The Hasidic doctor behind an unsubstantiated treatment for coronavirus espoused anti-vaccine and conspiracist views in a video circulating on WhatsApp among Haredi, or Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Yitzhak, the rabbi who interviewed Zelenko, has made a number of unsubstantiated claims and predictions over the course of his career, including one about an impending global conflict in 2014 that was supposed to wipe out non-Jews.
Zelenko’s conspiracy theory about vaccines is just one spreading
among a population especially prone to disinformation after last week’s
Capitol siege. In a Haredi WhatsApp channel on Monday, users traded tips
about switching messaging applications and wrapping phones in aluminum
foil to avoid shutdowns and surveillance, and selling
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