1) Disney's CEO @RobertIger is a Biden campaign donor who is running a squeeze play on @elonmusk w/ Democratic attack dogs Media Matters & Center for Countering Digital Hate tinyurl.com/yckh8czb
2) If you think @Disney's Bob Iger is above political reproach, take a look at his bona fides.
He donated $250K to Biden's campaign and began angling for an administration job even before Biden had been sworn into office.
3) This last summer, Iger swore to stay out of America's "culture wars" before hiring a Biden press secretary to handle .... "culture war" messaging issues.
4) NY Magazine reports that Iger remains a critical funder for Biden's reelection.
5) As for Media Matters, the NY Times reported in 2004 the Democratic Party operative David Brock created them with the help of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party think tank and lobby shop.
6) After Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, Brock retooled Media Matters to move into the digital space and attack “misinformation.” See Brock's "privileged and confidential" memo documentcloud.org/documents/3440…
7) Media Matters has constantly attacked Musk since he bought Twitter and took away the party's censorship toy. After I released #TwitterFiles exposing Taylor Lorenz for coordinating with the old Twitter to censor @DrJBhattacharya, Media Matters leapt to downplay the documents.
8) The Center for Countering Digital Hate has a similar political background and was created by the conservative wing of the British Labour Party to attack the Left and Right.
9) The group is run by political operative Imran Ahmed who does not disclose his ties to British intelligence, nor who funds him. The chair of CCDH is Simon Clark, formerly with the Democratic Party's Center for American Progress.
10) Here's Simon Clark's bio at the Atlantic Council, which works with the Biden Administration on censoring Americans.
11) Imran Ahmed refused to disclose his donors, but I found that 75% of CCDH's money is cycled through a dark money group.
A board member is Hollywood agent Aleen Keshishian.
12. Here's Aleen's bio at USC. Note that one of her clients is actor Mark Ruffalo. I have been told that Imran Ahmed spends time in LA fundraising.
And guess which actor comes out to support him in attacks on @elonmusk?
13) Hi, @markruffalo. If you're in the audience.
14) You don't need to support Musk to be concerned that a political party--either Democrat or Republican--feels emboldened to attack corporations when the CEO doesn't donate to them or support their censorship activities. Read more at @DisInfoChron tinyurl.com/yckh8cz
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1) A week Fauci was caught lying to NY Times, House investigators catch NIH lying to @statnews' @HelenBranswell & @ScienceMagazine's @jocelynkaiser about virus research.
Will #scicomm writers finally stop protecting NIH?
2) @sciencemagazine first reported that NIH researcher Bernie Moss planned gain-of-function monkeypox experiments—swapping out genes from various variants—to understand why some are more dangerous or transmissible than others.
3) This article triggered a second Science Magazine story about Moss's dangerous research. The reporter then updated the article with NIAID claiming Moss's research involved clade 2a, not clade 2b monkeypox virus.
1) After @cochranecollab Karla Soares-Weiser threw scientists under the bus, she has backtracked on her mask review statement.
Soares-Weiser has still not explained her unprofessional collusion w/ @zeynep pauldthacker.com/blog/
2) On Friday, Soares Weiser quietly released a statement explaining that she would not be editing the Cochrane review on masks. Her prior March 2023 statement created a maelstrom of misinformation, including a spurious NY Times essay by social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci.
3) Tufekci's misleading essay kicked off a defamatory tweet by @Laurie_Garrett who accused the Cochrane scientists of being "bozos" to had confessed to "fraud."
Tony Fauci's deputy, David Morens, admitted in a hearing he deleted government records and conspired with EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak to restore Daszak's grant.
At the hearing's end, Morens' lawyer whispered to him, "Tie your shoe." pauldthacker.com/blog/
2) Morens admitted that he edited a compliance letter Daszak sent to the NIH, edited an EcoHealth Alliance press release after NIH terminated Daszak’s grant, and “put in a word” to the EcoHealth Alliance board when Daszak was worried about being fired.
1) History has stopped. Nothing exists except the #COVID narrative—which is always right.
Tulane's John M. Barry printed "Masks Work" nonsense in the @nytopinion that contradicts history and his own book "The Great Influenza." pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) John Barry is author of the NY Times bestseller "The Great Influenza" in which he wrote masks were "useless" against influenza.
3) But in the NY Times, Barry wrote we know masks work since 1917.
So I did what @katiekings at the NY Times didn't do. I asked Barry where he got that fact. Barry emailed that it comes from a Dr. Joseph Capps JAMA article in 1918.
1) Science historian @equal_ibrium writes that Democrats laid into EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak for reckless virus research.
He then asks if the bureaucracy is trying to make Daszak the fall guy, because more are responsible, especially funders. tinyurl.com/mkv4uet
2) Democratic Ranking Member, Raul Ruiz, told Daszak in his closing statement. “It is important that you and your organization be held accountable.”
3) Also, why has UNC's Ralph Baric been so slient?
Emails and a deposition show he has been privately outraged about Daszak's BP on dangerous biosafety standards at the WIV and Baric admits a lab accident might have caused the pandemic.
1) Whistleblower says "New Knowledge" cybersecurity firm run by Jonathan Morgan & Renee DiResta trafficked in election disinformation.
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks:
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
3) Betsy Depuis was tasked w/ improving the Hamilton 68 dashboard, a job paid for by the Center for American Progress. @mtaibbi later exposed the dashboard spread disinformation, and the Washington Post ran multiple corrections.