Thread by @shady_inf0

Instagraft! More than 100 Instagram accounts with a reach of 6M people are using it to seek to make money as a consequence of spreading misinformation about CV19 & vaccines, promoting potentially dangerous false claims, New investigation by @TBIJ
thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-0…

The Bureau's @alexandraheal & @JaspJackson tracked a group of Instagrammers who formed a new network - Health Freedom for Humanity (HFFH) which listed as its founders, board & committee members, some of the loudest voices spreading Covid-19 misinfo online. Many are making $$$$

2) Health Freedom for Humanity's co-founder Alec Zack, has 85,000 Insta followers, his Linktr .ee account points to another website for Coserva Heavy Metal Detox, claiming to cleanse your body & brain of heavy metals for $95, of which his wife also gets a cut.

Another grifter on the make is Steven Baker, an actual chiropractor from Idaho who's been selling his own magic 'Silver' spray, advocating against taking the vaccine, that it will change people's DNA & that it's lockdown that's killing people, not the virus.

Here's Steven Baker with disgraced ex-physician Andrew Wakefield talking "how to avoid the vaccine" Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register after he co-authored a 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between MMR vaccine & autism. Wakefield now a prominent antivaxxer.

Health Freedom For Humanity's Vice President is Tommy John, who claims covid doesn't exist, even after his own father was hospitalised with it.
Joseph Yi MD, who sits on the board of HFFH, believes masks don't work, covid19 tests are a scam, haling coronavirus as a 'plandemic'

Even when @TBIJ requested comment from HFFH's Vice President Tommy John, he still persisted with the idea that a virus doesn't exist, and that people are being deleted & prevented from 'DoINg tHeiR OwN REseArch'

Here's what happens when people 'Do tHeiR OwN REseArch' -

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1261785515784916993?s=20

Since @TBIJ contacted facebook, Steven Baker, Alec Zeck, Tom Cowan and Health Freedom for Humanity have been taken down off Instagram, but Health Freedom For Humanity's @Facebook page still operates.

This activity has implications here in the UK as the recent agreement by UKGOV & SM companies not to profit from covid19 misinfo, was being breached given Instagram users, despite receiving multiple flags from fact checkers, still posting after the last facebook crackdown promise

Last word to Lord Puttnam who nails it.
Facebook & other tech companies are “doing the absolute minimum they believe they can get away with" ... & ... "to put it right they have to alter their business model. If they alter their business model, they will be less profitable.”