Interesting. I may have a good example for your theory. There is an image going around on Telegram of Russell kissing the cheek of Yuval Noah Harari while holding a copy of Yuval's book "21 Lessons for the 21st Century". There is also a writeup that basically says that anyone who has been following Russell has been brainwashed.

I searched Tineye to see when/where the image came from, and it can't find any copies of the image on the web. Real? Fake? Who knows. If fake, it's a good one. The book was published in 2018, so I would imagine it was from that timeframe.

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