On science communication:
Today Elon Musk attacked Anthony Fauci. The post got at least 600,000 likes.
Whatever this means for #TwitterMigration (should be: let's leave!),
it also means many have been radicalized against Fauci and science and gov't. While many of us have been carrying about our business, rightwing media has been creating vast hate for science. Vast.
There's only one solution: FIGHT. (more below) /1
@protecttruth "it also means many have been radicalized against Fauci and science and gov't."
Not necessarily. It could just be 600,000 bot accounts that focus on misinformation, since he re-enabled all of the bots.
@hackerfactor @protecttruth You just need one idiot with a hammer. Just ask Nancy Pelosi.
Assume that half of the likes are bots: the other half are people. Assume 3% of them have serious mental illnesses that don't allow them to differentiate propaganda from truth. Those are 9000 people willing to do "justice" against Fauci. Assume they are evenly distributed in the 50 states. That's a mob of 180 people that can make a single individual's life hell.
This is how stochastic terrorism works.
