Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

by Sharyl Attkisson

In another briefing, they proclaimed, “This week we saw the censorship discussion take a partisan turn. Breitbart News and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and foreign media outlets [sic] RT pushed similar stories about the White House’s relationship with social media.” Yet in truth, there was little partisan agreement at the time among the groups named—quite the opposite. Breitbart News typically comes from the right, while Tucker Carlson could be said to lean anti-establishment and libertarian-conservative, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a lifelong liberal Democrat. When such a diverse group began to express similar criticism of White House censorship efforts, it threatened to sway the general public. The Virality Project’s effort to brush off agreement among them as “partisan” was itself an exercise in disinformation.