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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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Tommy Robinson Praises Putin, Slams “British Presstitutes” During Whirlwind Tour of Russian Media
Read more: Tommy Robinson Praises Putin, Slams “British Presstitutes” During Whirlwind Tour of Russian MediaThe anti-Islam activist pandered to pro-Kremlin media, mingled with a U.S.-sanctioned propagandist, and had some choice words for the British press. RIA FAN headline (source) Tommy Robinson, the co-founder and former leader of the anti-Islam English Defence League (EDL), landed in St. Petersburg last week for a whirlwind tour of Russian media, during which he…
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BBC Monitoring: Russian “Troll Factory” Cries Foul Over U.S. Ad Removal
Read more: BBC Monitoring: Russian “Troll Factory” Cries Foul Over U.S. Ad RemovalI wrote this story for BuzzFeed News, then I was targeted by a Russian disinfo campaign. BBC Monitoring reports Earlier this month, I bylined a story in BuzzFeed News, “A Russian Propagandist Ran An Ad In The Washington Post — And Then Ran Victory Laps In Russian Media.” After that story was published, a bunch…
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Muck Rack Verified (Then Unverified) These Seemingly Fake Journalists
Read more: Muck Rack Verified (Then Unverified) These Seemingly Fake JournalistsPetar Mikonoss and Dragana Stepic purportedly write for once-popular women’s site The Frisky. There’s no evidence either of them actually exist. In its heyday, The Frisky was one of the most beloved women’s sites on the internet. Founded by Turner Broadcasting in 2008, the site offered a “unique brand of funny, informative and relatable content…
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Round-Up 2019: Creating a Buzz
Read more: Round-Up 2019: Creating a BuzzHackers, backlinks, and Russian trolls. Revisiting my scoopiest stories of 2019 First up, a perennial thanks to zen master blogger Peter Heimlich and his wife Karen Shulman, BuzzFeed News Media Editor Craig Silverman, EIC Ben Smith, and online disinfo chronicler extraordinaire Jane Lytvynenko, Daily Beast EIC Noah Shachtman, reporters Lachlan Markay, Lachlan Cartwright, and Asawin…
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