Pre-Bannon antivax content was scattershot, uncoordinated, and based on misreadings

Evidence

Before Bannon was a troubled, chaotic time for Other Naomi. She was tweeting and livestreaming with a worrying relentlessness, but her grievances were scattershot and diffuse. She shared her belief that children had lost the reflex to smile due to enforced mask-wearing, based on no evidence except her own observations of random children who might have been having rough days. She claimed to have overheard two Apple employees in a Manhattan restaurant discussing “vaccines w nanopatticles [sic] that let you travel back in time” (apparently mistaking a conversation about Apple Watch’s Time Travel feature for a secret meeting about an actual time machine). — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 231

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘vaccines with nanoparticles that let you travel back in time’ mistaking an Apple Watch demo for a conspiracy is genuinely funny and tweetable.
• XREF: Connects to the diagonalism thesis — pre-coordination, this content was diffuse grievance without a political vector, which Bannon later organized.