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'''Plandemic''' is a 22-minute [[conspiracy theory]] video<ref name="WaPo">{{Cite news |last=aNDREWS |first=Travis M |last2=M |first2=rews closeTravis |last3=music |first3=rewsPop culture reporter covering |last4=movies |last5=TV |last6=comedy |last7=cultureEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow |first7=celebrity |title=Facebook and other companies are removing viral ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video |language=en |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/07/plandemic-youtube-facebook-vimeo-remove/ |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> released in May 2020, promoting misinformation around the [[2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic]]. It is claimed to be the trailer for an upcoming full-length film. The video stars disgraced former researcher turned anti-vaccination activist [[Judy Mikovits]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Who is Judy Mikovits, and what does she have to do with Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus?|url=https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/05/who-is-judy-mikovits-and-what-does-she-have-to-do-with-anthony-fauci-and-the-coronavirus.html|date=2020-05-07|website=pennlive|language=en|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> and was directed by Mikki Willis.
'''Plandemic''' is a 22-minute [[conspiracy theory]] video<ref name="WaPo">{{Cite news |last=aNDREWS |first=Travis M |last2=M |first2=rews closeTravis |last3=music |first3=rewsPop culture reporter covering |last4=movies |last5=TV |last6=comedy |last7=cultureEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow |first7=celebrity |title=Facebook and other companies are removing viral ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video |language=en |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/07/plandemic-youtube-facebook-vimeo-remove/ |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> released in May 2020, promoting misinformation around the [[2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic]]. It is claimed to be the trailer for an upcoming full-length film. The video stars former researcher turned anti-vaccination activist [[Judy Mikovits]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Who is Judy Mikovits, and what does she have to do with Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus?|url=https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/05/who-is-judy-mikovits-and-what-does-she-have-to-do-with-anthony-fauci-and-the-coronavirus.html|date=2020-05-07|website=pennlive|language=en|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> and was directed by Mikki Willis.


The video spread rapidly on social media<ref name="TechCrunch">{{Cite news |title=Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire |language=en-US |url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/plandemic-video-judy-mikovits/ |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> before being removed from [[Facebook]], [[YouTube]] and [[Vimeo]] due to concerns over its misleading content and promotion of false information.<ref name="WaPo" /> [[Twitter]] flagged it as "unsafe" and blocked the hashtags #PlagueOfCorruption and #Plandemicmovie from trends and searches.<ref>{{Cite news |title=As '#Plandemic' goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of 'dangerous' claims |language=en |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/plandemic-goes-viral-those-targeted-discredited-scientist-s-crusade-warn-n1202361 |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>
The video spread rapidly on social media<ref name="TechCrunch">{{Cite news |title=Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire |language=en-US |url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/plandemic-video-judy-mikovits/ |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> before being removed from [[Facebook]], [[YouTube]] and [[Vimeo]] due to concerns over its misleading content and promotion of false information.<ref name="WaPo" /> [[Twitter]] flagged it as "unsafe" and blocked the hashtags #PlagueOfCorruption and #Plandemicmovie from trends and searches.<ref>{{Cite news |title=As '#Plandemic' goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of 'dangerous' claims |language=en |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/plandemic-goes-viral-those-targeted-discredited-scientist-s-crusade-warn-n1202361 |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>

Revision as of 08:52, 8 May 2020

Plandemic

Plandemic is a 22-minute conspiracy theory video[1] released in May 2020, promoting misinformation around the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. It is claimed to be the trailer for an upcoming full-length film. The video stars former researcher turned anti-vaccination activist Judy Mikovits[2] and was directed by Mikki Willis.

The video spread rapidly on social media[3] before being removed from Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo due to concerns over its misleading content and promotion of false information.[1] Twitter flagged it as "unsafe" and blocked the hashtags #PlagueOfCorruption and #Plandemicmovie from trends and searches.[4]

Multiple media outlets have branded the film as misinformation and "a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories".[5][6][7]

Contents

The video contains presents is claims from a conspiracist perspective that vaccines are "a money-making enterprise that causes medical harm".[3] It takes the form of an interview between Willis and Mikovits in which Mikovits makes numerous unsupported or false claims around coronavirus, and her own controversial history.[8] Fact-checker Politifact highlighted eight false or misleading claims including:[8]

  • That Mikovits was held in jail without charge. Mikovits was briefly held on remand after an accusation of theft from her former employer, the Whittemore Peterson Institute, but charges were dropped. There is no evidence to support her claim that notebooks removed from the Institute were "planted" or that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and its director Anthony Fauci bribed investigators. A NIAID spokesman stated: "The National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are focused on critical research aimed at ending the COVID-19 pandemic and preventing further deaths," a spokesperson said in a statement. "We are not engaging in tactics by some seeking to derail our efforts."
  • That the virus was manipulated. An article in Nature analyses the likely origins and finds that "Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus".[9]
  • That the virus occureed from SARS 1 within a decade and that this is inconsistent with natural causes. This is incorrect: SARS-CoV-2 is similar but unrelated to SARS-CoV (SARS-1), with only 79% genetic similarity.[10]
  • That hospitals receive "$13,000 from Medicare if you call it COVID-19" when a patient dies. This claim, which had previously been promoted by The American Spectator and WorldNetDaily,[11] was rated "half true" by Politifact[12] and Snopes:[13] payments are made but the amount is open to dispute and there is no evidence that this influences diagnosis and in fact the evidence suggests that COVID-19 is, if anything, under-diagnosed.[14]
  • That hydroxychloroquine is ‘effective against these families of viruses’. This claim originates with work by Didier Raoult, which has subsequently received a "statement of concern" from the editors of the journal in which it was published.[15][16] An NIH study failed to show any benefit but did identify an increased risk of cardiac death from hydroxychloroquine.[17]
  • That flu vaccines increase the odds by 36% of getting COVID-19’. As an anti-vaccine activist, this claim is unsurprising from Mikovits, but is rated untrue by FactCheck.org,[18] Health Feedback,[19] and others. The claim originates in a disputed paper that predates the COVID-19 pandemic and the claim that the flu vaccine increases odds by 36% does not appear in the original paper at all, but was added by the website disabledveterans.org.[19]
  • That "if you’ve ever had a flu vaccine, you were injected with coronaviruses". This has also been debunked,[20][21] the flu shot contains no coronaviruses.[22]
  • That "wearing the mask literally activates your own virus. You’re getting sick from your own reactivated coronavirus expressions." This claim is incoherent and unsupported by evidence. Masks prevent airborne transmission of the virus especially during the asymptomatic period (up to 14 days) when carriers may not even be aware they have the disease.

Mikovits also alludes to a number of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories centring on Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, notably the idea that Gates is implicated in creating the disease in order to profit from an eventual vaccine,[3] and makes false and unsupported claims that beaches should remain open as "healing microbes in the saltwater" and "sequences" in the sand can "protect against the coronavirus".[3]

Willis' previous credits include numerous conspiracy theorist videos[8] as well as cinematography on Neurons to Nirvana, a film making therapeutic claims about psychedelic drugs.

--See also==

  • Vaxxed, another film promoting a discredited anti-vaccinationist.


References

  1. ^ a b aNDREWS, Travis M; M, rews closeTravis; music, rewsPop culture reporter covering; movies; TV; comedy; cultureEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow, celebrity. "Facebook and other companies are removing viral 'Plandemic' conspiracy video". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  2. ^ "Who is Judy Mikovits, and what does she have to do with Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus?". pennlive. 2020-05-07. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  3. ^ a b c d "Platforms scramble as 'Plandemic' conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  4. ^ "As '#Plandemic' goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of 'dangerous' claims". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  5. ^ Graham, Megan (2020-05-07). "Facebook, YouTube and other platforms are struggling to remove new pandemic conspiracy video". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  6. ^ "As '#Plandemic' goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of 'dangerous' claims". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  7. ^ Shepherd, Marshall. "Why People Cling To Conspiracy Theories Like 'Plandemic'". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  8. ^ a b c Washington, District of Columbia 1100 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 1300B; Dc 20036. "PolitiFact - Fact-checking 'Plandemic': A documentary full of false conspiracy theories about the coronavirus". @politifact. Retrieved 2020-05-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Andersen, Kristian G.; Rambaut, Andrew; Lipkin, W. Ian; Holmes, Edward C.; Garry, Robert F. (2020-04). "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2". Nature Medicine. 26 (4): 450–452. doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9. ISSN 1546-170X. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Lu, Roujian; Zhao, Xiang; Li, Juan; Niu, Peihua; Yang, Bo; Wu, Honglong; Wang, Wenling; Song, Hao; Huang, Baoying; Zhu, Na; Bi, Yuhai (2020-02-22). "Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding". The Lancet. 395 (10224): 565–574. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30251-8. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 32007145.
  11. ^ Rogers, Michelle. "Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  12. ^ Washington, District of Columbia 1100 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 1300B; Dc 20036. "PolitiFact - Fact-check: Hospitals and COVID-19 payments". @politifact. Retrieved 2020-05-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Is Medicare Paying Hospitals $13K for Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19, $39K for Those on Ventilators?". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  14. ^ Richardson, Ian. "Fact check: Is US coronavirus death toll inflated? Experts agree it's likely the opposite". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  15. ^ retractionwatch.com https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/06/hydroxychlorine-covid-19-study-did-not-meet-publishing-societys-expected-standard/. Retrieved 2020-05-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "Journal Publisher Concerned over Hydroxychloroquine Study". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ "NIH Panel Recommends Against Drug Combination Promoted By Trump For COVID-19". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  18. ^ Fichera, Angelo (2020-04-27). "No Evidence That Flu Shot Increases Risk of COVID-19". FactCheck.org. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  19. ^ a b "Claim that flu vaccine increases coronavirus infection is unsupported, misinterprets scientific studies". Health Feedback. 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  20. ^ Richardson, Ian. "Fact check: Getting flu shot doesn't make you more (or less) likely to get the coronavirus". Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  21. ^ "False claim: The flu vaccine causes the new coronavirus". Reuters. 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  22. ^ CDC (2020-04-28). "Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 2020-05-08.

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