Naomi Wolf reframed herself as a tech CEO to gain vaccine-app authority

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There was something else that was new about my doppelganger in this period. As Wolf zeroed in on vaccine apps as the focal point for her dire warnings, she also adopted a new way of referring to herself and her expertise, one clearly intended to bestow authority in this particular debate. For three decades, Naomi Wolf identified herself as an author and a former political consultant. She still does. But when she started going on Carlson’s show and others of its ilk, she began prefacing her remarks about the vaccine apps with something I hadn’t heard before: “Speaking as a tech CEO” and “I’m the CEO of a tech company.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 255

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