contrainian, who insisted covid wasn t a thing, and hand-picked a surgeon general for the state after the man came forward as a group of quacks who insisted some disease is caused by sex with demons and if we could just get a handle on that problem, then why would you need vaccines. stop it with the demon sex, you perverts. ron desantis is running for president in large part on the basis of his far sighted wisdom on covid in florida. his hand-picked surgeon general in florida came out and made it the official recommendation of the state of florida that young men definitely shouldn t be vaccinated against covid. why? because it s so dangerous. he was later found to have falsified the data that supposedly justified that conclusion. he remains the surgeon general of florida today. and why wouldn t he? ron desantis loves him in that
assault rifles that fire real bullets. california last year and illinois now areet trying at th state level to at least block the marketing of those, but the guns exist, and gun groups and their republicand supporters a very much opposed even to trying to regulate the advertising around this new product. i understand i think i understand perhaps as well as anyone i mha going to guess tha national level americano polits is hurly-burly right now, but i m also here to tell you what s going in in the states in these cases is just as wild. and it doesn t get as much attention even when it directly illuminates or relates to or the manifestation of what s going on at the national level. take the t fully functional military-style assault rifle for children for example one.
asvertising, but it s not like they re no longer claiming this is an assault rifle for babies. i mean, they could change their marketing of it. they could have started to say they re making this mini sized assault rifle for people with usually short arms. hey, are you built like a t-rex, hard time reaching the steeral wheels and pedals at the same time, we ve got the assault rifle for you. can t handle a gun that weighs more than 2 pounds, find yourself unable to lift a carton of milk anymore, don t worry, doesn t mean you shouldn t have a semiautomatic rifle of your dreams. it s specifically designed for you, great great grandma. when they dropped the pacifier logo explicitly targeting the gun to the teething toddler market, that might have seemed like it was, you know, signaling they were abandoning the whole idea of assault rifles for kids, but, esno, it turns out they ju dropped the pacifier logos and
with lower body strength. can t handle a gun that weighs more than two pounds? find yourself unable to lift a carton of milk anymore? don t worry, it doesn t mean you shouldn t have a semiautomatic blowback action assault rifle of your dreams. specifically designed for you, great great grandma. when they drop to the pacifier logo, explicitly targeting the gun to the teething towns are market, that might have seemed like it was signaling they were abandoning the whole idea of assault rifles for kids. it turns out they just dropped the pacifier logos and the cartoon font they are making clear it is not just where people with little, tiny arms, not just for people with very poor upper body strength, it is still definitely for preschool. stilthe reason you can tell it s there targeted market for this gun, it is because this is the image that pops up on this last splash page of their website.
in many ways, we can learn from the people that push conspiracy theories and are successful in promoting harmful disinformation, how to investigate it and tackle it and expose it. because, actually, you have to weaponise the same things, the same techniques they use human stories, bringing stories to life, capturing people s attention to explain this to them. you want to be showing the real world impact it has, you want to show people how this affects all of our lives, and you want to really expose the tactics and how it works so people can think, 0h, hang on a second. i don t really want to be conned by this person, either. and that doesn t mean you shouldn t ask questions of the mainstream media the media, just as you do, you know, every time you do this programme but you should be able to also spot when people are misleading you on purpose and benefiting from it. marianna spring, thank you so much. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinio