A Current Affair, true to form, ran the most
A Current Affair story on Monday night when it decided to take on infamous conspiracy theorist
Pete Evans. And it went as well as you would expect – bad, it was so bad. The promo is enough to make you sigh so hard you’ll feel like you just shat out your lungs.
So, the gist of
ACA‘s story focused on Evans flogging a 3,500-acre village development called Nightcap, located about an hour’s drive away from his Byron Bay Evolve Health Lab.
According to Evans’ website, the philosophy behind Nightcap is to “get back to the tribal wisdom of living in harmony with Mother Nature as well as the fundamental lore of Doing No Harm.”
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The controversial conspiracy theorist had used the apps to spread Covid-19 misinformation to his hundreds of thousands of followers
On Wednesday, Facebook expanded the list of false claims it promises to remove, adding several more about coronavirus and the vaccines.
False claims that the company says won t be tolerated include that Covid-19 is man-made, that it s safer to get the disease than the vaccine, and that vaccines are toxic, dangerous or cause autism.
Facebook consulted with health groups like the World Health Organization before expanding the list.
Evans was a judge on My Kitchen Rules between 2010 and 2020.
Pete Evans used his Instagram account to cast doubt on official information about coronavirus and the validity of the vaccine, pictured with wife Nicola Robinson
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