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The Telegraph Retraction: No evidence that 12-15 year olds are “most responsible” for spreading

Henry Bodkin, a correspondent for the Telegraph claimed that “12 to 15-year-olds one of the age groups most responsible for spreading the virus.” After refusing to provide evidence for his claim we appealed to the Telegraph complaints department and forced them into retracting the statement.

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.

CitizenJournos Fact Check Another BBC “Fact-Checker”

The BBC felt the need to setup "BBC Verify" which is a team of self-styled "fact checkers" employed to police social media and decide what is fact and what is disinformation. But who fact-checks the fact-checkers? We do!

BBC Journalist Breached Editorial Guidelines: The Zelensky Hug

On the 28th of February 2023, in what the Huffington Post called “a heart-warming moment” and the New York Post labelled as “a touching moment” a journalist from BBC Ukraine (@bbc_ua) told the Ukrainian leader during a press conference with…

How the corporate media pressured the Health Board into suspending a doctor.

This is a story of how corporate media interfered with due process to pressure the Department of Health and the Health and Social Care Board into censoring and suspending a doctor for saying things they didn't like.

William Crawley And The Rise of Broadcast Disinformation

The BBC's William Crawley likes to position himself as a gatekeeper for the truth - someone who is at the forefront of tackling whatever he deems to be "misinformation". But William quite often spreads lies and disinformation himself. So who fact-checks him? Well, we do!

Trish Greenhalgh Caught Out Telling More Lies on Face Masks

Trish Greenhalgh is a mask zealot who has chosen the face mask debate as the rock on which her long academic career could well perish. We expose yet another instance of her making up stories to try and prove her narrative.

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