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Collected Item: “Brainwashing”

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Brainwashing

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram post

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This is an Instagram post by we_stand_together_uk. The post shows a comic of a man and his brain full of different narratives, with the man looking fearful. Quite a few of the narratives depicted are COVID related, such as: "masks work", "trust the science", and "get boosted now." The poster themselves in the tags says #saynotothevaccine and #wewillnotcomply, making me believe that they think that everyone that has taken the vaccine has been brainwashed in some way to accept it, when they believe it is dangerous.

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pandemic skepticism, conspiracy theory, vaccine skepticism, brainwashing, narrative, media, government, HST580, ASU, United Kingdom

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

we_stand_together_uk

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2022-04-07
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