When The Media Says "Experts" They Mean Paid Corporate Shills (Part 23)
“What often flies under the banner of combating disinformation is, in this case, nothing but corporate public relations, trying to spin public narratives in directions favorable to the corporation’s interests. Does anyone really want to live under a regime where their social media feed is essentially curated by the government or by multinational corporate interests that stand to profit, influencing opinion on these issues”?Aaron Kheriaty, Bioethicist and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
One of key organizations Twitter and CISA consulted in their efforts to censor vaccine “misinformation”, which was operationally defined to not only include falsifiable information but also anecdotes and scientific literature about SAEs and natural immunity that may cause “hesitancy”, was an astroturfed public health non-profit NGO called the Public Good Project, who I mentioned in a previous Twitter Files post. The Public Good Project is financed through an intermediary lobbying group called Biotechnology Innovation Organization that is itself financed by the pharma industry and their operational definition of “misinformation” was even more expansive than Twitter’s operational definition and includes opinions against vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns but not Albert Bourla’s exaggerated claims about VE against infection and COVID risks to children that got him fined by a UK Medical Board. In other words, it was very apparent from the get go the “Public Good'' project were corporate stooges masquerading as “independent” “fact-checkers” ( which is actually “protected opinion” according to Meta’s deposition) and that their MO was to reinforce the class interests of Pfizer and Moderna. During their Stronger campaign, which they collaborated with Moderna on, they gave their network of 45,000 healthcare experts talking points and advice on how to respond to information and research that conflicts with big pharma’s interest. FOIed internal emails also show that Public Good had backdoor access to Twitter data and advised the “Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation” CISA task force on all matters of covid19 social media posts. Moderna also created an in-house monitoring team through their global intelligence division that is run by former FBI analyst Nikki Rutman.
This was originally posted by Jack Poulson on Lee Fang’s Substack. The original can be viewed through the webarchive.