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https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-film-attacking-vaccines-has-racked-million-views
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A film featuring a known anti-vaxxer pushing conspiracy theories and false claims about the novel coronavirus, including attacking vaccines, has racked up more than 9 million views on YouTube. Additionally, the video and its reuploads have tallied more than 16 million Facebook engagements. The spread of the film -- called “Plandemic” -- through reuploads on YouTube shows the platform’s continuing issues with enforcing its policies against coronavirus misinformation during this public health crisis.
In March, as the disease spread throughout the United States, YouTube wrote that it had “worked to prevent misinformation associated with the spread of the virus” and would “quickly remove videos that violate our policies when they are flagged, including those that discourage people from seeking medical treatment or claim harmful substances have health benefits.”
Yet despite that promise -- and despite YouTube’s attempts to take the video down for violating its policies -- “Plandemic” has gone viral on the platform, and has been going viral on Facebook and even trending on Twitter. In the video, a filmmaker named Mikki Willis interviews Dr. Judy Mikovits, a former chronic fatigue researcher whose claims have been retracted by a scientific journal and who was arrested for “allegedly stealing equipment belonging to the Institute that fired her.”
Mikovits has since become popular in anti-vaxx circles -- she attended a recent major anti-vaxx summit -- and has also become involved in efforts to have Dr. Anthony Fauci fired as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force (she relitigated her claims against him, which he has denied, in the film).
The film makes multiple false and misleading claims about the coronavirus and public health. Mikovits argues that mandatory coronavirus vaccines will “kill millions as they already have with their vaccines,” and that “flu vaccines increase the odds by 36% of getting COVID-19” and are part of a plot against what Willis calls “natural remedies” for the virus. Mikovits also asserts that it’s “insanity” to close beaches because somehow the sand and “healing microbes in the ocean” will actually help treat the virus. She also touts anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the virus, despite multiple studies casting doubt on its use, and she and the film push the false claim that the death count from COVID-19 is being inflated. To push that claim the film includes footage of two California doctors pushing the claim in a video that YouTube has already removed for violating the platform’s rules. The film also falsely suggests that wearing a mask could be harmful.
A review by Media Matters found dozens of reuploads of the film in addition to Willis’ original upload on May 4 (including one from a major supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory), resulting in more than 9 million views combined (which includes videos still up and those since taken down). The high view count was achieved despite YouTube continuing to take down reuploads of the video for violating its Community Guidelines. Some of the reuploads have received hundreds of thousands of views on their own....
Much of the video’s YouTube virality is likely thanks to Facebook, where Media Matters’ review also found the videos receiving more than 16 million Facebook engagements (Facebook on May 7 announced that it would ban shares of the film). Some of the uploads of the video have received millions of Facebook engagements on their own. Many of the engagements have come from Facebook groups, including anti-vaxx groups, groups demanding an end to stay-at-home orders, and groups promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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The film has also spread on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.
The videos also received tens of thousands of shares on Twitter (where the platform has blocked some hashtags promoting the film), including from Newsmax host and **coronavirus grifter Wayne Allyn Root**; Darla Shine, the wife of former Fox News executive Bill Shine, who is working on President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign; and some widely followed QAnon accounts.
...The video’s spread is just the latest instance in YouTube’s serious struggle to contain coronavirus misinformation on its platform -- including reuploads -- a problem that continues to be compoundedby its spread on Facebook.
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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/white-house-exempts-bill-shine-ethics-rules-so-he-can-keep-meeting-fox-news
Trump's lead lawyer claims it's in the "public interest" for communications director Bill Shine to be exempted from federal ethics rules, along with National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow.
The Daily Beast reports of Shine:
“The Administration has an interest in you interacting with Covered Organizations such as Fox News,” wrote White House counsel Don McGahn in a July 13 memo granting an ethics waivers to Shine, a former Fox executive. “[T]he need for your services outweighs the concern that a reasonable person may question the integrity of the White House Office’s programs and operations.”
The White House has granted a reported 20 waivers so far.
These waivers are part of a larger pattern that finds this White House emphasizing relationships with news media outlets that are friendly to Trump.
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-wants-hire-former-fox-news-president-new-communications-director
...Shine has been repeatedly implicated in the rampant sexual misconduct at Fox News. He played a similar role inside of Roger Ailes’ Fox News that Michael Cohen played for Donald Trump. As the senior executive vice president at the network, Shine reportedly retaliated against women who reported sexual harassment by then-CEO Roger Ailes and helped participate in covering up the reports that eventually led to Ailes’ ouste\r. Former Fox News reporter Rudi Bakhtiar was reportedly fired from the network following her complaint that Brian Wilson, a former Fox News Washington bureau chief, had “made unwanted sexual advances toward her.” Bakhtiar reported the harassment, which Wilson denied, to Shine through her agent in 2007. Even though Shine reportedly promised to investigate, Bakhtiar was fired and eventually settled with the network for $670,000 through mediation after signing a nondisclosure agreement.
Shine reportedly helped Ailes interact with Laurie Luhn, a former Fox booker who eventually reported Ailes for harassment. Luhn had a nervous breakdown after Ailes “psychologically tortured” her. Shine reportedly checked her into hotels in different cities to keep her from reporting her circumstances and started reviewing her outgoing emails. A spokesperson for Shine told reporter Gabriel Sherman, who is now with Vanity Fair, that Shine denied reviewing the emails.
In July 2016, Sherman described how Shine “played an integral role in the cover-up” of Ailes’ reported misconduct. Sherman said that Shine “pushed women into confidential mediation, signing nondisclosure agreements in exchange for their contracts to be paid.”
The New York Times’ Emily Steel and Michael Schmidt reported in 2017 that Shine refused to intervene when it became clear that then-host Bill O’Reilly would air a segment lecturing women about sexual harassment. While Shine was co-president of Fox News, 21st Century Fox reportedly made multiple payments to women who reported that Bill O’Reilly sexually harassed them.
Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes that also named Shine as being complicit in Ailes harassment and “punishing her for raising the issue.”
Also, Shine is close friends with Sean Hannity, whose now-defunct show Hannity & Colmeshe used to produce. When Shine left Fox News, rumors swirled about whether Hannity would invoke a clause in his contract to leave as well.Shine was also tied a racial discrimination and harassment lawsuit. A group of Black employees at Fox News sued the network for racial discrimination and harassment. The lawsuit explained that Shine "has demonstrated an obsession with race when it comes to discussions with [then-Fox News anchor Kelly] Wright, including regularly asking him, 'how do Black people react to you' and 'how do you think White viewers look at you?'"
This should all sound familiar.
Over 20 women have spoken out about Trump engaging in sexual misconduct, including 12 nonconsensual physical encounters. The media has for the most part repeatedly forgotten about them, even though there is audio of Trump bragging about sexual assault. And oh yeah, Sean Hannity and Fox News led the charge to discredit the women in the first place.
Trump’s racism is obvious, and yet it frequently gets papered over. Right-wing media defend it, mainstream outlets dance around it, and everyone just forgets it ever happened as soon as the next news tsunami hits.
Trump bringing in Fox News people is now just a regular thing. It’s commonplace to see Fox host Jeanine Pirro in the Oval Office one day, and hear about host Lou Dobbs phoning in White House meetings the next. Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth is rumored to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs one week and is being considered for a communications job a few weeks later. Former Fox & Friends anchor Heather Nauert was installed at a top position in the Department of State. Former Fox contributor John Bolton became the national security adviser. Former Fox commentator Mercedes Schlapp is the director of strategic communications at the White House. Former Fox commentator Tony Sayegh is a Treasury Department’s spokesperson. Former Fox commentator Richard Grenell is now ambassador to Germany.So yeah, Bill Shine is a perfect fit for the Trump White House.
There are also those who didn’t make it: former contributor K.T. McFarland resigned as deputy national security adviser and later withdrew her nomination to become ambassador to Singapore due to controversy over work for disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn; and contributor Monica Crowley was never hired after it was reported that she plagiarized parts of her Ph.D. dissertation. And there’ve been rumors at various times that Trump is considering hiring Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.
Fox News has spent its entire existence as the mouthpiece of a revanchist, faux-populist oligarchy. Thanks to Donald Trump, that infrastructure is now in the White House.
It took decades and a number of brave women and men speaking out to reveal the full scale of the horrors of Roger Ailes and Bill Shine’s Fox News.
One wonders what we will find in the future about Trump’s White House
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https://www.alternet.org/trump-mulls-hiring-former-fox-news-executive-who-covered-sexual-harassment-gets-bill-oreilly-stamp
...uring the Trump administration, the position was also held by Sean Spicer twice, Mike Dubke and for ten days, by Anthony Scaramucci.
SCOOP: Former @FoxNews co-president Bill Shine is in final talks with @realDonaldTrump about becoming @WhiteHouseCommunications Director. Announcement could be soon.
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) June 27, 2018
The move was confirmed by The New York Times, which reported, “the move has not been finalized, but two people familiar with the decision said it was likely to be announced and that the president had offered him the job.”
Shine left Fox News in May of 2017 after women at the network reportedly circulated a petition demanding he be fired.
Shine reportedly told a female executive that the network’s pattern of sexual harassment was a “necessary evil.”
“Officials at the White House are aware that they will face blowback for appointing someone so closely tied to Mr. Ailes and the culture of harassment toward women at Fox News,” The Timesnoted. “But they said Wednesday that they believe they can weather it.”It was also reported at the time that Shine had attempted to have a female executive institutionalized against her will at a psychiatric hospital to prevent her going public with about sexual harassment by former Fox News boss Roger Ailes.
According to The Times, Kellyanne Conway declined the position and Mercedes Schlapp was not offered the job.
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