Thread by @docrussjackson

It's irresponsible to allow Martin Daubney on the clickbait #vine show to say unchallenged ‘there is no proof that children spread the virus’.

It's unacceptable that broadcasters are complicit in spreading #disinformation, when Britain has the highest COVID death rate in Europe.

We've known for a long time that children DO 'spread the virus', & it's just a blatantly misleading & dangerously irresponsible lie for mini-Farage Daubney to claim that there is no evidence that they do.

Shameful broadcasting.

#vine

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Daubney also lied about COVID child-deaths: he said 'only 10 under 18s had died & they all had underlying health conditions', but we know that six under 18s with no underlying health conditions died from Covid19 in England before the end of February 2021.

fullfact.org/health/mail-un…

Up to the end of February 2021, there were a total of 6,338 childhood admissions to hospital, among which 2,923 involved children with no underlying health conditions. Daubney's unhinged & easily disprovable lies & bullshit should not get national exposure on #vine. Unforgivable.

I'm sick of the lies, disinformation & divisive irresponsible rhetoric coming from the UK's Libertarian Right, via the likes of GB News, talkRadio, #vine & elsewhere, attacking our #NHS & puking out bullshit about 'freedom' & 'liberty' & 'brainwashing'.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1439272748208074753

Here's Daubney's lie about 'underlying health conditions' being amplified across Europe in a dodgy Dutch online magazine that devotes a lot of attention to conspiracy theories.

We're in big trouble when the Govt & the media regulator do NOTHING about COVID lies & disinformation.

Others have suggested that these kind of dangerously irresponsible lies & disinformation have contributed to radicalising the people invading vaccination centres in the UK:

https://twitter.com/kallinos/status/1429188762387501069

Expressing concern about Big Pharma, untrustworthy Govts, mass surveillance, so-called COVID passports or the efficacy of facemasks doesn't make you an ANTI-VAXXER.

However, imho, deliberately spreading COVID lies/disinformation should have consequences.

https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1423930183485169667

Daubney, amplified by the likes of Julia Hartley-Brewer & Calvin Robinson, is now at the heart of the UK’s #Covid19-skeptic and anti-lockdown movement, which forms part of a broader well-funded international web of libertarian & right-wing campaigners.

codastory.com/disinformation…

In addition to being cited by RT, Daubney has contributed to the Russia-backed media outlet Sputnik News, appearing many times on Sputnik International’s radio show & podcast Shooting From the Lip, hosted by UK talk radio presenter & former tabloid columnist Jon Gaunt since 2018.

In one episode, Daubney said: “I would like to see more people deported,” & every foreign national who commits a crime should have to leave Britain. The episode title was “Corbyn Believes That Jamaicans Get a Free Pass to Murder & Rape in the UK,” based on a quote from Daubney.

In another episode, Daubney described global warming as “the new religion.” Elsewhere, he's referred to identity politics as a “cancer of the modern world.” It's difficult not to view Daubney & Unlocked as important parts of the global radical Right coronavirus-skeptic ecosystem.

After attending the Freedom March, Daubney went on Hartley-Brewer’s TalkRadio show to discuss how little coverage the demonstration was given by the “establishment” media and to denounce the focus on extreme elements in the crowd. Julia Hartley-Brewer of course wholly concurred.

Daubney also RTd a video posted by conspiracy theory group Save Our Rights UK, & has stated that Britain has “sleepwalked into a totalitarian state”.

He's also a key player in the 'manosphere', concerned with men’s issues & masculinity, oriented around an opposition to feminism.

Daubney has consistently criticised, demonised & scapegoated feminism for a long time, often in the pages of the Telegraph, but also in numerous
@YouTube videos.

Anyway, as ever, do your own research, & draw your own conclusions.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1428033803025534981

I know it's popular to bash the @BBC, & especially @BBCNews, sometimes with good reason (see below), but the Jeremy #vine TV show is on @channel5_tv.

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