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Analysis
Podcaster Joe Rogan shared a screenshot of a news article to his Instagram account that insinuated scientists were blaming eggs for blood clots that had actually been caused by the COVID vaccine. But the article is fake.
In a post to his more than 16.2 million followers on Wednesday, Rogan highlighted an article with the headline, “Scientists Warn Eggs Are Causing Thousands of People to ‘Suddenly’ Form Blood Clots.”
“This is either black belt level trolling, or the AI has gone sentient and it’s starting to fuck with us,” Rogan said.
Users quickly flooded the comments with anti-vaccine remarks, arguing that they had been vindicated for warning that the vaccines were dangerous.
“People are suddenly forming blood clots since the vaccine for covid-19 and now they need something to blame…” one user wrote.
Others pointed the finger at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and quipped about the “new MRNA eggs.”
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