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1) EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Working w/ @mtaibbi we report on @CCDHate documents showing the Labour Party's political front's objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter" thru "Advertising focus" meaning harass his advertisers. See internal documents provided by a whistleblower.

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2) Internal Center for Countering Digital Hate document shows their annual objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter" This is their internal monthly planner. Their goal is to also trigger regulatory action, although they are a tax-exempt nonprofit.

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3) CCDH held a private conference w/ a slew of liberal groups organizing against Musk including Biden White House, Congressman Adam Schiff's office, Biden/Harris State Department officials, Canadian MP Peter Julian & Media Matters for America

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4) Center for Countering Digital Hate gets a lot of money from Hollywood. Staff say that one of the donors is singer Selena Gomez, a client of Aleen Keshishian

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5) Read all the documents and more at @DisInfoChron. https://substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/disinformationchronicle-substack-com-p-election-exclusive-british-advisors.html More stories on the way!

Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter" England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show. substack-proxy.glitch.me

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5) Read all the documents and more at @DisInfoChron. https://substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/disinformationchronicle-substack-com-p-election-exclusive-british-advisors.html More stories on the way!

Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter" England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show. substack-proxy.glitch.me

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Stephen Colbert calls CNN "objective" in this interview with one of their anchors. The audience bursts out laughing. https://t.co/IOqPTXIIvP

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Big Tony doesn't like to be connected directly. Bada bing! https://t.co/EqpZjsDfO0

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1) WOW! Tony Fauci's deputy, David Morens, admitted in a hearing he deleted government records and conspired with EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak to restore Daszak's grant. At the hearing's end, Morens' lawyer whispered to him, "Tie your shoe." https://www.pauldthacker.com/blog/

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

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2) Morens admitted that he edited a compliance letter Daszak sent to the NIH, edited an EcoHealth Alliance press release after NIH terminated Daszak’s grant, and “put in a word” to the EcoHealth Alliance board when Daszak was worried about being fired. https://t.co/idgtQVCHbe

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3) Morens also he would delete emails. https://t.co/UWP5Vjo3GT

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4) At the end of the hearing, Morens was approached by his lawyer, white collar crime attorney Timothy Belevetz. Leaning into his client’s ear, Belevetz whispered, “Before you get up, tie your shoe.” https://t.co/m4Ib8cPocb

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5) Morens and Boston University's Gerald Keusch published a 2020 essay that advocated for “a quantam leap” in funding for the type of research conducted by Daszak and debunked the conspiracy about the virus being man-made. https://t.co/tlqikxfr1K

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6) Keusch was also a busy beaver working w/ @ScienceMagazine's Jon Cohen to place essays protecting Daszak and Fauci's gain-of-function studies. This might be why some refer to Jon as "Crooked Cohen." https://t.co/DGco6WfZqq

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7) Most of the Fauci-aligned media either downplayed, buried, or ignored the hearing's findings. A Committee report concluded that the emails raise alarming questions about whether Fauci took part in a conspiracy to hide his records regarding the origins of COVID-19.

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8) Read more at @DisInfoChron and please subscribe! (Morens looked like me at 5 getting ground by my Dad.) https://t.co/8LKIXYOrwp

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.@ScienceMagazine: "House panel takes Fauci adviser to task for allegedly evading public records laws" https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-takes-fauci-adviser-task-allegedly-evading-public-records-laws "allegedly" 🤡 https://t.co/TIVVZv1lAR

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"SICK LIES" New York Post goes after Fauci for his lies about dangerous virus research at the Wuhan institute of Virology. It's only going to get worse for these liars. (friend sent me this photo from a NY bodega.) https://t.co/tE9xqB0Ffn

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1) Whistleblower says "New Knowledge" cybersecurity firm run by Jonathan Morgan & Renee DiResta trafficked in election disinformation. Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. https://pauldthacker.com/blog/#/

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

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2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks: NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.

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3) Betsy Depuis was tasked w/ improving the Hamilton 68 dashboard, a job paid for by the Center for American Progress. @mtaibbi later exposed the dashboard spread disinformation, and the Washington Post ran multiple corrections.

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4) The Hamilton 68 upgrade involved the German Marshall Fund, Center for American Progress's Think Progress, and "disinformation journalist" Andrew Weisburd. Basically, a coalition of left of centre groups.

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5) While updating the Hamilton 68 dashboard, Depuis began tracking Russian disinformation in an Alabama Senate race, not realising New Knowledge was creating the disinformation bots. In the office, people called this the "Alabama Project."

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6) DEPUIS: "The dashboard I was building that the Center for American Progress funded was, in effect, measuring the outcome of New Knowledge’s disinformation campaign against Roy Moore, who is a reprehensible person."

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7) Depuis says that Stanford's Renee DiResta worked on the Alabama Project, but DiResta says she joined New Knowledge after the project ended.

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7) Depuis eventually reached the end of her rope. "We had this all-hands meeting where they discussed that they had successfully run a disinformation campaign, and announced that DoD was funding us to build a disinformation propagation platform."

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8) After she complained that she did not want to be involved in creating disinformation, New Knowledge shoved Depuis out the door, forcing her to sign an NDA.

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9) DEPUIS: I think they fired me because I was being insubordinate. And that I voiced disagreement about what they were doing.

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10) DEPUIS: "I just kept quiet, until now, because I didn’t want to be accused of spreading a conspiracy theory." READ THE INTERVIEW AND VIEW DOCUMENTS AT @DisInfoChron https://www.pauldthacker.com/blog/#/

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

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1) Pfizer has spread so much vax misinformation that a regulator accused them of "bringing discredit" on the entire industry--the entire industry!!! And the fact checkers keep looking the other way. https://www.pauldthacker.com/blog/#/ Let's look at the facts.

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

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2) @FullFact even tried to bolster confidence in Pfizer’s #COVID vaccine by pointing out that—while Pfizer paid an unprecedented $2.3 billion fine for healthcare fraud—everyone needs to calm the fuck down, none of Pfizer’s fraud involved a vaccine.

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3) The regulator found that Pfizer began spreading vaccine misinformation in 2020 to promote their COVID vaccine, meaning Pfizer was misleading the public about their vaccine throughout the pandemic. Even before they had completed clinical trials!

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4) The ruling came from the PMCPA which the pharma trade organization ABPI set up in 1993. Oh, and ABPI is now led by a Pfizer person. It's that bad. Pfizer got rapped by a group set up by the pharma org now run by Pfizer. It's like Pfizer is appalled by Pfizer.

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5) This is the 6th finding against Pfizer by the Pfizer-friendly watchdog. Another example was reported back in 2022 when CEO Albert Bourla spread vaccine misinformation on the BBC. Why didn't the BBC catch this, @rachelschraer?

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6) When I looked back over the pandemic, I found a host of fake fact checks, like this one, coming out to "support" Pfizer, not question it. Big Fact Check always dances to Big Pharma's tune.

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7) Here's my fave: One fact checker knocks down critic's stats on Pfizer's vaccine in favour of Pfizer 95% efficacy claim, while another questions if Pfizer ever made a 95% efficacy claim, months later. It's always fact checks in favour of Pfizer.

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8) Read more at @DisInfoChron and please subscribe! https://www.pauldthacker.com/blog/#/

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

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1) Chinese researchers who first mapped #COVID was being paid by Anthony Fauci. How do we know? Show me the documents! tinyurl.com/3ryncwxu

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2) Chinese researcher Lili Ren was a paid co-investigator on a grant awarded by Fauci's institute to Peter Daszak w/ EcoHealth Alliance. NIH officials refused to respond to multiple requests to explain how much salary they paid Ren. https://t.co/o7QP0pY8zP

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3) When this grant first made national attention in the summer of 2020, Daszak denied to Nature Magazine his group did any type of sequencing. https://t.co/sbHfLWDuNt

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4) NIH also paid Ren's expenses to visit her collaborator Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina. Baric helped to ghostwrite an essay that called the possibility of a lab accident a "conspiracy theory." https://t.co/4Zxos45Al9

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5) HHS told a House committee that Ren's sequence "was nearly identical to the sequence" to another later published by NIH's GenBank. https://t.co/fNhqZyClGw

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6) See story and all documents at @DisInfoChron https://t.co/RXDaiGJdSW

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1) Twitter Files #FauciPharmaFiles Last December, @elonmusk sent out his viral tweet about Fauci. Fauci went on Fox News and said he had "no clue what [Elon] was talking about."

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2) "A lot of people are spouting out a lot of things about me and Twitter," Fauci told @FoxNews. "I've never had a Twitter account. I don't intend on having a Twitter account, and I've had nothing to do with Twitter. So I don't know what they're talking about when they say that."

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3) Fauci made similar claims, during multiple exchanges, in a 7-hour deposition, where he denied using Twitter or even knowing how to access a tweet.

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4) But in an internal Twitter report in March 2021, the company revealed "Dr. Anthony Fauci did an account takeover for @WHOCOVIDResponse." This runs contrary to Fauci's public statements and sworn deposition given on Nov 23, 2022.

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5) According to this tweet, Fauci took over the White House COVID-19 Response account again, in April 2021.

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6) Fauci was beloved by Twitter 1.0 Elon Musk tweeted last December that former employees had an internal Slack channel unironically called "Fauci Fan Club." (pssst, don't disagree w/ Fauci)

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7) Attorney Angela Sherrer, who left when Musk sought to buy Twitter, praised Fauci as "the leading trusted voice about the COVID-19 response in the United States."

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8) Angela Sherrer was no small fry at Twitter. According to a deposition by FBI agent Elvis Chan, Sherrer was one of the attorneys he interfaced with on "disinformation" at Twitter.

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9) Twitter didn't just rely on the voices of prominent physicians like Fauci. Oddly enough, they also worked with Big Pharma companies and pharmacy chains to shape vaccine marketing campaigns.

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10) In December 2020, Twitter announced they would begin removing and labelling tweets that contained vaccine "misinformation" especially concerning COVID-19 vaccines.

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11) During that same time frame, Twitter began working with Johnson and Johnson on a COVID-19 vaccine "marketing strategy" and with CVS pharmacy to promote approved narratives.

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12) By the summer of 2021, Johnson and Johnson began a full court press to market a ton of their products on Twitter, including a controversial antidepressant.

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13) Much thanks to @TexasLindsay_ who helped collect and organise #TwitterFiles. We read and read, until our eyes bled. More to come!

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14) Harvard's @MartinKulldorff who is suing the federal government for colluding w/ social media companies on censorship "Twitter should be a place for people to exchange ideas without censoring." https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files-twitter-loves-dr-fauci

TWITTER FILES: Twitter loves Dr Fauci and Big Pharma "marketing strategy" Documents uncovered at Twitter point to dissembling by Fauci under oath, and a social media company that helped market COVID vaccines while labeling and removing tweets for vaccine “misinformation” disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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16) I had to make a slight change to article, noting that J&J was a Twitter *client* while Twitter was simultaneously calling balls & strikes on vaccine "misinformation." A subtle yet important distinction. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files-twitter-loves-dr-fauci

TWITTER FILES: Twitter loves Dr Fauci and Big Pharma "marketing strategy" Documents uncovered at Twitter point to dissembling by Fauci under oath, and a social media company that helped market COVID vaccines while labeling and removing tweets for vaccine “misinformation” disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of The BMJ’s Pfizer Investigation https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/new-emails-biden-white-house-behind Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines /1

NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of The BMJ’s Pfizer Investigation Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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Neither of the two White Officials on the email have any background in science or medicine. @RFlaherty46 is a Biden campaign official, now White House director of digital strategy. @ASlavitt is a businessman who now runs a podcast. /2

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In the March 2021 email, Facebook promised the White House, "[W]e have been focused on reducing virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation ... This is often-true content….” /3

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9 months later, @bmj_latest my investigation that found data integrity problems in Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trial, based on internal documents provided by whistleblower @IamBrookJackson https://www.bmj.com/CONTENT/375/BMJ.N2635 /4

Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight. Paul D Thacker reports In autumn 2020 Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, Albert Bourla, released an open letter to the billions of people around the world who were investing their hopes in a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine to end the pandemic. “As I’ve said before, we are operating at the speed of science,” Bourla wrote, explaining to the public when they could expect a Pfizer vaccine to be authorised in the United States.1 But, for researchers who were testing Pfizer’s vaccine at several sites in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson (video 1), emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. Video 1 Whistleblower Brook Jackson tells The BMJ about her experience working on the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial On its website Ventavia calls itself the largest privately owned clinical research company in Texas and lists many awards it has won for its contract work.2 But Jackson has told The BMJ that, during the two weeks she was employed at Ventavia in September 2020, … bmj.com

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After Australia's regulatory agency began asking Pfizer questions, a Facebook "fact checker" found the investigation "lacked context" although they found no errors, ie, it was "true content." /5

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Unheard wrote BMJ fights back against Facebook fact-checkers: The medical journal was censored for 'misinformation' by the tech giant https://unherd.com/thepost/bmj-fights-back-against-facebook-fact-checkers/ /6

BMJ fights back against Facebook fact-checkers When the BMJ published an extraordinary article documenting the censorship of one of its articles by Facebook, it lifted the curtain on a clandestine practice performed thousands of times a day. According to the medical journal, a peer-reviewed piece documenting an investigation into clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia, a contracted company which assisted [...]Read More... unherd.com

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The Facebook "fact checker" told @mtaibbi “missing context” was a term invented by Facebook https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-british-medical-journal-story I think we now know it was invented by Facebook due to White House pressure. /7

The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking" The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker's British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact racket.news

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What gives the Biden administration the right to attack news articles that have no errors, just so they can push their policies? How does this NOT violate the First Amendment? How is this NOT an attack on a free press? /8

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.@JeninYounesEsq “The government can’t get around the First Amendment by coercing, pressuring, or cajoling private companies to censor Americans for expressing views of which the government disapproves.” /9

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Does anybody know that @ASlavitt previously supported Governor Cuomo's disastrous nursing policies? @propublica on Cumo's nursing policies, apparently led by Slavitt, which increased deaths https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it /10

“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It. A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease. propublica.org

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What will happen to hold these White House officials to account and protect our rights under the Constitution? Why are Democrats ignoring this? Would it be okay if a Republican White House acted this way? https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/new-emails-biden-white-house-behind /END

NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of The BMJ’s Pfizer Investigation Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. #FOIA /1 https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is In

National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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"The agency's behavior here indicates to me that it is trying hard to prevent these records from being made available for public scrutiny,” @JamesCTobias tells me. /2

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The NIH sent Tobias a set of 24 emails--first citing #FOIA exemption 6. When Tobias sued, the NIH sent the exact same email, exact same redactions, this time citing exemption 4 & 5. Compare side to side https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is /3

National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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These #FOIA redactions concern emails between Anthony Fauci and Kristian Andersen, who once thought the #COVID19 virus was engineered. After discussion with Fauci, Andersen did a 180, calling suggestions of engineering “fringe” and “crackpot” theories. /4

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Some months later, Fauci's NIH Institute awarded Andersen $8.9 million to set up a new centre. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is /5

National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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The NIH also redacted an email from Science Magazine's @sciencecohen citing exemptions 4 (trade secrets) & 5 (deliberative). QUESTIONS: How is Cohen's email from whistleblower a trade secret? How is Cohen part of the NIH's "deliberative process"? https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is /6

National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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Cohen seems uninterested in the NIH's secretive process. /7

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Last week, @RandPaul sent a letter to the NIH Acting Director asking him to explain their #FOIA redaction process. https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/SRPLettertoNIH.pdf In February, The U.S. Government's Chief Records asked NIH to investigate allegations that agency personnel are shredding documents /8

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According to a report by @EMPOWR_us the NIH has been allowing senior NIH officials, including Francis Collins to help redact #FOIA requests before records are made public. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is cc: @davelevinthal & @gregorykorte /9

National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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.@JamesCTobias continues to litigate w/ the NIH to have the #FOIA redactions removed and to see what is being hidden https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-institutes-of-health-is /END

National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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Weeks after the Justice Department removes IRS agents investigating Hunter Biden for felony tax evasion, he gets hit .... with a misdemeanor? https://t.co/m7osOOMmqU

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A "misdemeanor", huh? Only a misdemeanor?

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1. WSJ: With US funding, Ben Hu with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was studying how coronaviruses infect humans and became ill in November 2019 with symptoms that American officials said were consistent with either Covid-19 or a seasonal illness. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-funded-scientist-among-three-chinese-researchers-who-fell-ill-amid-early-covid-19-outbreak-3f919567

U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak Identification of three who worked at Wuhan Institute of Virology fuels suspicion for proponents of lab-leak theory wsj.com

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1. WSJ: With US funding, Ben Hu with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was studying how coronaviruses infect humans and became ill in November 2019 with symptoms that American officials said were consistent with either Covid-19 or a seasonal illness. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-funded-scientist-among-three-chinese-researchers-who-fell-ill-amid-early-covid-19-outbreak-3f919567

U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak Identification of three who worked at Wuhan Institute of Virology fuels suspicion for proponents of lab-leak theory wsj.com

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2. @WhiteCoatWaste got the NIAID grant with Ben Hu's name on it. This is the NIH institute that Tony Fauci ran. Ya' know, the guy who said he didn't fund this research? Document shows Ben Hu is a subcontractor to Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance. Hu also reports a USAID grant.

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3. The Journal notes that they reported back in 2021 that these three WIV researchers had fallen sick. Those names remained classified until now: Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. So this has been known in classified documents ... for years!

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4. Ben Hu works under Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Gain of function = "modifying coronaviruses so they can bind to human cells" meaning infect them.

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5. The United States poured over $1 million into research at the WIV for researchers working under Shi Zhengli, who was a contractor to Peter Daszak EcoHealth Alliance. FYI: It's ridiculous that people keep goading China to become transparent. Open the books at NIH & USAID!

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6. The media has gaslighted us for years about WIV. Here's NY Times @carlzimmer praising Shi Zhengli: "her accomplishments and foresight are exactly what we need if we want to stop more coronaviruses...." Zimmer went on to write years of misleading NYT articles on virus research

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7. Here's another example of media gaslighting. Buzzfeed's @paldhous smeared @WhiteCoatWaste last year as "right wing." Does this term even mean anything anymore? Again #scicom writers write, they don't report. W/o @WhiteCoatWaste we wouldn't have these documents.

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8. As for Ben Hu's USAID money.... as I reported last year, USAID officials illegally redirected some virus grant money to a new thing called The Global Virome Project that is headed up by a former USAID official, Peter Daszak of EcoHealth, and academics at UC Davis.

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9. CBS News reported this March that much of that USAID virus money was likely contract fraud. I have confirmed that the Inspector General of USAID has a criminal investigation into this matter.

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10. You can read the WSJ piece here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-funded-scientist-among-three-chinese-researchers-who-fell-ill-amid-early-covid-19-outbreak-3f919567 FINAL: NIH didn't respond to WSJ for comments, nor did Peter Daszak. Both NIH and Daszak only respond to friendly #scicomm writers.

U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak Identification of three who worked at Wuhan Institute of Virology fuels suspicion for proponents of lab-leak theory wsj.com

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1. TWITTER FILES: Internal documents from @Twitter find Brown University's @cward1e provides research that helps censor.

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2. After years of working with disinformation researchers, reporters ignore that these "academics" aid in censoring. How do we know these campus employees censor? They sometimes admit it.

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3. Before the 2020 election, Stanford's Alex Stamos said at the Commonwealth Fund, "Our goal is to operationalise our work." Seriously, he said this out loud.

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4. Like University of Washington professor Kate Starbird, Stamos serves on the advisory committee of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA--a DHS agency

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5. In fact, Stanford's Stamos formed the Krebs Stamos Group with the former head of CISA, Chris Krebs. I'm not joking. It's right there on the website.

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5. The Chair of CISA's advisory committee is Tom Fanning, the CEO of Southern Company. @SenWhitehouse called out Southern Company for funding climate change disinformation. So why is he ignoring this today?

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6. A central figure in Big Disinformation is researcher Claire Wardle. With Google money in 2015, Wardle formed First Draft which claimed to be “the world’s foremost non-profit organisation focused on research and practice to tackle misinformation and disinformation.”

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7. Guess who came calling? I tripped over this document marked “for official use only” that finds Wardle had also been chosen to brief CISA’s advisory committee. CISA says they will get back to explain how often Wardle briefed them.

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8. Wardle was also involved in this Ted event on vaccines. The invite to Twitter was sent by Alexios Mantzarlis. A former fact checker, Mantzarlis has since joined Google where he focuses on misinformation.

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9. “This is too important a topic to not share lessons,” Mantzarlis emailed, stating that goals were to create a list of relevant information on vaccines that could be converted into advice for social media platforms. QUESTION: What is Big Disinformation's obsession w/ vaccines?

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10. But when a Twitter official asked for more information, Wardle responded, “Sorry you weren’t able to attend the event on the 30th. It ended up being a really great conversation, with real emphasis on quality information around vaccines.”

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11. Shortly after Trump lost in 2020, Pfizer released initial, preliminary findings for their COVID vaccine. This was November 9, 2020.

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12. Days later, Wardle rushes out a report on vaccine misinformation. She sends Twitter a looky-look the day before she releases the report.

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13. “Hello my lovely friends,” Wardle emailed. “I had hoped this week would be full of relaxing massages and cupcakes. Instead it’s more election nonsense and a Pfizer announcement that forced us to push up our planned release of new research on online vaccine narratives.”

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14. “Hello my lovely friends,” Wardle emailed. “I had hoped this week would be full of relaxing massages and cupcakes. Instead it’s more election nonsense and a Pfizer announcement that forced us to push up our planned release of new research on online vaccine narratives.”

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15. QUESTION: How often do academics put out white papers like this to promote a corporate product? Does this seem scholarly? But wait, the report on "misinformation" contains misinformation, of course.

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16. Wardle claimed in her report that vaccine mandates are “one of the prominent anti-vaccination narratives”—a narrative which, oddly enough, proved to be accurate when US companies as well as state and federal agencies began mandating COVID vaccines.

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17. Did Wardle's First Draft correct their report. Nope. They just lurched forward in support of vaccine mandates, by publishing blog posts with headlines that described discussions around mandated vaccinations as “disinformation” as well.

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18. Since Wardle released her report, one authors joined the global PR firm M&C Saatchi as an analyst. Surprise! M&C Saatchi has a contract w/ the Australian government to censor its citizens.

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19. M&C Saatchi's contract came out in an Australian Senate hearing weeks back.

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20. Meanwhile, one of Wardle's researchers joined the British government in 2021 as a “counter-disinformation product lead.” Have you been reading the British press? Surprise! More censorship.

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21. BTW, as people investigate these campus employees for censorship, guess who's stepping in to stop FOIA disclosure of documents? Surprise! @lhfang found it's CISA.

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22. Read more here and please subscribe https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files-brown-universitys-claire

TWITTER FILES: Brown University's Claire Wardle Aids Censorship Researchers on "disinformation" have little in common with academic scholars teaching Proust or studying astrophysics. disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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1. Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz #TwitterFiles Twitter engineer walking me through their reporting system, "Wow! She's a heavy user."

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2. Shortly after @elonmusk bought Twitter, @TaylorLorenz got apoplectic, writing that Twitter was "opening the gates of hell" by letting banned accounts back. (Take a wild guess what Taylor did the month prior....)

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3. The month prior, Taylor Lorenz got this tiny account banned. Surprise! The account detailed Lorenz as a Manhattan rich girl, who attended Swiss boarding school, and whose uncle owns Internet Archive, thus erasing her past.

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4. But did @fearthefloof violate Twitter's rules? Nope. No ban evasion, abuse, harassment toward Taylor Lorenz, platform manipulation, or the sharing of personal information. “The account was generally healthy and mostly conversational or commentary in nature.”

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5. Nonetheless, Twitter suspended the account because it "violates the Twitter Media Policy." The account then deactivated.

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6. A month prior to that, Lorenz went after @DrJBhattacharya for tweeting an email by her friend and itinerant blogger @WalkerBragman. Bhattacharya tweeted a harassing email Bragman sent him and it had Bragman's contact info.

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7. Bragman played this all up on Twitter of course to call attention to himself, retweeting Bhattcharya's tweet, before people made fun of him for "doxing himself." Manhattan rich kids playing at journalist are easily bruised, it seems.

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8. Bragman's game is to constantly accuse people of being "Koch funded." FYI: Soros funded me to give the plenary talk at a 2019 BMJ conference on investigative journalism, but that does not make me a "Soros funded" journalist.

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9. Several of Lorenz's past reporting targets tell me she seems to work in concert with her sources. After Lorenz doxed @libsoftiktok in the Post, Alejandra Caraballo sent Twitter a "private letter" to remove Libs of TikTok. Lorenz quoted Caraballo in the Post that next month.

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10. The letter was sent by Caraballo and several groups including the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a favored source in Lorenz essays on banning.

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11. I asked Caraballo what came of the meeting w/ Twitter and to see the letter they sent. But got no response. I also don't know if Libs of TikTok was successful in getting Caraballo suspended for harassment.

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12. It's hard to understand Lorenz's concerns about doxxing when she has done this so many times herself. Here's one allegation in a defamation lawsuit by @littlemissjacob against Lorenz that is still working it's way through the courts.

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13. Lorenz had more than special reporting access to get accounts banned. When Tucker Carlson did a piece ridiculing her, Twitter put out an alert-"We need to be careful with her." I couldn't evidence that Twitter provided this support to other reporters. I never got it.

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14. Taylor also provided special support to a source in stories she wrote for the Atlantic, NY Times, and recently for the Post. When Jackson Weimer's account was suspended, Lorenz put this in front of Twitter.

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15. Lorenz has incredibly unorthodox (is that the right word?) reporting tactics. Here's an affidavit signed by someone she quoted in the article about @littlemissjacob FYI: this person was a minor.

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16. Here's an affidavit signed by a Lorenz source for a NY Times story about Arya Toufanian

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17. Toufanian told me he sued Lorenz over the article, and she then began sending messages to gin up a DOJ investigation against him. This email Lorenz is sending around is for an Assistant US Attorney in NY.

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18. Toufanian later received a subpoena from the Southern District that reads like a rip and read of Lorenz's article. The investigation dragged on for 3 years. He recently received this email to pick up his laptop that was confiscated. "I was never charged."

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19. Neither Lorenz nor Cameron Barr with the Post responded to questions. Thanks so much to @TexasLindsay_ for helping to collect/organize these #TwitterFiles.

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20. Read more at @DisInfoChron including source documents beyond #TwitterFiles. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files-twitter-provided-privileged

TWITTER FILES: Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz Twitter engineer assisting me laughed, “Wow! She’s a heavy user.” disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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1) Twitter Files #FauciPharmaFiles Last December, @elonmusk sent out his viral tweet about Fauci. Fauci went on Fox News and said he had "no clue what [Elon] was talking about."

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2) "A lot of people are spouting out a lot of things about me and Twitter," Fauci told @FoxNews. "I've never had a Twitter account. I don't intend on having a Twitter account, and I've had nothing to do with Twitter. So I don't know what they're talking about when they say that."

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3) Fauci made similar claims, during multiple exchanges, in a 7-hour deposition, where he denied using Twitter or even knowing how to access a tweet.

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4) But in an internal Twitter report in March 2021, the company revealed "Dr. Anthony Fauci did an account takeover for @WHOCOVIDResponse." This runs contrary to Fauci's public statements and sworn deposition given on Nov 23, 2022.

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5) According to this tweet, Fauci took over the White House COVID-19 Response account again, in April 2021.

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6) Fauci was beloved by Twitter 1.0 Elon Musk tweeted last December that former employees had an internal Slack channel unironically called "Fauci Fan Club." (pssst, don't disagree w/ Fauci)

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7) Attorney Angela Sherrer, who left when Musk sought to buy Twitter, praised Fauci as "the leading trusted voice about the COVID-19 response in the United States."

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8) Angela Sherrer was no small fry at Twitter. According to a deposition by FBI agent Elvis Chan, Sherrer was one of the attorneys he interfaced with on "disinformation" at Twitter.

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9) Twitter didn't just rely on the voices of prominent physicians like Fauci. Oddly enough, they also worked with Big Pharma companies and pharmacy chains to shape vaccine marketing campaigns.

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10) In December 2020, Twitter announced they would begin removing and labelling tweets that contained vaccine "misinformation" especially concerning COVID-19 vaccines.

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11) During that same time frame, Twitter began working with Johnson and Johnson on a COVID-19 vaccine "marketing strategy" and with CVS pharmacy to promote approved narratives.

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12) By the summer of 2021, Johnson and Johnson began a full court press to market a ton of their products on Twitter, including a controversial antidepressant.

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13) Much thanks to @TexasLindsay_ who helped collect and organise #TwitterFiles. We read and read, until our eyes bled. More to come!

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14) Harvard's @MartinKulldorff who is suing the federal government for colluding w/ social media companies on censorship "Twitter should be a place for people to exchange ideas without censoring." https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files-twitter-loves-dr-fauci

TWITTER FILES: Twitter loves Dr Fauci and Big Pharma "marketing strategy" Documents uncovered at Twitter point to dissembling by Fauci under oath, and a social media company that helped market COVID vaccines while labeling and removing tweets for vaccine “misinformation” disinformationchronicle.substack.com

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1. Cochrane Shoots Back at Media Influencer Zeynep Tufekci's Claim of a "Correction" "There is no correction to the review," an executive at Cochrane told me. (Seriously doubt this will harm her chances at another Ted Talk, though.)

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2. Cochrane Author John Conly at U of Calgary: "I cannot comment on what Tufekci is meaning or the veracity of her tweets about a correction." In fact, just look at the review and you find no correction.

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3. Cochrane Author John Conly on science: "Contributors should be encouraged to submit their comments via the Cochrane Library." Tufekci took a different route: Twitter and essays. And about those Tufekci tweets and essays....

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4. What may surprise readers is that a month before she started her mask campaign in March 2020, Zeynep Tufekci tweeted a Feb 2020 essay to followers advising that mask weren't that important. Stop giggling. I'm not joking. Here's the tweets to her essay.

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5. Tufekci has zero expertise in epidemiology, but she has a knack for cultivating editors looking for social media influencers to market clickbait essays to the Ted Talk & NPR tote bag crowd. Just look through her record. 1 study on masks

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6. The Great Mask-Science Flip Flop of 2020 Tufekci was not the only media ordained COVID expert to have a convert to mask cheerleaders. Anthony Fauci did the same in an email to the former head of HHS. Fauci "I do not recommend you wear a mask."

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7. Tweeting and Ted Talks are easy, uncovering actual evidence is a tad more difficult. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Theresa Tam, said much the same in a briefing to reporters: "Tam on why Canadians don't need to wear masks."

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8. BBC's medial correspondent reported that "political lobbying" changed the WHO policy. Surprise! Zeynep tweeted that she influenced WHO, as well.

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9. The greatest scientific threat to social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci is .... social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci. ZEYNEP V. ZEYNEP

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10. More at @DisInfoChron "What caused the great mask-science flip flop of 2020?" https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/cochrane-shoots-back-at-media-influencer PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!

Cochrane Shoots Back at Media Influencer Zeynep Tufekci’s Claims of a “Correction” And what caused the great mask-science flip flop of 2020? disinformationchronicle.substack.com