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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 BBC Disinformation team claims to exist in order to weed out disinformation campaigns to expose them. Instead, what this team have become is not a disinformation team seeking out conspiracy theories but a team pushing disinformation.

What happened at Grafton Street?

On Saturday 27th February 2021, thousands gathered in Dublin to protest against the authoritarian regime they have been forced to live under for 12 months. A few protesters had a different idea of how the day should go.

N.I. Public Health Agency & Covid Advertising Costs

The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland has dished out over £450K on Covid fear-mongering at a time when 25% of children in NI live in poverty. Thanks to a Freedom of Information request I can reveal where most of that spending ends up.

Citizenjournos Fact-Check The “Fact-Checkers”

Facebook sponsored FullFact.org supported the BBC's estimate that 10K people attended London's 24th of April pro-freedom rally. When I challenged FullFact on this they accepted it was likely in teh region of 30K people in attendance.

Covid-19 Has It’s Own Advertising Agency in NI

The NI Executive has spent huge sums of money on advertising Covid to ensure people remain aware it's still a threat, in case they had forgotten. We submitted a FOI request asking for a breakdown of their advertising costs.

BBC Caught in an ‘Ass-Covering’ Exercise

The BBC’s Marie-Louise Connolly called for “young ones” in the 0-19 age group to be vaccinated. When challenged the BBC responded by saying that by “young ones” she meant those under 59. When challenged again the BBC concluded she meant teenagers only. In this example, we show how far the BBC will go to cover up for its won journalist’s disasters.

Deepti Gurdasani: Ignored Right of Reply

Following on from our investigation into the misinformation being spread by Deepti Gurdasani, we now publish the Right of Reply offer she declined.

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