Covid misinformation figures directly shaped anti-mandate legislation across Republican states.

Evidence

Early on, it was clear that Wolf’s emergence as a relentless source of Covid-related misinformation was yielding real-world results. Through her website, DailyClout, as well as new alliances with an array of Republican state lawmakers, Wolf claimed partial credit for successfully pushing legislation barring mask mandates and vaccine passports in dozens of Republican states. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 97

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the causal chain Klein’s method depends on: individual influencers translating online content into legislative outcomes. — connects to: Health misinformation moved from fringe to mainstream political discourse — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 53