Legitimate reporting on pandemic profiteering mutated into conspiracy narratives within months.

Evidence

A few months after that piece came out, I started to see examples of these same trends being cast in far more conspiratorial ways: maybe the tech companies had planned the whole thing. Maybe it was the World Economic Forum and its plan for the Great Reset; maybe the whole pandemic wasn’t real and the death toll numbers were an elaborate hoax. Maybe, as my doppelganger seemed to suggest, it was all a ploy to get us to accept a CCP-style social credit police state. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 481

Categorization

• XREF: This is the heart of the diagonalism thesis — the same observable trend (contactless tech push) feeding both legitimate and conspiratorial framings. Connect to the Screen New Deal detail in the prior paragraph. — connects to: Health misinformation moved from fringe to mainstream political discourse — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 53