Thread by @Aw_what

1) Collateral Global were incorporated in Nov. 2020 as a private ltd co., then became a charity in Jan. 2021. It was founded by James Bassam (Farha Secretaries Ltd) & Alexander Caccia. Sunetra Gupta became a Director in Dec. 2020. See @BylineTimes:

bylinetimes.com/2020/12/02/min…

2) CG's website includes a mix of articles and "studies" written by various authors, including CG members, and, of course, a donation option.

3) CG members include the Great Barrington Declaration three: Gupta, Bhattacharya & Kuldorff. Also includes former members of the disinformation groups @hartgroup_org & @PanData19

4) Ellen Townsend has been involved with various disinformation groups such as PCR Claims, @PanData19 & @hartgroup_org. Ellen also signed the Great Barrington Declaration.

https://twitter.com/Aw_what/status/1422891426283724801

5) Paul "Happiness Professor" Dolan, an author of the 2010 original "nudge" paper Mindspace, was given the backing of @SteveBakerHW in his quest to form a Wellbeing Commission.

archive.ph/Eb4JZ
instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/…

6) Jennie Bristow, who I recently wrote about, is another former member of disinformation group @hartgroup_org, a former colleague of Frank Furedi & Clare Fox & was involved in the Living Marxism Network.

https://twitter.com/Aw_what/status/1430947878554509316

7) David Livermore, signed the GBD, was on the Russian Sputnik V scientific board, & appears to have walked out on @hartgroup_org. Same as Townsend, do they feel that CG isn't a group of conspiracy theorists?

https://twitter.com/Aw_what/status/1363872486459383812

8) Andreas Sönnichsen, a member of the "lateral thinking" German Die Basis Party (other members include Reiner Fuellmich & Wolfgang Wodarg), who's university distanced themselves from due to his views.

9) Dr Alberto Giubilini is a research fellow at Oxford University and has previously written for the Spectator.

10) Collateral Global's editor and writer is @AJKayWriter

11) Jonathan Ketcham has co-authored papers with CG colleague Bhattacharya for the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute.

12) Carl Heneghan, another GBD'er, funded by WHO, apparently gave advice to Boris Johnson before the 2nd wave & also deleted his tweet history.

https://twitter.com/_johnbye/status/1402034988267212808

13) Martin Kulldorff recently co-authored an article with Bhattacharya on vaccinating young people. Kulldorff, along with fellow GBD'ers, has been advising Florida governor Ron DeSantis

independent.co.uk/news/florida-c…

14) Bhattacharya has been an "informal advisor" to DeSantis "since last September", is linked to America's Frontline Doctors, the AIER & Jeffrey Tucker's Brownstone Institute

https://twitter.com/malar0ne/status/1431273648174759939

15) Sunetra Gupta said in an interview that "actually, not only is it a good thing for young people to go out there and become immune, but that it is almost their duty."
archive.ph/N4MzE

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

16) Gupta is referred to in the #Hartleaks as Narice announces she has joined @hartgroup_org, even a members list is drawn up with Gupta listed. Gupta was also an early member of @PanData19