“Proponents of a dubious COVID-19 cure have signaled they’re ready for a long fight against what they see as censorship in medicine and media.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d5gv/ivermectin-covid-treatment-advocates-rogan-weinstein-hecker

 

“A large part of the major mass media have made a decision that they’ll only allow discussion on what’s determined to be correct and efficacious by the WHO and the NIH,” he said. That decision seemed be linked, he implied, to the Trusted News Initiative, an project begun in 2019 involving a group of news organizations trying to agree on new standards and technologies to combat disinformation, most recently around elections and vaccines, and to provide continuing education resources to help journalists learn how to identify things like manipulated images.

“We’re trying to learn more about it, who started it, and how well-enforced it is,” Kory said, ominously. (The Trusted News Initiative was created by the BBC; as of December 2020, as is easily findable online, other partner organizations included the Associated Press, Agence France Presse, CBC/Radio-Canada, the European Broadcasting Union, the Financial Times, First Draft, The Hindu, Microsoft, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the Washington Post.) Kory appeared to be taking his talking points, however, from a conspiratorial article on the website Trial Site News, which employed the heavy use of scare quotes to imply that the TNI is a global force for censorship. “