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Ethan Joseph Lindenberger
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TIME next generation leader / speaker / anti-antivaxxer / Communication consultant / email me at ethan@aceofswords.org
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Thanks to for their great annual summit here in Riverside. Learned a lot from talking w/ practitioners & researchers; had the honor of doing a panel session w/ on law, policy, & antivax activism; & I finally got to meet & in person!
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(15) Overall, this was an amazing opportunity, and I was so blessed to speak about equity, health, media, and the value of education. If you want to connect, hear more, or would like to hire me as a communications consultant, please reach out at
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(14) If you have time, please watch this video from Bo Burnham in his “make happy” special, where he talks about the exploitative nature of social media, and how important it is to live a life without performance…
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(13) Bottom line, equity in health, education, labor, and promoting kindness that is not transaction or capital driven, we can create a society where distractions do not dominate discourse…
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(12) Also, by promoting the value of critical thinking and better education, we can inoculate people against disinformation online. By promoting media like books and print media, limiting social media use, encouraging media scrutiny, we can teach people how to THINK better…
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(11) I have three conclusions to address this problem. Starting with cultural change to hegemonic power. By promoting equity in spaces that propel hegemony (education, labor, media, etc) we can promote better more equitable values…
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(10) We can further understand why this happens by looking at Postman and McLuhan, who show us that media which promotes entertainment and passivity always end up promoting less valuable and educational content. Social media, through algorithms, is designed to keep you online…
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(9) Ann Kathrin wrote an amazing article that outlines how the right has attacked the value of education for decades by attacking social/gender sciences, and it’s this anti-educational tactic that has expanded to ALL science, including immunization sciences and efforts…
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(8) Both the Anti-vaxx and Alt-right dominate social media because they manipulate the algorithm, and they adopt personas that captures the hegemonic, masculine, conservative, anti authority identities that otherwise would fracture the far right to various conflicting beliefs…
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(7) This is why we see the alt-right pipeline and anti-vaxx community adopt conservative, misogynistic values, and algorithms actively promote that radicalization to keep people engaged online. Characters like Andrew Tate, Alex Jones, key into this hegemony and push lies…
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(6) Social media takes this abstract social, economic, and gender competition to align with Hegemonic values/appearances, and turns it into a QUANTITATIVE, clear, and hyper competitive digital platform. This is why women suffer bodily image issues, and men become radicalized…
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(5) RW Connell also expanded on this idea with her concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ where the hegemonic model of power in the west is hegemony in the form of white, cisgender, masculine men that take on traditional masculine roles, identities, behaviors, etc…
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(4) Looking at ‘Cultural Hegemony’ we see why this happens. Antonio Gramsci claimed our social/economic norms are pushed by the ruling class to make a ‘status quo’ that benefits the ruling class. We often are subconsciously preform in an effort to align with this hegemony…
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(3) Looking at the Hofstede insight scale, we can see USA has a high individualism score and high indulgence score. There is a contradictory and hypocritical social performance that happens often in the USA, with high drug rates X war on drugs, or anti gay preachers being gay…
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(2) Disinformation on social media is not a mistake. Social media takes advantage of economic, ethical, and social competition and turns it into a hyper competitive fight for attention and validation. Algorithms promote content that is high in engagement, not necessarily true…
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(1) Today I had the opportunity to address the California Immunization coalition summit. Here’s what I spoke about…
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Says in the 2023 summit of : We should educate the young, since if they know that social media can be tricky, they're at least somewhat inoculated against misinformation. We won't out-post the anti-vaxxers. But we can help.
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Hey so, we opened an art store in Cleveland…so like, that’s cool
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How lucky were we & our audience to have moderating our post-screening panel with #DrDebraBogen #DrTerenceDermody & #DrPeterSalk. Feedback was great, Bill!
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Today at the National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit in Atlanta, speaks from a young adult's perspective on the impact of social media on vaccine dis/misinformation. #NAIIS #nationalimmunizationsummit #DontWaitVaccinate
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: ‘dis/ misinformation doesn’t just lead to lower vaccination rates, it leads to deaths’
Terrific presentation. Thank you!
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This is #EthanLindenbergers world. We're all just livin' in it. #DrPeterSalk yes that Salk #VaccinesSaveLives
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Power panel Wednesday's #Pittsburgh premier of #Virulent. A thousand thank-you's #DrDebraBogen #DrPeterSalk #DrTerenceDermody
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on how teens and young adults can address vaccine misinformation in their own families and advocate for their own health. #NJICC
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Hello #dnd and Naruto fans alike. I humbly present, the Oculus Rogue!
Inspired by the Uchiha's sharingan, an Oculus sees beyond sight and intuits the faults in their foes with just a glance. They peer into your mind, take control, and see each move you make before you make it.
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Everyone please check out this users art, they tweeted this extremely kind message to me and I was blown away at their work when I looked at their profile!
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@j_lindenberger i just watched a documentary with you in it and i just wanna drop here that you're my personal hero. thank you for speaking up against misinformation, fear mongering and fraud.
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It’s an unfortunate truth that mRNA vaccines are safe and effective, yet so many people are concerned about their DNA being “altered” and the holistic-hesitant-community struggles to trust this vaccine. It’s more important to get vaccinated now more than ever.
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My ash-lord and pitviper tattoo from today!
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"My mom was misinformed and misled by sources that convinced her that if she was a loving parent, she wouldn't vaccinate."
Watch Ethan Lindenberger's full talk here: t.ted.com/WLFLcB0
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Check out this amazing story and video by Elizabeth Ruiz for channel 5 news in Cleveland that covered my advocacy and the importance of vaccines! 👇👇👇
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Hope you enjoyed the doc!
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Even worse than I feared. The loathsome fraud Wakefield has popped up. twitter.com/NickyAACampbel…
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Thanks Steve! Appreciate the support man
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@j_lindenberger
You were excellent on the C4 documentary The Anti-Vax Conspiracy.
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MASKED UP GUEST SPOTLIGHT: and
Tune in live today at 5 PM PST to hear from these two incredible advocates and learn about the work they are doing in their communities to build trust in public health!
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