but i have heard hip-hop lyrics that reference it

“Lockdown” - Anderson Paak

IIRC, the CDC has disabled comments on many videos, but it doesn’t stop the video from being dislike bombed. Plus most news sources don’t disable comments so all of the anti-masker crap just continues on those forums as well.

Point 3 is definitely a big one - literally every video on YouTube related to COVID or the US government’s response to it has either been dislike bombed or has tons of comments calling the entire thing a hoax/encouraging people to not wear masks/telling people to refuse vaccinations.

Even the CDC’s own YT channel has this problem, and I find it amazing that so many people would go so far out of their way to find and dislike bomb a government agency’s YT channel when they’re just trying to keep people informed.

Isn’t TASS Russian state media?

NPR certainly has a pro-US tilt in its reporting, but I still think that it’s one of the least sensationalist and biased outlets in the US. Plus the podcasts and local reporting pieces are usually pretty good.