We have seen anti-vaxxer idiots constantly pushing that many public figures such as athletes, reporters, entertainers, etc. have died from the Covid vaccine. A good number of these people turn up not to even be dead. This is the latest example. Conspiracy Theorists Claim Not-Dead Reporter Died On Air From COVID Vaccine https://www.wonkette.com/conspiracy-theorists-claim-not-dead-reporter-died-on-air-from-covid-vaccine Of all the messed up things the anti-vaxxers, COVID conspiracists and QAnon people have done, one of the cruelest has been their obsession the past few years with finding obituaries of people who died from heart issues, or whose obituaries say they "died suddenly," and harassing their loved ones by baselessly claiming those people died from complications of the COVID vaccine, often accusing them of covering it up. It's absolutely evil. Now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it appears to have gotten a lot worse. The night before Christmas, a user calling herself "My Hero Q" posted a video of CNA reporter Julie Yoo collapsing on air, along with the caption "How many on air vax deaths before people who are vaxxed realize their situation? When they cut back to the news reporter the look on her face says she was just told to not say a word..." The answer to that question is "zero." Julie Yoo is very much alive and fainted on air back in November due to low blood sugar and dehydration. This woman didn't know anything about Julie Yoo's collapse, she didn't know if Yoo had been vaccinated or not, and she definitely did not know what the other anchor was "told" to do in response to an obviously awkward situation. She literally just made up an entire storyline that fit her agenda. The tweet was viewed 43.3K times (which is why I'm not linking to it) and retweeted 214 times, and while most of the responses pointed out that Yoo was in fact alive and had merely fainted, the quote tweets show lots of people going right along with what "My Hero Q" said. It's almost as if they are not quite as great at doing their own research as they claim to be. Anti-vaxxers have been using Yoo's on-air collapse as fodder since the beginning of November, but it appears this is the first time someone has claimed she actually died. In the tweet following this claim, "My Hero Q" took a picture of a 14-year-old kid who died from suicide back in July and claimed that he, too, had died of the COVID vaccine, because a headline about his death said that he "died suddenly." "I sent out over 20 tweets in the last week and a half about Children who #DiedSuddendly, [sic]" she tweeted. "Also video of everyday people, reporters & professional athletes dying or cannot compete anymore for unknown reasons. This is the last picture I am sending of a Child, so beautiful" Yes, so beautiful that she can't be bothered to actually look up why he died. This isn't just about one random woman's tweet. "My Hero Q" only has about 1,400 followers, and yet her tweets managed to reach over 40,000 people, many of whom clearly took her at her word. That's a pretty massive reach for such a small account. New Twitter is not just allowing misinformation, it sure seems like it's boosting it. Tweets that discourage people from getting a life-saving vaccine, that say living people are dead, and that retraumatize grieving families to further the world's stupidest agenda are not harmless. They hurt people and put them in actual danger. That "news" made up by some random QAnon devotee on Twitter is pretty much being presented on equal footing as actual, non-hypothetical news is also not harmless. People ought to be able to tell the difference between The Washington Post and Weekly World News, and pretty soon that is not going to be so easy, what with Elon Musk's plan to take blue checks away from journalists and bestow them upon anyone willing to pay eight dollars a month, including people like this.
Let's take a look at the latest bullshiat being peddled by anti-vax Covid-deniers. Fact Check-No evidence the CDC ‘quietly’ confirmed 118,000 people ‘died suddenly’ due to COVID-19 vaccines https://www.reuters.com/article/fac...ddenly-due-to-covid-19-vaccines-idUSL1N33A21Y There is no evidence that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed COVID-19 vaccines caused or contributed to 118,000 deaths in children and young adults, contrary to what is claimed in an article that is being shared online. The CDC has not yet found patterns indicating that vaccines are causing deaths, a CDC spokesperson told Reuters. An Instagram user said, “CDC: *clears throat*… Anyways, moving on…” while sharing an article headline that reads, “CDC quietly confirms at least 118k Children & Young Adults have ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA since the roll-out of the COVID Vaccines” (here). More examples of users sharing the headline can be seen (here) and (here). The headline appears to reference a film titled “Died Suddenly” that spread baseless assertions about the vaccines, debunked by Reuters in depth (here). A Google search for the headline in the viral posts leads to a Nov. 30 article with an identical headline on The Expose, which can be seen (here). It says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (www.oecd.org/about/) received data from the CDC that proves nearly 118,000 excess deaths in children and young adults and claims “the Covid-19 injections have been and are continuing to kill people.” The term “excess deaths” is defined as “the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods” (here). The excess-deaths numbers published by OECD referred to in the claims, however, represent all excess deaths from any cause. And the U.S. data from which the figures are drawn show that COVID-19 deaths are the main source of the excess. OECD TOTALS The OECD figures cited by the article can be seen (here), in the “Excess deaths by week, 2020-2022” table, filtering for the “0-44” age group and looking at the United States data. An OECD spokesperson told Reuters that the organization extracts figures published by the CDC, and that the data in the article “appears to be consistent with the data published by OECD which shows weekly excess deaths, that is the number of deaths in each week compared to an average of the deaths observed in the same week in the years 2015-19.” However, the figures show “the number of additional deaths recorded – from ALL causes – both sudden and otherwise – in each week compared to the average expected,” and do not relate to deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines as the article claims, the OECD spokesperson said. EXCESS COVID DEATHS Data on the CDC website shows excess mortality rates, for all ages, separated by those with or without COVID-19 (select “Excess deaths with and without COVID-19” under dashboard options, here). The graph shows that the spikes (blue) beyond the expected number of deaths (orange line) happen when COVID-19 is included in the death counts, whereas deaths excluding COVID-19 (green) appear aligned to what was expected (here) (imgur.com/FeapCRD). The data suggest excess mortality in the U.S. was due to COVID-19, not the vaccines. Indeed, an analysis from the Yale School of Public Health found that once COVID vaccines were introduced, excess deaths were lower in the most highly-vaccinated parts of the country as compared to regions with low vaccination rates (here). NO SPIKE TIED TO VACCINES “To date, CDC has not detected any unusual or unexpected patterns for deaths following immunization that would indicate that COVID vaccines are causing or contributing to deaths,” a CDC spokesperson told Reuters. Statements that imply that reports of deaths following vaccination equate to deaths caused by vaccination are scientifically inaccurate, misleading, and irresponsible.” After analysis of nearly 18,000 preliminary reports of death submitted to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system (VAERS) (here), and review of death certificates, autopsies and medical records, the CDC has “identified nine deaths causally associated with J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccination,” the agency states on its website. The Expose article includes other claims previously debunked by Reuters, including the false claims that vaccinated individuals are more likely to die than the unvaccinated and that vaccines are neither safe nor effective (here) (here), (here), (here) and (here). The Expose did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. VERDICT Misleading. The CDC did not confirm thousands of deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines.
GWB you're the one peddling misinformation. This is from the Kaiser Family Foundation, not some crackpot conspiracy site. Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now? The share of COVID-19 deaths among those who are vaccinated has risen. In fall 2021, about 3 in 10 adults dying of COVID-19 were vaccinated or boosted. But by January 2022, as we showed in an analysis posted on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, about 4 in 10 deaths were vaccinated or boosted. By April 2022, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data show that about 6 in 10 adults dying of COVID-19 were vaccinated or boosted, and that’s remained true through at least August 2022 (the most recent month of data). https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/
The entire intent of the vaccination program is to get to a point where such a large majority of the population is vaccinated so that the majority of Covid deaths switch to being vaccinated due to the dwindling number of the unvaccinated in the population. The additional component in this situation is boosters -- those who are merely vaccinated but not recently boosted are at risk for severe illness with Covid. Overall the total number of people dying of Covid each week will be declining as vaccination increases. The concept of Base Rate Fallacy and the intent of the Covid vaccination campaigns have been outlined numerous times in this forum. Getting to a point where the majority of Covid deaths are vaccinated (and the daily number of dying is much lower) is the intent of the vaccination campaign. It should be applauded as an accomplishment. This is coupled with the reality that in a highly vaccinated society the majority of the Covid deaths should be in the vulnerable elderly population rather than the prime of life population from age 25 to 60 (which still has the majority of deaths being unvaccinated as a cohort). Covid vaccinations in the U.S. saved 3.2 million American lives. This is a positive accomplishment. Unfortunately Covid vaccination misinformation is responsible for at least 230,000 American deaths -- all which were preventable. Sadly it should still be noted that the percentage of unvaccinated group dying of Covid is much greater than the vaccinated. With the unvaccinated deaths still 7 to 20 times the rate of the vaccinated across different age groups -- despite the raw numbers of the vaccinated dying (due to the majority being vaccinated) being greater. So get vaccinated and boosted -- all the information shows this is the best way to protect yourself from serious illness or death from Covid. To close out -- let's provide the first KFF chart from your link to provide better context and reality.
Once again within hours after a medical mishap with a celebrity or athlete the anti-vax Covid-deniers show up claiming the death was caused by the vaccine. Apparently in the case of Damar Hamlin these clowns failed to notice the guy is not dead. Anti-Vax MAGA Republicans Try To Link Damar Hamlin’s Injury To His ‘Vaccine Status’ https://newsone.com/4475440/damar-hamlin-vaccine-conspiracy/
At least reasonable people are calling these MAGA anti-vaxxers exactly what they are. “Sick disgusting human beings”: Right-wingers use NFL player’s collapse to push anti-vax conspiracy MAGA conservatives tried to score political points after the Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field https://www.salon.com/2023/01/03/si...players-collapse-to-push-anti-vax-conspiracy/ Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., condemned the conspiracy theorists for trying to use the alarming episode to advance their baseless claims. "Sick disgusting human beings. This isn't politics this is straight up heartless, cold, evil," he wrote on Twitter. Kinzinger specifically called out Kirk in another tweet, calling him the "biggest piece of human garbage that can possibly exist right now." "Using this tragedy for your BS lies is sick," he wrote. Public health experts also slammed the conspiracy theorists. "The antivaxers who watched a potential lethal injury to a young man and decided that it was the perfect time to blame vaccines are beneath contempt," tweeted Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist at The George Washington University Hospital. "The worst this country has to offer. Climb back under your rocks."
Let's take a deeper look at how the demented anti-vax crowd is using the death or injury of every athlete and celebrity to push their twisted, fabricated talking points across social media. Their misinformation is leading to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths around the globe. Damar Hamlin’s Tragedy, Anti-vaxxers’ Gold Opportunists used the cardiac arrest of an NFL player to promote deadly disinformation. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...-vaccine-disinformation-died-suddenly/672659/ On Monday, the Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed from cardiac arrest during an NFL game. Nearly right away—with little information about Hamlin’s condition publicly available—vaccine-disinformation purveyors hopped onto Twitter to promote the myth that athletes are dying because of the coronavirus shot. By Tuesday, according to data from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that studies disinformation and online hate, tweets containing the phrase “died suddenly” (which the group labels an “anti-vaxx trope”) had quadrupled, numbering almost 17,000—four times the daily average of about 4,000. I spoke over the phone to the CCDH’s CEO, Imran Ahmed, to talk about the entire episode—and how it compares with previous vaccine-disinformation campaigns on Twitter. Ahmed did not hold back when discussing “the sociopathic, predatory nature of these people who prey on tragedy to spread bullshit.” (As of this writing, Hamlin remains in critical condition.) Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity. Caroline Mimbs Nyce: Can you talk to me a little bit about what you saw after the Hamlin collapse—what the volume of the anti-vax disinformation looked like online? Imran Ahmed: First of all, it’s worth saying that anti-vaxxers have proven extremely opportunistic—parasites, really, who feed on the algorithmic salience of breaking news and current events to amplify their own narrative. We have seen consistently that every time a high-profile death has occurred, very quickly, anti-vaxxers have jumped on and said, Yes, that happened because of the vaccine, and here’s the information about it. Right now, they’re trying to promote the anti-vax documentary Died Suddenly. This is about gaming social-media platforms. They don’t actually care about the narrative content of the idea that a 24-year-old footballer who was vaccinated some time ago suddenly collapsed on the pitch. What they care about is the mathematical amplification that is theirs to enjoy, despite the fact they promote false information all the time, breaking the rules of the platforms. Platforms do not allow the deliberate spread of deadly disinformation. Nevertheless, these people are allowed to continue. Nyce: Talk to me about how died suddenly became an anti-vaccine trope. Ahmed: The idea that people are going to die as a result of the vaccine has always been a central charge. Anti-vaxxers only have three charges. One was that COVID’s not that bad. The second is that vaccines are bad. A third is you can’t trust doctors. There were only ever three themes that underpinned all the memes. This is a classic example of the “vaccines are bad” type. And they’ve been saying for a long time that vaccines are going to kill people. What has proven to continue to be effective messaging is that in that short space between someone dying of unclear causes and the official medical examiner or coroner deciding what was the cause of death, anti-vaxxers will immediately jump in and use that space in which there is uncertainty to say, “The vaccine did it.” Of course, it takes a couple of days for doctors or coroners to work out what exactly happened. This isn’t about other people being bad at getting information out. This is about bad actors weaponizing those moments in which science is doing its job, which is trying to gather evidence. And they are really happy to weaponize the deliberate pace of science in order to sow disinformation. Nyce: And how do we combat that kind of disinformation? Ahmed: Really simply: Don’t give them the world’s most powerful communications platform to spread this stuff. There is no way to combat it. This is an asymmetric battle, because disinformation is designed to be non-falsifiable. So how do you falsify in the absence of actual medical information in that period? How do you falsify that they died of a vaccine? Of course it’s implausible. You’re not going to spend every moment of your day trying to debunk the overwhelming tidal wave of bullshit that comes from anti-vaxxers. It’s an asymmetric battle, because they can flood the zone with lies faster than we could possibly debunk them. So this is not a debunking job. This is a [question of] why are people who systematically break the rules of platforms allowed to continue to do so? And the reason why is because it draws attention. And for social-media platforms, they are in an unholy battle right now to hold on to the ill-gotten revenue generated by the attention given to deliberate disinformation. Nyce: Obviously, right now Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and the policy changes he has made to moderation, is a hot topic. Did anything about the way that this unfolded on Twitter surprise you? Do you think it would have been different had Elon not been in charge? Ahmed: No, it wouldn’t have been different. This is not an Elon Musk question. Twitter has always been atrocious at dealing with anti-vax disinformation. And it took a long time for them to act, for example, on the Disinformation Dozen that CCDH wrote about in early 2021. Twitter is an incredibly badly run company, and it has been for a long time. It has never had sufficient moderation staff to be able to deal with things. What Twitter’s playbook used to be was to tell everyone that they’re trying their best. Elon, in one respect, is much more honest about it. He’s doing nothing, and he’s saying, Yeah, I’m doing nothing, mate. Nyce: With this particular incident, how much were the usual suspects involved? You mentioned the Dozen that you all had reported on in 2021. Ahmed: These are all familiar bullshit artists. One of them is the Twitter account for the movie Died Suddenly. Nyce: I’m not sure how many people know this: Died Suddenly is a viral documentary. And that phrase and that hashtag are considered anti-vax and have become a meme in that community? Ahmed: It’s the hashtag chosen by the producers of this movie, which alleges that people who die suddenly are dying because of the vaccine. My wife and I are hoping to have children in the next couple of years. And when you become a parent, you start to think about, What if we bring this thing into the world that is wonderful, and it dies in the first year of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? And it’s like someone coming along and preying on that anxiety, and telling you, “No, no, that’s because of the vaccine, these sudden deaths. The doctors have been lying to you—they’re in a big cabal. They’re killing your child.” It is the sociopathic, predatory nature of these people who prey on tragedy to spread bullshit, and it is so depressing that anyone would help them—let alone some of the biggest companies in the world, which are not just facilitating but helping to monetize and often knowingly enabling this kind of parasitic behavior. Nyce: You all reported that the number of “died suddenly” tweets quadrupled after the incident on Monday night. How does that compare to other similar disinformation campaigns around prominent people either having cardiac episodes or dying? Ahmed: The baseline was different when the pandemic was active, because there was a high baseline. So this is a sudden resurgence of activity. We haven’t seen this kind of resurgence recently. Their messages are taking advantage of the weakened immune system in social media and in particular on Twitter. Because Twitter really has no immune system and is completely immunocompromised. It’s now ridden with disinformation actors pushing disinformation narratives, making it an incredibly uncertain environment to get information from. Because you don’t know who’s posting what and for what reason. Tom Bartlett: The vaccine scientist spreading vaccine misinformation And the truth is that because of the way the algorithms work, at a really simple level, disinformation has the advantage on social-media platforms, because it receives engagement from people who support it and people who oppose it and people who are fact-checking it. And the problem is that these narratives then start to build trends of their own. Nyce: A lot of people were really surprised by how quickly the anti-vax stuff started cropping up after Hamlin’s collapse on Monday night. Were you surprised by the timeline at all? Ahmed: No, no. They’re really fast, because, look, they don’t have to worry about coming up with facts. They just have to come up with a lie. You can be the best cardiac surgeon in the world. You could be watching, and you would have no idea what happened. But for someone selling lies—I could make up something. “It was an invisible horse. It trampled him. Didn’t you see it? It was an invisible horse. I’m sure. I could hear it. I couldn’t see it, obviously, because it’s invisible, but I could hear it. Go back and listen to it really carefully. The crowd is very loud, but there’s definitely an invisible horse.” I mean, this sort of junk is very easy to make up. And by the way, saying he died because of a vaccine is as ludicrous as saying he died because of an invisible horse. It is profoundly ludicrous to me, because more than two-thirds of the world’s population has taken the vaccine—billions of people.
The latest tactic of the anti-vaxxers is to create images of fake Tweets falsely attributed to doctors and know personalities --- and then distribute these fake images on social media. At some point the abusive clowns creating and distributing these "cheap fakes" with the deliberate intent to harass and abuse people need to be held legally responsible. A fake tweet spurred an anti-vaccine harassment campaign against a doctor Despite the overwhelming success of the covid vaccines, an aggressive and politicized anti-vaccine community has persevered and is using new tactics to try to smear doctors. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinf...-vaccine-harassment-campaign-doctor-rcna64448 When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning, she was greeted with a flood of Twitter notifications on her phone. The Miami critical care physician had hundreds of new followers, and they, along with thousands of others on Twitter, were angry with her. In tweets, comments and direct messages across Twitter and other social platforms, strangers demanded to know why she had deleted a tweet that read: “I will never regret the vaccine. Even if it turns out I injected actual poison and have only days to live. My heart and is was in the right place. I got vaccinated out of love, while antivaxxers did everything out of hate. If I have to die because of my love for the world, then so be it. But I will never regret or apologize for it.” Solenkova hadn’t deleted the tweet. In fact, she hadn’t written it at all. It was what misinformation researchers call a “cheap fake,” a term for a piece of fake media such as an image or video that takes little effort to produce. Someone had clumsily altered one of Solenkova’s posts to portray a blind, even deadly, zealotry for Covid vaccines and a vilification of anti-vaccine activists. Over the next few days, despite Solenkova’s protestations and pleas to Twitter to stop the spread of the image, the fake tweet would go viral across the right-wing internet and serve as fodder for a popular and increasingly rabid anti-vaccination movement. The tweet would even make it to the popular podcast of Joe Rogan, who would later apologize for discussing it. Solenkova knew what was coming next — a wave of harassment. She didn’t pay much mind to the comments and messages saying she was a terrible doctor, that she shouldn’t be practicing, that she was murdering people. She ignored the hateful direct messages in her private, personal accounts. “I purposefully didn’t spend a lot of time reading them, because I just wanted to find the original tweet and get it removed,” she said. “This time I didn’t come across death threats, but I’m not looking. I’ve probably blocked a thousand accounts.” Solenkova, like many other medical professionals, had become a minor public figure during the pandemic. Before the fake tweet, Solenkova had built a following of 30,000 on Twitter by reporting her observations from working in underserved areas during the pandemic and used her account to debunk misinformation about Covid, vaccines and unproven cures. “I started tweeting because people were dying and hospitals were unprepared,” she said. “And then disinformation became rampant.” Despite the overwhelming success of the covid vaccines — which have prevented millions of severe infections and deaths — an aggressive and politicized anti-vaccine community has persevered. Online harassment has become increasingly common for doctors during the pandemic, according to Dr. Ali Neitzel, a physician researcher who studies misinformation. “The targeting of individual physicians is a well-worn tactic,” Neitzel said. “But this cheaply-done fake — trying to frame a doctor who is doing unpaid advocacy work — that’s a new low.” Neitzel said that she sees the use of fake tweets like the one that targeted Solenkova as a sign of desperation among anti-vaccination activists who have struggled to advance a false narrative about vaccines being unsafe. “And demonizing an outspoken doctor gives them the enemy they’re looking for,” she said. There were obvious tells that the tweet attributed to Solenkova was a fake, likely fabricated with what’s known as a tweet generator. The absurdity of the message notwithstanding, the font was off, and it was 53 characters over Twitter’s 280-character limit. One of the first tweets of the doctored image was posted on Sunday evening by Paul Ramsey, an Oklahoma vlogger and frequent speaker at white supremacist conferences who goes by Ramzpaul. Ramsey added to his tweet, “COVID really was a cult.” In an email sent Friday in response to an NBC News inquiry, Ramsey said he first came across the fake tweet on another website. “I respond to tweets I see on various message boards and newsgroups. If I learn that the tweet is not legitimate, or it is satire, I delete it,” he wrote. The tweet was deleted seconds later. By Wednesday, the false tweet had gone viral, shared by many popular accounts that garnered millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. Ian Miles Cheong, a rightwing Twitter commentator to whom Twitter's owner, Elon Musk, frequently replies, tweeted it, adding “She deleted the tweet. I wonder why.” Cheong has since deleted his tweet. Jenna Ellis, a right-wing political commentator and former lawyer for President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, tweeted it, with the comment, “Delusional justification.” In response to harassing messages, Solenkova did what she could to stop the pile-on and changed her Twitter account to private. But some took that not as evidence that their swarm was causing harm, but as proof that the tweet was authentic. “At first, I thought it had to be a parody account,” tweeted Canadian lawyer and YouTuber David Freiheit. “Then I went to check out her profile, and her tweets were protected, indicating it was not parody. And now I am blocked, confirming it was not parody!” Solenkova said she repeatedly reported the tweets to Twitter and asked her 30,000 followers to do the same. Replies from Twitter shared with NBC News said the company determined the tweets did not violate the company’s policies. “In order for an account to be in violation of the policy, it must portray another person or business in a misleading or deceptive manner,” the message said. Amid a takeover by Musk in November, critics have questioned the company’s ability to stem misinformation, hate and impersonation on the platform. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on Solenkova’s experience. Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, did not respond to an email requesting comment. By Wednesday, the fake tweet had made its way to the Spotify podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which aired an 11-minute segment dissecting the tweet, displaying it during the discussion. “It’s a fascinating perspective,” Rogan said to his guest, Bret Weinstein, a former biology professor at Washington’s Evergreen State College who has promoted unproven Covid cures including ivermectin. “This woman’s take on this is this perfect encapsulation of this ideological capture that you see on social media,” Rogan said. On Thursday, Rogan temporarily took down the episode, explaining on Twitter that he had been duped. “My sincere apologies to everyone, especially the person who got hoaxed,” he tweeted. The episode was later republished without the discussion of the fake tweet. Weinstein tweeted that the takedown was the only way to “protect the person who was being impersonated.” Still, videos of the segment remain online, circulated by accounts not associated with Rogan. One video on Twitter has been viewed more than 5 million times. Rogan’s publicist did not return a request for comment. Weinstein did not return a request for comment. “You spend 11 minutes butchering my name, showing my picture, and then people Google me,” Solenkova said, adding that she feared for the lasting impact the fakery and its amplification might have on her career as a traveling physician. “I’m doing my best,” she said. “I just know that I didn’t write this. But will it pop up in a complaint to a medical board? In my Google results? I’m trying to stay calm and think, ‘they made idiots of themselves and twitter lost credibility,’ but people need to know that this can happen to any of us.”