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Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL union executive Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy Educator Counterdisinformationproject.substack.com

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The birth defects talked about here were already known to be present PRIOR to vaccination. Facts matter. Do a deeper dive.

04.10.2025 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kulldorff promotes vaccine birth defects disinformation Prior to the pandemic he worked on genuinely useful projects, but the contrarian path has reduced him to a mouthpiece for RFKs antivax talking points

Kulldorff promotes vaccine
birth defects disinformation

Prior to the pandemic he worked on genuinely useful projects, but the contrarian path has reduced him to a mouthpiece for RFKs antivax talking points
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

03.10.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Kulldorff promotes vaccine birth defects disinformation Prior to the pandemic he worked on genuinely useful projects, but the contrarian path has reduced him to a mouthpiece for RFKs antivax talking points

Kulldorff promotes vaccine
birth defects disinformation

Prior to the pandemic he worked on genuinely useful projects, but the contrarian path has reduced him to a mouthpiece for RFKs antivax talking points
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

03.10.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So apparently HHS Deputy Sec/CDC acting director Jim O'Neill spoke at the rabidly anti-science AAPS annual meeting yesterday to shit on vaccines etc, and got interrupted by hidden speakers playing three songs (Entry of the Gladiators aka the circus song, Witch Doctor, and Billy Joel's Honesty). 1/

12.09.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 664    ๐Ÿ” 163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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Reform UK expels Seaham councillor over drunken behaviour Jack McGlenen will continue to represent the Dalton and Dawdon ward as an Independent.

I wondered why his councillor page had him now listed as an independent... (and asked him, too - now we know...)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

26.09.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 136    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

This still hurts. Iโ€™ll never forget how somebody played this ๐Ÿ’ฉ video as I was on shift in NY where we were fighting to keep deadly ill COVID patients alive. While NY was going through unimaginable horror, these people had nothing better to do than produce disinformation. ๐Ÿคฌ And yes, they always grift

26.09.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Daily Sceptic is atrocious

24.09.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Police at the door, no its not a free speech issue Blue ticks profit as a viral video leads to police having to address rampant disinformation, again

Police at the door, no its not a free speech issue

Blue ticks profit as a viral video leads to police having to address rampant
disinformation, again
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

24.09.2025 05:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A reviewer quoting Collateral Global is pretty bleak considering the organisation supported by opaque foundations like the Donorโ€™s Trust doesnt produce proper peer reviewed papers

24.09.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, they asked for 'both sides' in sCIenCe.๐Ÿคฌ

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24.09.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Police at the door, no its not a free speech issue Blue ticks profit as a viral video leads to police having to address rampant disinformation, again

Police at the door, no its not a free speech issue

Blue ticks profit as a viral video leads to police having to address rampant
disinformation, again
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

24.09.2025 05:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
HOW TO PEDDLE DISINFORMATION

1. Start with ad hominem attacks on the CDC committee working to restore public trust in vaccines.

2. Ignore the 14 hours of public deliberation where members explained their reasoning and scientific justification.

3. Then stack the deckโ€”quote more than 20 professional critics and just four of the 12 committee members, as if balance and accuracy donโ€™t matter.

Thatโ€™s not reporting. Thatโ€™s disinformation. Not the first time either.

HOW TO PEDDLE DISINFORMATION 1. Start with ad hominem attacks on the CDC committee working to restore public trust in vaccines. 2. Ignore the 14 hours of public deliberation where members explained their reasoning and scientific justification. 3. Then stack the deckโ€”quote more than 20 professional critics and just four of the 12 committee members, as if balance and accuracy donโ€™t matter. Thatโ€™s not reporting. Thatโ€™s disinformation. Not the first time either.

Reminder: personally attacking a journalist for criticizing the government is not normal agency conduct.

It's a pretty clear attempt to intimidate the journalist, and from those that complained about government censorship, like
Secretary Kennedy did, the hypocrisy is jarring.

22.09.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 182    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Trying to find a link incase I mixed them up with the alliance for natural health who are very similar and possibly linked, neither are big hitters

21.09.2025 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And by the way.
Jimmy Kimmel didn't say ANYTHING about Charlie Kirk.
He criticized two things:
The MAGA effort to score political points by painting the killer as a Democrat.
Trump responding to a question about his grief with comments about his ballroom.
MAGA and Trump. Period.

21.09.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

PHA we're around pre-pandemic, alternative treatments wellbeing nonsense, so of course they do promote antivax narratives, one of the UsForThem founders spoke at one of their online events around April/May 2020

21.09.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thread

21.09.2025 08:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thread on the alternative reality increasingly being adopted by RW media

03.02.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
19.09.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
19.09.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Profile:Danny Kruger, more Christian Nationalist than Traditional Conservative Reform's new MP's links to Legatum, Peter Thiel, Paul Marshall, James Orr and JD Vance

Profile: Danny Kruger, more Christian Nationalist than Traditional Conservative

Reform's new MP's links to Legatum, Peter Thiel, Paul Marshal, James Orr and JD Vance
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

18.09.2025 18:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Profile:Danny Kruger, more Christian Nationalist than Traditional Conservative Reform's new MP's links to Legatum, Peter Thiel, Paul Marshall, James Orr and JD Vance

Profile: Danny Kruger, more Christian Nationalist than Traditional Conservative

Reform's new MP's links to Legatum, Peter Thiel, Paul Marshal, James Orr and JD Vance
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

18.09.2025 18:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Great info countering narratives from these accounts: @karambales.bsky.social John Bye on x @decodingtrolls.net @walkerbragman.bsky.social

16.09.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.

15.09.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4982    ๐Ÿ” 906    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Farage can't distance himself so easily from anti-vax conspiracy theorists Farage's involvement with Malhotra goes back several years, and others with the same views also participated in the conference

Farage can't distance himself so easily from anti-vax conspiracy
theorists

Farage's involvement with Malhotra goes back several years, and others with the same views also participated in the conference
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

15.09.2025 06:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Farage can't distance himself so easily from anti-vax conspiracy theorists Farage's involvement with Malhotra goes back several years, and others with the same views also participated in the conference

Farage can't distance himself so easily from anti-vax conspiracy
theorists

Farage's involvement with Malhotra goes back several years, and others with the same views also participated in the conference
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

15.09.2025 06:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As this article notes, one of the potential new ACIP members is affiliated with the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, known for promoting the anti-parasitic ivermectin for Covid.

This is the second IMA affiliate apparently headed for ACIP.

08.09.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 94    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Nuremberg & Turbo Cancers; some of the UK media's prefered covid experts Angus Dalgeish goes down the "Nuremberg" rabbit hole

If you're wondering about Dalgeish that Malhotra was quoting, he's actually been quoted in various mainstream outlets, mainly RW due to his anti-lockdown views, yet check his TL and its full of claims of vaccines causing cancer

open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

09.09.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Nuremberg & Turbo Cancers; some of the UK media's prefered covid experts Angus Dalgeish goes down the "Nuremberg" rabbit hole

If you're wondering about Dalgeish that Malhotra was quoting, he's actually been quoted in various mainstream outlets, mainly RW due to his anti-lockdown views, yet check his TL and its full of claims of vaccines causing cancer

open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

09.09.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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LADAPO: This whole 'Florida hasn't done any analysis' -- that's nonsense

TAPPER: You said you hadn't done any projections!

LADAPO: We don't need to do any projections

07.09.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6572    ๐Ÿ” 1636    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1136    ๐Ÿ“Œ 366

Who needs data when you've got antivax vibes?

08.09.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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