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    Conspiracy Theories Are Dangerous No Matter How Many People Believe Them      
  
    
    
    Capitol Police Ramps Up Security Ahead Of Potential Anti-Vax Trucker Protests During State Of The Union      
  
    
    
    Where Things Stand: Majority Of Anti-Vax Trucker Protest Funds Were Donated By Americans      
  It’s hardly a surprise: More than half of the funds donated on at least one crowd-funding website raising money for protesters involved in the Canadian anti-vax trucker demonstrations came from U.S. donors.
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    Where Things Stand: ‘Hoser-Extremism’ And The Rob Ford –> Canadian Anti-Vax Trucker Protest Trajectory      
  TIL what a “hoser” is.
In Canadian pop-culture, it’s a term used to describe the type of personality that former president Trump tends to embody — the brand of bombastic extremism that makes up the personality of people who currently occupy the center of the Canadian populism movement: think loud, uncouth and skeptical of facts, precedent and the government in general.
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    Where Things Stand: FDA Halting Use Of Some Monoclonal Antibodies Treatments Bursts GOP’s Anti-Vax Bubble      
  But some Republicans are already using the Biden administration’s new, common sense decision to pour gasoline on their baseless federal overreach fights.
The Food and Drug Administration removed two monoclonal antibody therapies from its list of approved treatments for COVID-19 this week, at least temporarily. Citing clinical data, the FDA said in a statement that it has found two of the treatments “are highly unlikely to be active against the omicron variant, which is circulating at a very high frequency throughout the United States.” HHS sent out a letter to state officials this week, alerting them that the federal government would stop handing out the treatments made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly to states for now, according to the Washington Post which obtained a copy of the letter.
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    Radicalization Pipelines: How Targeted Ads On Social Media Drive People To Extremes      
  
    
    
    Vaccine Skepticism And A Failed Coup: How Disinformation Is Striking Back