Harte, Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and Elizabeth Culliford WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly after rampaging Trump supporters attacked the U.S. C.
Misinformation messengers pivot from election fraud to peddling vaccine conspiracy theories.
Sidney Powell, a lawyer, is making unsubstantiated claims about the coronavirus vaccine on social media.Credit.Ben Margot/Associated Press
Dec. 16, 2020
Sidney Powell, a lawyer who was part of President Trump’s legal team, spread a conspiracy theory last month about election fraud. For days, she claimed that she would “release the Kraken” by showing voluminous evidence that Mr. Trump had won the election by a landslide.
But after her assertions were widely derided and failed to gain legal traction, Ms. Powell started talking about a new topic. On Dec. 4, she posted a link on Twitter with misinformation that said that the population would be split into the vaccinated and the unvaccinated and that “big government” could surveil those who were unvaccinated.