this is an act of desperation by the digital ad markets. they have to innovate new types of ad to sell because more and more the only ads that actually work even a little bit are personal testimony and billboards, neither of which the digital ad markets actually sell. we are currently experiencing an economic collapse in the advertising space which is driving the ad markets to use their propaganda machines for less and less scrupulous purposes. ever wonder why there’s so much right wing bullshit in your youtube ads now? because that shit didn’t sell razors or soap or mattresses or whatever. but it CAN make people very scared and upset