Major companies can get sheep to believe and do whatever they want. The good little masked Rona paranoiacs would be the same ones lining up to smoke.
What's this? Cigarettes cause no health problems and doctors recommend them?
It must be true because a company said it was and they have a looot of money. Money equals truth. The media profited from the ads and they agreed with the cigarette companies.
The media has a lot of money. That's truth times 2. Plus, celebrities endorse cigs and they're famous after all. Even more truth. If anyone disagreed and says cigs are bad, they would not be given television time. It's because they are bad. They must be censored and called names so that they will not argue against truth.
Imagine how smart people felt agreeing with big companies and famous people(and still do). Those that believed cigs weren't healthy were BAD.

It's so fulfilling to agree with what the famous and rich tell you is true.
This parallels people that quote companies owned by people with the same ideology as authoritative sources. This leftist company banned him. This leftist company said he is hateful. This company wrote a bad article about him. Conclusion...he is therefore bad. It's the same as the cig companies/media decades ago being authoritative, in reality their consensus is meaningless. Except now it more like the Holy Roman Church says you're bad, they excommunicate you, they shun you, therefore you are bad. Except it's not exactly the Catholic Church that's in charge now.

