Cassidy Lane Cannella, the 18-year old daughter of Lani and Randy Cannella, was crowned Miss Iberville Parish June 11 at a tea hosted by the Plaquemine Service League at the Bayou Jacob Road home of Mr. and Mrs. Josh Wille.
the third county in america to declare covid disinformation a public health crisis. joining me now cofounder and medical director of good stock consulting and associate professor at the university of virginia. also with me, mother jones senior senior editor, kira butler. i want you to talk to me about the power dynamic behind covid disinformation. who is benefiting from this? who is making money from these conspiracies? and whose fears is it that are being exploited? so there s an easy answer to that and it s the purveyors of misinformation making money. these are folks selling essential oils as cures for covid. they re selling all different kinds of treatments beyond the just ivermectin we hear about. they are raking it in, and the people who are falling prey to this are people who are seeing these folks in their social media feeds, on facebook, tiktok, instagram, and other
and even the tens of thousands. these folks are swapping tips who are showing each other the forms that their employers have given them to submit a request for a religious exemption for a vaccine mandate. and they re telling each other how to evade how to answer various questions and how to evade filters. and, you know, one of the most common questions is have you gotten a vaccine in the past, and the folks in these groups are advising each other not to even answer that question. they say that if you simply don t answer that question, then your employer can t come back and accuse you of having an inconsistent position. these are the kind of tips they re swapping in these groups. kira, i got to say your skepticism of how successful they are or aren t really says it all. thank you both so much. still to come, is the gop now the party of frautds?