The information warriors fighting 'robot zombie army' of coronavirus sceptics
by Archie Bland from Science | The Guardian on (#5D8Y5)
The Anti-Virus website takes on figures like Toby Young and Allison Pearson - and its creators think it has them on the run
Sometimes, Stuart Ritchie feels like he's being pursued by an army of smiley faces. The lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, is not delusional: instead, and somewhat to his surprise, he is on the frontline of a coronavirus information war.
The emojis often decorate the Twitter profiles of the self-proclaimed lockdown sceptics", a subset of social media users who remain unconvinced that coronavirus restrictions are necessary, even as the number of deaths in the UK approaches 100,000.
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