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Florida Gov. hires conspiracy theorist to handle COVID-19 research

Florida Gov. hires conspiracy theorist to handle COVID-19
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has tapped an obscure sports blogger and conspiracy theorist from Ohio for a data analytics job amid the coronavirus outbreak in the Sunshine State, a report said Tuesday.

Kyle Lamb, who also moonlights as an Uber driver, will be doing data analysis on a number of subjects, including COVID-19 research, in his new gig for the country’s third most populous state, The Miami Herald reported.

Lamb has floated a number of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus on Twitter and repeatedly praised DeSantis’ handling of the pandemic, according to the report.

The governor has repeatedly downplayed the risk of the virus and refused to issue a statewide mask mandate.

Lamb gained recognition among right wing commentators through his Twitter feed, where he once posited the claim that a resident of Ohio tested positive for the virus 15 times, each of which he said was counted by the state separately and inflated the positivity rate, the report said. He later deleted the tweet when it was proved false.

A guest on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show cited the tweet and lauded Lamb as a good coronavirus researcher, which nearly doubled his Twitter following.

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Several sports writers and reporters from Ohio told the Herald they knew Lamb as a “crackpot” and gadfly in the world of Ohio State sports journalism.

“He just seemed like another Internet weirdo. He’d been around the [Ohio State sports] ecosystem for a long time,” Jeff Svoboda, who ran a sports blog in the state told the Herald. “It just seemed like if no one before us would hire him, there was a reason. … He’s a crackpot, frankly. [But] his Twitter University graduate degree is paying dividends.”

A spokesperson for DeSantis, Fred Piccolo, downplayed Lamb’s role as an entry-level job in a statement to the newspaper.

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