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Facebook Continues to Host Political Ads from Chinese Communist Party Mouthpiece
Read more: Facebook Continues to Host Political Ads from Chinese Communist Party MouthpieceThe ads comprise two videos from the Global Times defending China’s crackdown on political protests and attacking the Trump administration’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic. Update, August 28, 2020: The two Global Times ads have been removed from Facebook’s ad library. A message reads: “This ad is no longer available in the library. This…
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The Economist Disappears “Advertisement Feature” Paid for by Chinese State-Backed Paper
Read more: The Economist Disappears “Advertisement Feature” Paid for by Chinese State-Backed PaperPaid content from the Beijing Review included an article attacking western news outlets and defending China’s botched response to the coronavirus outbreak. source In April, I bylined a story in BuzzFeed News about how during the pandemic, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph continued to sell advertising space on its site to the People’s Daily Online,…
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New Action Film “Shugalei” is Propaganda for Putin’s Cook
Read more: New Action Film “Shugalei” is Propaganda for Putin’s CookThe film credits election-meddling Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin as copyright holder. Yet the film’s co-financier, Alexander Malkevich, claims he was “not aware Prigozhin took any part in the creation of the film.” source As Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord wrests back control of Tripoli from Khalifa Haftar, the renegade leader of the Libyan National…
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Roger Stone’s Style Blog is Now a Spammy Marketing Site
Read more: Roger Stone’s Style Blog is Now a Spammy Marketing SiteStoneOnStyle.com was a fashion and politics blog run by Trump’s flamboyant campaign trickster. Now it’s used to promote hair loss treatments and online gambling. source In the midst of an ill-judged media blitz last year after being charged in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, it appears that Trump’s former campaign trickster Roger Stone either sold off…
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David “Avocado” Wolfe is Hawking Unproven Coronavirus Cures
Read more: David “Avocado” Wolfe is Hawking Unproven Coronavirus CuresThe NutriBullet spokesman and flat-earth conspiracist is selling colloidal silver, medicinal mushrooms, charcoal, and an air purification system. Wolfe is known for making out-there claims. For example, he claims salt prevents the oceans from levitating off the earth, and gravity is a toxin that can be combated by hanging upside down (as a cure for arthritis).…
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Daily Telegraph Stops Publishing Propaganda From China Following BuzzFeed News Story
Read more: Daily Telegraph Stops Publishing Propaganda From China Following BuzzFeed News StoryThe British broadsheet had been publishing material from People’s Daily and China Daily, propaganda arms of the Chinese Communist Party. ICYMI, here’s my latest in BuzzFeed News and The Guardian. Via “A British Newspaper Has Given Chinese Coronavirus Propaganda a Direct Line to the UK” by Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, April 1, 2020: When…
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Medical Mentor: “God Bless Every Covid Virus”
Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Medical Mentor: “God Bless Every Covid Virus”Goop contributor Dr. Habib Sadeghi is making bizarre coronavirus-themed content. During a podcast interview last month, Gwyneth Paltrow’s longtime medical mentor and Goop regular Dr. Habib Sadeghi attributed every pandemic from the last 150 years to the “electrification of earth.” Since then, he’s been making increasingly bizarre coronavirus-themed content in a seeming attempt to get…
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Another Goop Contributor is Spreading Discredited Coronavirus Conspiracies
Read more: Another Goop Contributor is Spreading Discredited Coronavirus ConspiraciesDr. Habib Sadeghi, an LA-based integrative medicine practitioner and personal mentor to Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, has linked the virus to the “electrification of earth.” source Last month, I wrote for The Daily Beast about Goop contributor/holistic psychiatrist Kelly Brogan’s coronavirus conspiracy theories. Now another high-profile Goop contributor is spreading similar theories linking the virus…
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The Daily Beast: Goop-Approved Doctor Pushing Coronavirus Conspiracies
Read more: The Daily Beast: Goop-Approved Doctor Pushing Coronavirus ConspiraciesGoop contributor/psychiatrist Kelly Brogan has been spreading junk scientific claims and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Here’s my latest for The Daily Beast. Via “The Gwyneth Paltrow-Approved Doctor Pushing Wacky Coronavirus Conspiracies” by Dean Sterling Jones, The Daily Beast, March 24, 2020: Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow’s “modern lifestyle brand” Goop announced it was closing stores…
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This Goop Author is Spreading Discredited Pseudoscientific Theories About the Coronavirus
Read more: This Goop Author is Spreading Discredited Pseudoscientific Theories About the CoronavirusKelly Brogan, M.D., a New York Times bestselling author/psychiatrist who writes for Gwyneth Paltrow’s alt-med Goop newsletter, has accrued over 30,000 views on Instagram by claiming the coronavirus likely doesn’t exist. [UPDATE: Click here for my follow-up to this story in The Daily Beast.] source Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is a self-proclaimed “lifestyle brand” and online…
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