🧵 on an anti-vax propaganda campaign in action

[soothsayer]

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🧵 on a propaganda campaign in action

Charlie Haynes
@charliehtweets
A mysterious London based PR agency is offering French influencers cash to launder disinformation about the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines - asking them to falsely claim the jabs are responsible for hundreds of deaths and tell people to "draw their own conclusions".

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simone delavega
@simonedelavega
This disinformation on vaccines has been traced back to MOSCOW.
12:24 PM · May 25, 2021

nes
@charliehtweets
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May 24, 2021
Replying to @charliehtweets
French YouTuber « Dirty Biology » who has 1.2mil subscribers tweeted about the offer earlier today.

"Colossal budget, client who wants to stay incognito and the sponsor must be kept hidden"

Léo Grasset
@dirtybiology
C'est étrange.
J'ai reçu une proposition de partenariat qui consiste à déglinguer le vaccin Pfizer en vidéo. Budget colossal, client qui veut rester incognito et il faut cacher la sponso.
Éthique/20. Si vous voyez des vidéos là dessus vous saurez que c'est une opé, du coup.
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Charlie Haynes
@charliehtweets
French news site @Numerama got hold of a copy of the letter sent to influencers by a PR film called Fazze on behalf of an "incognito client". It is a playbook in anti-vax propaganda.

https://t.co/0yaG8aR3b8


Charlie Haynes
@charliehtweets
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May 24, 2021
Replying to @charliehtweets
In dodgy English the group asks influencers to:

"put a question like "Why some governments actively purchasing Pfizer vaccine, which is dangerous to health of people"
and "Encourage viewers to draw their own conclusions, take care of themselves and their loved ones."





The same group has also been reaching out to German influencers - here a YouTube with a 1.5m followers - asking if they want to be a part of an “information campaign”. We have no idea how many people - less principled - will have taken up the offer.

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Mirko Drotschmann
@MrWissen2Go
Sehr interessant: Eine Agentur meldet sich und fragt, ob ich Teil einer „Informationskampagne“ sein will. Es geht darum, einen Link zu angeblich geleakten Dokumenten zu Todesfällen bei Corona-Impfungen zu teilen. Gegen Geld. Sitz der Agentur: London. Wohnort des CEO: Moskau.




Calling themselves an “influencer marketing agency” Fazze tells would be partners they’re based in London. But there is no trace of them on companies house. The CEO and head of sales - the only people I could find - appear to be Moscow based.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. BBC: France puzzled by mystery anti-Pfizer campaign offer

Several French social media influencers say they have received a mysterious financial offer to spread negative publicity about the Pfizer vaccine.

They say an agency claiming to be based in the UK has contacted them by email offering a "partnership".

Léo Grasset, who has 1.17m YouTube subscribers, tweeted (in French) that a "colossal budget" was promised from a client "who wants to remain incognito".
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He said the LinkedIn profiles of the agency's alleged employees he had managed to find later disappeared, but not before he noticed that "everybody there has worked in Russia".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57250285

Yeah, this has Russia all over it. "In April, a European Union report said Russian and Chinese state-run media were systematically trying to sow public mistrust in Western Covid vaccines - a claim denied in Moscow."