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Alex Kaplan

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Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org
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Right-wing figures are spreading “plandemic” conspiracy theories about the hantavirus

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By Alex Kaplan
| Media Matters for America Verified
In early May, a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean experienced an outbreak of hantavirus, a typically rodent-borne virus, causing at least three deaths and at least eight others to become ill or test positive for the virus.
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New reporting links skepticism of the vitamin K shot to newborn deaths. Influencers and media figures have been fearmongering about the shot for years.

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By Noah Dowe, Alyssa Tirrell, Alex Kaplan
| Media Matters for America Verified
Amid a rise in broader anti-vaccine sentiment, some influencers and media figures have cast doubt on the routine vitamin K shot given to newborn infants – and new reporting from ProPublica suggests such rhetoric may have had deadly consequences.
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Podcaster whose group was connected to a January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally suggests she was involved in creating the SAVE Act

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By Alex Kaplan, Kayla R Gogarty
| Media Matters for America Verified
Tea Party Patriots founder and podcaster Jenny Beth Martin — whose group was listed as a “coalition partner” of a rally in Washington, D.C. ahead of the January 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol — suggested during a rally later aired on her podcast that she played a role in the creation of the SAVE Act, which would curtail voting access nationwide and has been pushed by the Trump administration in its current iteration. The SAVE Act, which was introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Sen.
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