WorldNetDaily’s serial misinformation campaign about COVID and its vaccines continued in a Sept. 23 article by Bob Unruh:
Google has confirmed in a letter to Congress that Joe Biden demanded censorship of COVID and elections information on YouTube that conflicted with his ideological agenda at the time.
“It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden administration, attempts to dictate how the company moderates content, and the company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds,” Google’s lawyer said in a letter to Congress.
The letter was the result of oversight work by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
[…]The fights over speech triggered by Biden’s censorship agendas included his attempt to suppress many true statement statements about COVID, that it came out of Chinese lab experimenting on how to make bat viruses more dangerous, and that he demanded Americans take the experimental shots for the virus.
Those shots since have proven to be capable of causing serious injury to recipients, including death.
In fact, neither of Unruh’s claims have been proven to be definitively true. It has not been proven that the virus came from a Chinese lab leak — and there is much evidence to argue that the virus surfaced naturally — and COVID vaccines, which are not “experimental,” are safer than catching COVID itself. Unurh then peddled an old lie:
He also demanded suppression of comments about the failures of the American election system in the 2020 presidential vote that gave him the White House. Since then the public has learned that there were two major outside and undue influences on that election, one being the handout by Mark Zuckerberg of some $400 million to local election officials who often used it to recruit Democrat votes. Never before in American elections had such an amount of private money been used to influence the vote.
As we’ve documented, Unruh is lying — he has never offered evidence that any Zuckerberg money went specifically to target Democrats, and he did not explain why encouraging people to vote is such a horrible thing.
An anonymously written Oct. 7 article hyped a dubious study:
A new study from South Korea has documented how COVID shots and their boosters, mandated by corporations, military commanders, federal officials and more during the pandemic created by the China virus, push up the risk of cancers.
A report at Childrens Health Defense cites the study by South Koreans published in Biomarker Research, a Springer Nature journal.
The study included more than eight million people and found COVID-19 shots and boosters “are associated with a higher risk of breast, colorectal, gastric, lung, prostate and thyroid cancer, across all vaccine types and age groups.”
Not true, as a more credible report noted:
In fact, the study’s findings do not support these claims. The authors observed that vaccinated people were more likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers within a year of vaccination, but noted that the timeline was “relatively short for evaluating cancer incidence.”
Experts and social media users pointed out that vaccinated groups are typically older and more likely to have health conditions that increase cancer risk, which likely explains the observed association.. The study authors also acknowledged potential “reverse causation or surveillance bias,” meaning that increased medical attention after vaccination could have led to more cancer detections.
The article went on to huff that “‘Mainstream medical commentators’ claimed the findings are ‘flawed. But others found value in the results.” WND buried those flaws, and it continued to promote anti-vaxxer narratives:
Critics charged the study failed to account for family histories of cancer, and screening histories.
But Children’s Health Defense research scientist Karl Jablonowski explained, “The criticism levied against the study is of healthy user bias. The idea that people more likely to engage in one medical intervention (vaccination) are also more likely to engage in another (cancer screening) … is a valid concern for a vaxed-unvaxed study such as this one, as those seeking a vaccine will have drastically different healthcare-seeking behavior than those not seeking a vaccine.
“[However,] this is not just a vaxed-unvaxed study — it also differentiates the vaccines. Healthy user bias is not a point of argument for why one vaccine (cDNA) shows a strong cancer risk above another (mRNA). Further, the study doesn’t say vaccines cause cancer, but are associated with them.”
WND failed to disclose that Children’s Health Defense is an anti-vaxxer group with a certain bias.
WND also posted a Sept. 8 podcast from Tucker Carlson in which he tried to portray Kirk Moore — a doctor who committed crimes by destroying COVID vaccines, selling falsified vaccination cards and injecting saline into children pretending it was a COVID vaccine — into some kind of sick anti-vaxxer hero.