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French media and social networks were abuzz Tuesday with speculation about a mysterious offer to influencers and YouTube personalities asking them to publicly denigrate the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 v…
Online influencers offered cash bribe to smear Pfizer vaccine
UK agency linked to ‘dangerous’ campaign which reportedly offered YouTubers payments to claim Pfizer causes more deaths than AstraZeneca
25 May 2021 • 5:09pm
French health minister Olivier Véran said there was no chance the scheme would have worked
Credit: Franck Fife/AFP
France’s health minister has blasted as “dangerous, irresponsible and pathetic” an attempt by a mysterious “UK-based” PR agency asking influencers and YouTube personalities to publicly denigrate the Pfizer vaccine in exchange for money.
Targets of the campaign, who are active in the health and science fields, said they had received an email offer by the agency of a partnership on behalf of a customer with a colossal budget but who wanted to remain anonymous and also to keep any deal secret.
PARIS, FRANCE French media and social networks were abuzz Tuesday with speculation about a mysterious offer to influencers and YouTube personalities asking them to publicly denigrate the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in return for money. Those targeted by the campaign, who are active in the health and science fields, said they had received an email from an apparently U.K.-based communications agency offering them a partnership on behalf of a client with a colossal budget but who wanted to remain anonymous and also to keep any deal secret. Strange. I ve received a partnership proposal which consists of slamming the Pfizer vaccine in a video, tweeted Leo Grasset, whose popular science channel has nearly 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube.
PARIS (Reuters) - Several French social media sites say they have been approached by a communications agency which offered them money to spread negative publicity about the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a ploy the health minister described as dangerous and irresponsible.