Big Soda tries to buy influencers, has a national meltdown

Comparing a soda ban to COVID authoritarianism might make for a catchy tweet, but it’s intellectually dishonest — and dangerously misleading. 

That’s the line that some right-wing influencers pushed recently to stir outrage over the commonsense proposal of removing sugary drinks from SNAP, the government’s food assistance program. They equated it to vaccine coercion, calling it “government overreach.” 

But according to right-leaning journalist Nick Sortor, it appears that this wasn’t a grassroots outcry at all...