I'm not sure I can explain more than is in the article, but I feel that writing it out helps me cope with the insanity: "Med-beds" are a far-right-adjacent con

I'm not sure I can explain more than is in the article, but I feel that writing it out helps me cope with the insanity: "Med-beds" are a far-right-adjacent conspiracy theory. It posits that the rich and powerful have access to a secret medical technology that can heal any disease. Descriptions vary between Star-Trek-ish magic future tech on the one hand, vs new age woo magic crystal healing on the other. There are a variety of scams around this preying on the medically ignorant and desperate [1], one of which has even been posted on HN! [2] The president's truth social account posted a fictional AI-generated Fox News segment purporting to announce that the president himself is making this "technology" broadly available. The segment includes deepfake of the president himself, which raises some alarming (although not, at this point, surprising) questions about who posted the video and why: - Did the president himself post this or direct someone to post it? If so, does he think that it was real, despite the clips of him saying things he never said? - Or, did someone post it without the president's authorization, and if so, did they believe it was real? [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/far-right-miracle-cure-medbed.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/far-right-mir... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050557