YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments
A PR agent from Burson-Marsteller reached out to a tech blogger named Christopher Soghoian and asked him to write a critical op-ed about a Google product. Recounting the story Soghoian says Burson-Marsteller offered to “draft” the op-ed for Soghoian and get it published in a “top-tier” outlet like the Washington Post, Politico, the Hill, Roll Call,
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Special Report: Top brands are sending $2.6 billion to misinformation websites each year - NewsGuard
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The fact that supposedly reputable news organizations are openly working in concert with governments to craft narratives around Covid—and now to push vaccines and demonize the unvaccinated—is extraordinarily dangerous. And the fact that Twitter banned me at the open urging of the federal government is a betrayal of American values that is hard to b
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Even in the United States, remdesivir wound up being given to only about half of all hospitalized Covid patients.19 Still, the treatment turned into a bonanza for Gilead Sciences, its maker. Gilead earned over $4 billion from remdesivir in the first nine months after it began selling the drug.
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Digital ads are a $330-billion global business, according to estimates by the research firm eMarketer, and one that’s increasingly dominated by a few major players like Google and Facebook. Google plays a dual role in it both as one of the biggest sellers of online ads on the planet, and also the biggest tech company placing online ads on third-par... See more