Investigations Team, Author at Citizen Journalists

The Unmasking of Deepti Gurdasani: Disinformation and Misrepresentation

Deepti Gurdasani is a lecturer in Machine Learning at Queen Mary University in London. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she became a loud voice advocating on behalf of the extremist ideology for Zero Covid with a special focus on how kids are, in her view, ‘huge spreaders’ of the virus and therefore needed every aspect of their lives curtailed. In this report, we investigate some of Gurdasani’s claims and find purposeful disinformation emanating from her around schools and their alleged impact on community transmission rates.

Dan Hodges: The Flip-Flopper

Dan Hodges is renowned for his divisiveness and hypocrisy on COVID-19 responses. Whilst being humiliated seems to be an acceptable payoff for getting attention for Dan, his public breakdowns and denialism do little to inspire confidence in a struggling corporate media industry and in the people who may look to journalists for guidance.

The Telegraph’s Henry Bodkin Publishes Disinformation – 12-15 year olds are not “most responsible for COVID-19 spread”.

Henry Bodkin wrote in the Telegraph that 12-15 year olds were significant spreaders of COVID-19. When I asked him to prove his claim, he was unable to do so.

Outdoor Events Are Safe: The London Protest

The #londonprotest of 24th April was billed by opponents as a “super-spreader” event and those attending it as “selfish” who didn’t care they could potentially kill elderly relatives. The data now tells us these claims were irrational and not evidence based.

Nobody Does Disinformation Better Than The BBC’s ‘anti-disinformation’ Unit – PART II

In this second part of our BBC “anti-disinformation” unit exposé, we look at further evidence of the fake news being pushed by this small, controversial online outfit.

Nobody Does Disinformation Better Than The BBC’s ‘anti-disinformation’ Unit

The stated aim of the BBC’s Disinformation unit is to weed out disinformation campaigns. Instead, this team exists to control the flow of disinformation.

Northern Ireland’s Zero Covid Strategy

The Northern Ireland Executive have embarked on a strategy of Zero-Covid as a COVID-19 pandemic response. However, they have not declared such a strategy to the citizens and instead are driving it through covertly.

CONFIRMED: There Wasn’t A “Whole Ward of [Covid] Children” as Claimed by Laura Duffell of Kings College Hospital.

2021 was celebrated in the UK with an interview on the BBC of Laura Duffell, a Matron from Kings College Hospital in London. Laura would claim that “we have a whole ward of children here .” Being sceptical of the claim I submitted a FOI request to the Trust seeking confirmation.

Trish Greenhalgh Continues Pushing Misinformation

Having already exposed Professor Trish Greenhalgh as providing misinformation on national TV, I reached out to her suggesting that an apology be issued given the seriousness of the matter. Instead of apologising she doubled-down behind more false claims.

‘Gruby Grove’ Sets Twitter on Fire

“Gruby Grove’ is a street entertainer from Cork who found himself the centre of a grand conspiracy theory pushed by some far-left extremists on social media. As an entertainer he plays with fire. Today his detractors got burnt.

Author: Investigations Team (page 4)