Threat to Democracy
Facebook and COVID Denial --a report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights--examines the current wave of far-right activism, insurrectionism, and violence rooted in racism. In this aspect, the far-right protest movement against public health measures resembles the Christian Patriot uprising of the 1990s that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. In Whatcom County, seven "patriots" were arrested and convicted in federal court of making bombs to murder human rights activists. Real world consequences of this Facebook-enabled movement include attacks on hospital doctors and threats against school boards by a new generation of bigots calling themselves patriots.