News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Oxford's Professor Carl Heneghan has extracted the main points from the case against Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine brought by the Kansas City Attorney General, and they're damning.
Pfizer is being sued again by U.S. states over false statements about its COVID-19 vaccine. But why is BioNTech not also in the frame, asks Robert Kogon. After all, it is the true owner and creator of the mRNA jab.
BBC 'Disinformation Correspondent' Marianna Spring worries about Russian spies, trolls, bots and Brexiteers. But most of all she worries "real people" will be "emboldened" to talk about politics online.
A new investigation reveals the US military spread anti-vaccine propaganda in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic, using fake accounts to undermine China and cast doubt on the safety of Chinese vaccines.
BBC Verify should just explain things, and then let people decide for themselves, says David Frost in the Telegraph. But isn't that what the BBC is supposed to do anyway?
Elon Musk has said "freedom of speech is worth fighting for" after Australia's cyber safety regulator dropped its federal court case over X Corp's refusal to globally block footage it deemed harmful.
Prof Ian Plimer has long railed against the climate consensus. Hannes Sarv talks to the geological gadfly about misinformation, global boiling and why the only thing renewable about renewable energy is the subsidies.
Gordon Brown has either been taken in by the WHO's disinformation on its Pandemic Treaty or is an instrument of it, says Dr David Bell. The former Prime Minister's reassuring claims are demonstrably false.
Contrary to the X memes, the claim that the WHO is largely funded by private sources is not only false but wildly misleading, says Robert Kogon. In fact, it is around 90% funded by states.
Colds, flu and Covid are mainly spread through the air and not by sharing cups and getting close to one another, World Health Organisation experts have suggested in a new report.
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