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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.

Can an Infectious Jogger Transmit COVID19?

Trish Greenhalgh of the University of Oxford has suggested a jogger infected with COVID19 could pass it to a pedestrian as they run past “puffing and panting”. Her claim was carried by many major news outlets. But just how rooted is that claim in evidence or science?

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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