Without hands! And on the arm. You know the “Magnet Challenge”. The goal ? Get a magnet to hold onto your arm or metal objects. This is not for cosmetic purposes, but in order to prove that anti-Covid vaccines are so filled with metallic and strange substances that they turn us into magnets ourselves. Photos and videos on this famous challenge abound on social networks, Tik Tok, Youtube and Instagram.
Some even go further, assuming that with the vaccine, we would be injected squarely into the body with a magnet, all coated in anti-ax rhetoric.
So, do we all risk being turned into Iron Man and Woman? Not really, no. This does not prevent this “Magnet Challenge” from being particularly viral. Clémence explains why, this week in OMF Oh My Fake
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Coronavirus, health crisis, social movements, this period, OMF Oh My Fake is more than ever a program that gives perspective and critical thinking just like our fact checking column “Fake Off”. And since season 2 of this program is particularly hair-raising and colorful, don’t hesitate to subscribe. You can do this directly by scanning this snapcode in the Snapchat app. And I promise, you won’t regret it.