Chat logs obtained by Logically can reveal that HART, a UK group of lockdown-skeptic activists and health professionals, has coordinated efforts to spread misinformation and lobby MPs, aiming to “wrestle control back from SAGE.” logically.ai/articles/hart-…
The group launders “polished” versions of pandemic conspiracy narratives to MPs, journalists and the public, relying on misrepresentations of official statistics or science, while concealing the origins and coordination of these narratives to make them appear organic.
HART members have leading roles at supposedly independent activist and political groups known for spreading COVID misinformation, such as the UK Medical Freedom Alliance, UsForThem, lockdownsceptics, and Liberal Spring.
HART has a clearly defined structure and roles for its members. They have been running an organized political influence campaign, with spreadsheets of MPs and their voting records on lockdowns shared in the chats.
To prioritize optics, some members have non-public facing roles. These include the homeopath Anna Rayner, who claims to be able to cure autism, former Pfizer scientist Mike Yeadon, activist and Keir Starmer backer Narice Bernard, and Baron Benard de Haldevang.
The group has had contact with members of the COVID Recovery Group (CRG), a group of lockdown-skeptic Conservative MPs. Messages also show communications between de Haldevang and Ed Barker, who runs communications for the CRG.
In the chat records, Logically found several baseless and misleading claims. We debunked a false statement that the “mRNA vaccines are not vaccines” made by Anna De Buisseret, a self-proclaimed lawyer who is not licensed to practice. logically.ai/factchecks/lib…
Members regularly questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines and firmly opposed vaccinating children. Logically fact-checked a common misbelief by the HART members that “researchers rushed COVID-19 vaccine trials for children” logically.ai/factchecks/lib…
They rejected the success of lockdowns. One member went as far as to say that “lockdowns are twice as bad as they are good.” We debunked this statement to show that lockdowns saved more than 3.2 million lives in Europe. logically.ai/factchecks/lib…
We also fact checked the myth that COVID-19 vaccines produce magnetic reactions in vaccinated people.
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