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THREAD: Ty and Charlene Bollinger are anti-vaxx entrepreneurs who promote the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy.

Our report exposes how they are using the social reach granted to them by Big Tech to launch a new anti-vaxx Super PAC ahead of the upcoming US elections.
The Bollingers run a network of accounts with 1.6 million followers.

It's an elaborate marketing funnel designed to sell books and DVDs about vaccines, cancer and Covid.

New signups get a free “Coronavirus field guide” that claims the disease is being used to push vaccines.
But the Bollingers don’t just push anti-vaxx misinformation to their followers: they promote the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory too.

They claim that Trump is fighting the deep state and a global elite involved in child trafficking and paedophilia.
Now the Bollingers are taking their political ambitions to the next level.

With support from leading anti-vaxxers including @RobertKennedyJr they have launched the United Medical Freedom Super PAC to back anti-vaxx candidates in the upcoming US elections.
Ahead of the launch of their anti-vaxx Super PAC, Charlene Bollinger reassured her anti-vaxx followers that “Trump is for medical freedom”.
The Bollingers are soliciting donations that they say will help support anti-vaxx candidates.

But their United Medical Freedom Super PAC does not yet appear to be registered with the US Federal Election Commission. fec.gov/data/search/?s…
The Bollingers are at the heart of the anti-vaxx industry.

Big Tech has allowed them to amass 1.6 million followers.

Facebook even allowed them to buy ads on its platform.

Now they’re using their reach to influence the US elections.

More in our report: counterhate.co.uk/anti-vaxx-indu…
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NEW: Big Tech is profiting from an anti-vaxx industry that has grown to 58 million followers during Covid.

Now 31% of Brits and 41% of US respondents don't plan to get a Coronavirus vaccine.

⬇️ Our latest report ⬇️ #LiesCostLives counterhate.co.uk/anti-vaxx-indu…
Our new report identifies 409 anti-vaxx social media accounts with 58 million followers.

They are gaining millions of followers a month, growing by 19% during the pandemic. counterhate.co.uk/anti-vaxx-indu…
New polling from YouGov for our anti-vaxx report shows social media use and reluctance to vaccinate are linked.

It also reveals that 31% of Brits and 41% of Americans don’t plan to get a Covid vaccine – enough to make a vaccine ineffective. counterhate.co.uk/anti-vaxx-indu…
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It's still happening: David Icke's toxic COVID-19 conspiracies were broadcast on social media this evening.

They appeared on the London Real @YouTube channel before switching to @DacastStreaming.

Posts on @Twitter, @Facebook and @Instagram ensured tens of thousands tuned in.
David Icke used his latest video to claim that:
❌ COVID-19 does not exist
❌ 5G is causing the illness
❌ Lockdown is "a global version of Nazi Germany"
This screenshot shows @YouTube handling $1,000s in donations for David Icke's latest COVID-19 conspiracy video.

It featured an interview with InfoWar's Alex Jones - who is banned from YouTube - discussing Icke's own ban from the platform.

This has to stop.
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As well as Katie Hopkins, we requested that @Twitter review George Galloway’s presence on their platform when we met them this week.

Galloway uses @Twitter to inculcate antisemitism. Here’s why @Twitter should remove him [THREAD]
Galloway uses @Twitter to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories that Israel is behind ISIS, Al Qaeda, problems facing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and opposition to Galloway’s unsuccessful 2015 general election campaign.
Galloway used @Twitter to breach the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, by labelling the creation of Israel “a racist endeavour.” In the week of Holocaust Memorial Day, it evidences Twitter's toxicity that this tweet is still up.
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