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Dec 21 5 tweets 5 min read
After the horrific attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, all the people you'd expect immediately blamed Islam and called for Muslims to be deported en masse for one man's crime. Just one problem... Apparently the suspect isn't a Muslim. 🧵 Image
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The apparent suspect in the attack on the Magdeburg market is a Saudi refugee who denounced Islam, accuses Germany of a "secret project to Islamize Europe", and regularly shared posts by far right accounts using similar language to the people who assumed he was an Islamist. Image
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Aug 22 8 tweets 4 min read
Proving once again that he'll do anything that gives him an opportunity to promote himself, Aseem Malhotra is appearing at an online "Long COVID masterclass" .. run by a homeopath and featuring several notorious anti-vaxxers, quacks and conspiracy theorists. 🧵
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The online event which Aseem Malhotra is taking part in and helping to promote is hosted by an American homeopath and "expert in silver and copper therapeutics", who claims he can cure diseases with herbal medicine and "belief in the Holy Spirit"!

Or in layman's terms, a quack.

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Aug 18 6 tweets 4 min read
Good start to Nigel Farage's life as an MP, as he claims that he gave incorrect information to the Register of Interests. 🤦‍♂️ His first entry in the register says he's paid "£97,928.40 a month" by GB News. But now he claims that sum was for "several months of work". 🤷‍♂️
Image Nigel Farage is also the only employee of the "company" that GB News pays him through. So the whole setup is just a tax dodge, and any "significant expenses" it generates are likely to be Farage's own personal spending.

Which sounds so much better.

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/076507…
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Jul 28 7 tweets 5 min read
Racist thug Tommy Robinson and racist mug Laurence Fox held an ironically named "unite the kingdom" rally in London this weekend. Unsurprisingly lots of conspiracy theorists turned up to support them. 🧵

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Alan Miller interviewed Laurence Fox. In the clip Miller defended Tommy Robinson, and claimed that him almost causing a trial to collapse by breaching reporting restrictions was a "free speech" issue. 🤦‍♂️

Miller leads a group of anti-vax and climate change conspiracy theorists.
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Jul 14 9 tweets 7 min read
Conspiracist X went into overdrive after the attempt on Trump's life yesterday. Within minutes they'd already misidentified the shooter and blamed everyone from the CIA and Mossad to the "Deep State" for the shooting, which sadly claimed the life of a bystander at the rally. 🧵 Image Conspiracy theorists quickly identified the shooter as "antifa extremist" Mark Violets, saying he posted a video before the attack and had been arrested. None of which was true.

The photo is of an Italian football blogger, and the real shooter was dead.

reuters.com/fact-check/ita…



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Jun 29 4 tweets 4 min read
Last week Andrew Bridgen claimed Ukraine might be working on a dirty bomb to use in a "false flag" attack in Europe. Unsurprisingly his comments have now been amplified by the Russian military and state media, and echoed back by Russian assets and useful idiots here in the UK. 🧵


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Andrew Bridgen had an "incredibly productive" meeting with the Russian ambassador in London earlier this year.

Since then he's claimed Rishi Sunak called the election to avoid being a wartime PM, and that Ukraine's planning a "false flag" nuclear attack in Europe "like 9/11". 😳

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Jun 28 8 tweets 5 min read
Reform's manifesto (or "contract") panders to conspiracy theorists, falsely linking covid vaccines to excess deaths and pledging to "reject" the WEF, WHO and digital currencies.

Unsurprising, given many of their supporters and candidates have rather odd views on these topics. 🧵


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Nigel Farage and his Reform Party recently got an endorsement from Laurence Fox of the similarly named Reclaim Party.

Farage even recorded a video with Fox, who has repeatedly compared the Pride flag to the Swastika and promoted Islamophobia.

With friends like these...
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Jun 27 11 tweets 11 min read
Reform's candidate in Edinburgh South West, Ian Harper, was a vocal backer of ivermectin, and the grifters and frauds who promoted it as a cure for covid. In his bio for Reform, he talks about a "globalist agenda" seeking to "collapse society".

Not the worst thing he's said. 🧵

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Ian Harper's first Twitter account was suspended, and he's now locked his second (presumably to stop voters seeing it). Luckily the internet (and its archives) remembers.

Most of his pandemic posts seem to consist of vastly exaggerated claims about the wonders of ivermectin. 🙄


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Jun 25 4 tweets 3 min read
Reform's candidate in Twickenham is a member of anti-vax misinformation group HART. In leaked chat logs, Alex Starling called vaccinating children "a perverted abomination", and talked about sneaking HART content and campaigns into articles he wrote for UK news site Reaction. 🧵

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If you've not come across them before, HART identify as "a group of highly qualified doctors, scientists and other experts" who just "question the narrative". But many of their members believe covid vaccines were designed to depopulate the Earth! 😳

Jun 18 4 tweets 3 min read
John Mappin appeared on Russian TV at the weekend, claiming the British public doesn't support Ukraine. Because he spoke to a few friends, and they all love Russia too. 🤷‍♂️

Mappin often retweets Putin's propaganda, and last year claimed he could instantly end the Ukraine war. 🤔
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Russian asset / useful idiot John Mappin has also been out campaigning for Nigel Farage in Clacton-on-Sea. Haven't they suffered enough already?

Mappin previously backed Andrew Bridgen, after the MP compared covid vaccines to the Holocaust. Just the man you want on your side. 🤦‍♂️
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Jun 6 7 tweets 5 min read
The BMJ has had to issue a statement after everyone from The Telegraph and former Brexit Minister David Davis to anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists claimed that covid vaccines may be responsible for excess deaths, based on a dubious study published in @BMJPublicHealth. 🧵



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The Telegraph's @sarahknapton has a history of this. Two years ago she tried to blame excess deaths (including some covid deaths!) on lockdowns, with a clickbait headline that the article (behind a paywall) failed to support. This is more of the same.

Jun 5 8 tweets 6 min read
Former GB News presenter Mark Steyn is taking Ofcom to court next week, after they called out his false claims about booster shots in 2022.

Amusingly, Naomi Wolf (who called them bioweapons on his show, earning him another Ofcom rebuke) will be there to support him in court. 🍿 Image
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Naomi Wolf says she "accurately presented accurate details" of covid vaccine harms on Mark Steyn's show.

She called them "bioweapons" and "mass murder", and falsely claimed they sterilise people. I doubt that will go down better in court than with Ofcom.

Jun 1 39 tweets 19 min read
Geneva is crank central this weekend, as multiple events target the WHO's annual World Health Assembly. Including a "convoy" of 3 cars, a lawyers' press conference featuring sovereign citizens and 9/11 "truthers", and a host of speakers that may outnumber their audience. 🧵


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I first came across the "Road to Geneva" protest convoy when Dan Astin-Gregory (HART / Pandemic Podcast / "Free Humanity") promoted it at an Andrew Bridgen rally outside Parliament in April.

The whole thing seems to have been rather last minute and shambolic though.


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Apr 19 6 tweets 3 min read
Andrew Bridgen and his supporters held a rally outside Parliament yesterday, after his speech in the House of Commons blaming covid vaccines for excess deaths. The rally saw calls for executions, a speech by Piers Corbyn, and banners claiming vaccines killed 17 million people! 🧵 Image Andrew Bridgen modestly suggested that his speech in Parliament (attended by a handful of MPs) "will be totemic, it will go around the world".

He also falsely claimed that covid vaccines are "damaging everyone's immune system .. and making us more prone to cancer". Image
Mar 28 7 tweets 3 min read
Andrew Bridgen has been ordered to pay Matt Hancock £44,300 in defence costs, after his libel claim against the former Health Secretary was ruled "defective" earlier this month, and needing amendments before the case could proceed. 🧵

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/… While Andrew Bridgen initially tried to claim victory, because the judge didn't throw out his libel claim completely, he's apparently failed to amend his complaint since then.

The latest ruling against him warns that if he doesn't do so soon, the whole case will be dismissed. Image
Mar 27 5 tweets 5 min read
Of all the "doctors" @Nigel_Farage and @GBNEWS could have invited on to talk about the NHS, they picked Ahmad Malik, a self-proclaimed anti-vaxxer who claims 9/11 was a "false flag" attack and covid was a hoax, calls the NHS a cult, and isn't even licensed to practise anymore. 🧵

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Former foot surgeon Ahmad Malik hasn't worked for the NHS since 2017, and gave up his license to practise medicine completely last month. These days he works as a full time podcaster.

Perhaps unsurprising, given his stance on not just covid vaccines but ALL vaccines.


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Mar 5 25 tweets 14 min read
Andrew Bridgen has shared a letter he recently sent to the Metropolitan Police, accusing the government of murder over the covid vaccine programme! He's calling for police to meet some of the most extreme conspiracy theorists in the UK. Here's who they all are...🧵 Image The list of "experts" Andrew Bridgen wants police to meet is a who's who of the British covid conspiracy movement, many of whom he's been working with for years. This latest move seems to be supporting a long running campaign by a man who has called for public hangings! 😬 Image
Feb 25 9 tweets 7 min read
The ITV drama Breathtaking has clearly triggered covid sceptics. Ironically, they're still recycling many of the same vintage conspiracy theories from 2020 that are featured in episode 3 of the mini-series. 🧵


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In particular, the usual suspects are sharing old, false claims that hospitals were empty during the pandemic.

Episode 3 starts with a creep filming part of a hospital that's empty (because elective surgery was cancelled), while other wards were overflowing with covid patients.
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Dec 2, 2023 8 tweets 7 min read
Steve Kirsch has landed in the UK ahead of Monday's meeting in Westminster organised by MP Andrew Bridgen. But his much hyped "record level data" from New Zealand on supposed vaccine deaths is already being torn apart .. by his own side! 🧵


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Steve Kirsch claims leaked New Zealand data shows covid vaccines caused literally impossible death rates.

Fringe party NZ Loyal (1% of the vote at this year's election) seem to be behind the leak, dubbing it "the mother of all revelations".

Other cranks are less convinced...

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Sep 30, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
Laurence Fox and friends seem to have his Reclaim Party's lone MP, Andrew Bridgen, over a barrel.

Recent filings in the Register of Members' Financial Interests suggest they're holding onto £100,000 raised in his name, paying for his house, AND employing him as a consultant. 🧵


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Previous filings showed Fox's Bad Law Project gave thousands of pounds in funding and services for Bridgen's defamation case against Matt Hancock, while Reclaim Party donor Jeremy Hosking gave him a £25,000 interest free loan for his housing costs.

Sep 17, 2023 9 tweets 7 min read
Russell Brand, comedian / actor turned conspiracy theory streamer, was accused this week of rape and predatory behaviour. Fellow members of the so-called "freedom movement" leapt to his defence, saying he was attacked to silence him, before even knowing what he was accused of. 🧵

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Several GB News presenters came out in support of Russell Brand, both before and after details of serious allegations against him were published. Many took a pop at the "relic media", suggesting the "motivation" for the story was that they were scared of his audience.


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