The owner of a 104-employee Cape Coral health supplements business that received $132,000 in local tax breaks in 2019 and a $282,500 federal pandemic bailout loan last year was the subject of a New York Times report over the weekend that called him “the most influential spreader of coronavirus misinformation online.” Joseph Mercola, a 67-year-old former family practice physician who operates Mercola.com Health Resources and is a well-known figure in the anti-vaccine movement, denied he was spreading false information and threatened to sue the Times over the report. "The NY Times is spreading disinformation, they have been sent legal notice," he tweeted Monday.