Gregory Davis

A 39-year-old Turkish doctor performing research on the COVID-19 virus in the United States has been arrested for hiring hitmen to kill a U.S. citizen, with his Turkish employee.

If found guilty, Serhat Gümrükçü, the owner of a lab named "Enochian BioSciences" in Los Angeles, and his lab's information technology manager, Berk Eratay, 35, could face life sentences.

When Hope not Hate conducted its research in the summer of 2020, the 20 most popular videos on the platform were a mix of extreme racist propaganda and harmful disinformation, mostly originating from QAnon and anti-vaxxer groups.