#Mirko drotschmann

[skywalkerbootleg]

THIS is the love of my life don't ask why

[ketacontrol]

Klassische Antidepressiva wirken bei vielen Patienten nicht. Eine neue Therapie mit der "Partydroge" Ketamin schenkt Hoffnung. Kann eine Droge bei Depressionen helfen?

In der Terra-X-Kolumne auf ZDFheute beschäftigen sich ZDF-Wissenschaftsjournalistinnen und -journalisten wie Harald Lesch, Mirko Drotschmann und Jasmina Neudecker sowie Gastexpert*innen jeden Sonntag mit großen Fragen der Wissenschaft - und welche Antworten die Forschung auf die Herausforderungen unserer Zeit bietet.

[itsyveinthesky]

Def noting suspicious to see here.

[tomorrowusa]

Anti-vaxxers of dubious origin apparently are trying to bribe YouTube influencers to spread disinformation about vaccinations. To their enduring credit, the YouTubers exposed the plot instead of taking the money.

You’ll never guess which country may have been behind this attempt to keep the pandemic going.  /sarcasm

An influencer marketing agency called Fazze offered to pay him to promote what it said was leaked information that suggested the death rate among people who had the Pfizer vaccine was almost three times that of the AstraZeneca jab.

The information provided wasn't true.

[ ... ]

Fazze is a part of AdNow, which is a digital marketing company, registered in both Russia and the UK.

The BBC has made multiple attempts to contact AdNow by phone, email and even a letter couriered to their Moscow headquarters, but they have not responded.

Eventually we managed to contact Ewan Tolladay, one of two directors of the British arm of AdNow - who lives in Durham.

Mr Tolladay said he had very little to do with Fazze - which he said was a joint venture between his fellow director - a Russian man called Stanislav Fesenko - and another person whose identity he didn't know.

He said that he hadn't been a part of the disinformation campaign. He said he hadn't even known Fazze had taken on the contract before the story broke. He couldn't enlighten us on who the mystery client was.

He said that in light of the scandal  "we are doing the responsible thing and shutting down AdNow here in the UK". He said Fazze was also being shut down.

We have tried to get Mr Fesenko to talk to us but had no success.

^^^ emphasis added

Yep, this is possibly another attempt by Putin’s Russia to destabilize the West. And it is a particularly clumsy and counterproductive attempt because viruses do not observe international borders. If future vaccine-resistant variants develop because a lot of people remain unvaccinated, those variants will inevitably spread to Russia – even to Putin’s Palace.

At the very least, this was an effort to undermine the Pfizer vaccine in order to make the less effective Russian-made Sputnik vaccine look good.

So MERCI! to French YouTuber Léo Grasset and DANKE! to German YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann for refusing the tainted money and exposing the plot. They probably saved lives and kept people from becoming seriously ill. 

If you are aware of any influencers who have been getting offers to spread disinformation in exchange for cash, you might wish to contact Charlie Haynes and Flora Carmichael at the BBC who posted that news story.

EDIT: RFE/RL was on this story in late May. They detail more of the Russian connections.

Exclusive: Meet The Murky Russian Network Behind An Anti-Pfizer Disinformation Drive In Europe

[btrandkittens]

a few of my favorite dudes:

Luke Hudson

Riley Murdock

Luke Lafreniere

Felix Kjellberg (aka PewDiePie)

Mirko Drotschmann

James Strieb

😻😻😻

[karometeenk]

my german history teacher keeps showing us youtube videos from the same guy, she always refers to him as “unser freund” and i think i’m falling in love with him

[bauerntanz]

Fazze gegen Biontech

Über die Desinformationskampagne der von #Russland aus agierenden, Lo#doner Firma Fazze. Das Ziel: Der Impfstoff von #Biontech/Pfizer. Eine Recherche von @netzpolitik und @ARDKontraste

Die Woche beginnt, aber nehmt Euch bitte ein paar Augenblicke für diesen @netzpolitk-Text: Eine Londoner Agentur bietet nämlich Influencer:innen auf der ganzen Welt Geld an, damit sie falsche Behauptungen über den Impfstoff von Biontech/Pfizer verbreiten. Mehrere beißen an und veröffentlichen Videos. Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und dem ARD-Magazin Kontraste zeigen: Hinter der Kampagne steckt…

[sidqin-h2]

re:publica 22

Die Exkursion zu re:publica 22 in Berlin war sehr interessant. Dort gab es viele Stände, wo man hinging und etwas sehen konnte. Viele Vorträge waren sehr wichtig für mich, wie ich z.B. in Social-Media etwas verbessern kann. Mirko Drotschmann von Wissen2Go war auch dabei und hat einen guten Vortrag mit anderen bekannten Gästen gemacht. Da ich auf Tiktok aktiv bin, habe ich auch den Vortrag von Tageschau besucht. Dort wurden gezeigt, wie Tageschau Videos dreht, wie sie alles geplant haben, wie Videos bearbeitet werden und viele wichtige Dinge.

[korrektheiten]

Bei Illner sinniert man: Was wenn „Diktaturen und Autokratien“ Klimaschutz besser können?

Tichy:Illner gibt ihr Studio für die Jugend frei. Allerdings wohl eher einer Jugend für Alte. Dass Mirko Drotschmann vom ZDF (stolze 35 Jahre alt) und Christoph Ploß, der Landesvorsitzende der CDU Hamburg (36 Jahre alt) noch mit zur Jugend gezählt werden, kann meiner Meinung nur daran liegen, dass sie vielleicht im Herzen jung geblieben sind. Der Beitrag Bei Illner sinniert man: Was wenn „Diktaturen und Autokratien“ Klimaschutz besser können? erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick. http://dlvr.it/S7kntN

[toscanoirriverente]

Una misteriosa agenzia di marketing ha offerto denaro a influencer tedeschi e francesi per diffondere fake news su Pfizer. E gli indizi, in questi casi come in altri, portano alla Russia

(...) Lo youtuber e divulgatore scientifico francese Leo Grasset ha rivelato su Twitter a metà maggio di avere ricevuto una strana proposta. Un’agenzia di marketing gli aveva offerto una cifra ragguardevole per pubblicare un video a tema, con una consegna ben precisa: mostrare, numeri alla mano, l’aumento della mortalità fra le persone che avevano ricevuto il vaccino di Pfizer in Francia.Nello stesso periodo, l’influencer scientifico tedesco Mirko Drotschmann riceve un’email con un’offerta analoga a quella di Grasset. La stessa agenzia di influencer marketing (si chiama Fazze) gli chiede di pubblicare un video sul suo canale da quasi 1,5 milioni di follower in cui si dimostra la pericolosità del vaccino Pfizer rispetto a quello di AstraZeneca.Il brief dell’agenzia sembra uscito da un manuale sulla disinformazione mirata: l’agenzia chiede di partire da un articolo uscito su Le Monde avente per oggetto l’hackeraggio dei server dell’Ema, l’Agenzia europea per i Medicinali, e di collegare il fatto (realmente accaduto) a una tabella con i dati sulla mortalità dei pazienti ottenuti da fonti diverse, presi fuori contesto, e aggregati ad arte per dimostrare la pericolosità del vaccino Pfizer. Lo scopo, fin troppo ovvio, è suggerire un collegamento fra il furto di dati e quella tabella.Non appena Drotschmann e Grasset svelano l’offerta di Fazze, gli articoli segnalati dall’agenzia ai due youtuber spariscono dal Web. Solo quello di Le Monde, usato come involontaria testa di ponte, rimane consultabile online. Nel frattempo altri 4 influencer tra Francia e Germania seguono l’esempio dei colleghi e rivelano pubblicamente di avere ricevuto la stessa proposta.

[cpandf]

FEATURED: #Coronavirus Report: A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about #COVID19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them according to BBC News #AceNewsDesk report | Ace News Services

FEATURED: #Coronavirus Report: A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about #COVID19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them according to BBC News #AceNewsDesk report | Ace News Services

Mirko Drotschmann was offered money to spread disinformation on his social media accounts“It started with an email” says Mirko Drotschmann, a German YouTuber and journalist.Mirko normally ignores offers from brands asking him to advertise their products to his more than 1.5 million subscribers. But the sponsorship offer he received in May this year was unlike any other.An influencer marketing…

[decentralvaccine]

Influencers Paid To Spread Disinformation About The Pfizer Vaccine

The mysterious London public relations agency sent its pitch simultaneously to social media influencers in France and Germany: Claim that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is deadly and that regulators and the mainstream media are covering it up, the message read, and earn thousands of euros in easy money in exchange.

The claim is false. The purported agency, Fazze, has a website and describes itself as an “influencer marketing platform” connecting bloggers and advertisers. But when some of the influencers tried to find out who was running Fazze, the ephemeral trail appeared to lead to Russia.

“Unbelievable. The address of the London agency that contacted me is bogus,” Léo Grasset, a popular French health and science YouTuber with more than one million followers, wrote on Twitter Monday. “All the employees have weird LinkedIn profiles … which have been missing since this morning. Everyone has worked in Russia before.”

Mirko Drotschmann, a German health commentator with 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, said in a tweet that the P.R. agency had asked if he wanted to be part of an “information campaign” about Pfizer deaths in exchange for money. After doing some research, he concluded: “Agency headquarters: London. Residence of the CEO: Moscow.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/pfizer-vaccine-disinformation-influeners.html

[orbemnews]

Influencers Say They Were Urged to Criticize Pfizer Vaccine PARIS — The mysterious London public relations agency sent its pitch simultaneously to social media influencers in France and Germany: Claim that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is deadly and that regulators and the mainstream media are covering it up, the message read, and earn thousands of euros in easy money in exchange. The claim is false. The purported agency, Fazze, has a website and describes itself as an “influencer marketing platform” connecting bloggers and advertisers. But when some of the influencers tried to find out who was running Fazze, the ephemeral trail appeared to lead to Russia. “Unbelievable. The address of the London agency that contacted me is bogus,” Léo Grasset, a popular French health and science YouTuber with more than one million followers, wrote on Twitter Monday. “All the employees have weird LinkedIn profiles … which have been missing since this morning. Everyone has worked in Russia before.” Mirko Drotschmann, a German health commentator with 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, said in a tweet that the P.R. agency had asked if he wanted to be part of an “information campaign” about Pfizer deaths in exchange for money. After doing some research, he concluded: “Agency headquarters: London. Residence of the CEO: Moscow.” Their responses prompted two other social media influencers to come forward and say they, too, were approached last week with the offer of a “partnership” to criticize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. One was offered 2,000 euros. It’s uncertain how many influencers received the solicitations, or if any acted on them. And it’s not at all clear that there ever was a Fazze agency. Within hours of the questions on social media, the employee profiles on the agency’s LinkedIn account had disappeared, and someone scrubbed its Facebook page blank. Its Instagram account was made private. Its website offers no way to contact the company. The French health minister, Olivier Véran, denounced the operation on Tuesday, calling it “pathetic and dangerous.” He did not elaborate on whether the government was investigating the matter. While France is trying to speed efforts to achieve so-called herd immunity from Covid-19 before summer with faster vaccine rollouts, it remains one of Europe’s largest vaccine-sceptic countries, with nearly a third of its people saying they don’t want a jab. Since spring, many residents have refused to take the AstraZeneca vaccine after reports that it may cause blood clots, prompting the government to switch largely to Pfizer, which more people have been willing to accept. About 15 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. President Emmanuel Macron last week reopened restaurants, stores and other parts of the economy that had been more or less shuttered since November. He is betting that widespread immunization will be key to keeping the economy up and running, while luring tourists back after a devastating pandemic-induced recession. Any further outbreaks could lead to a reclosing of parts of the economy, his government has warned. The messages from the so-called Fazze agency, in broken English, urged the social media influencers to create posts and videos on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram to “explain” that “the death rate among the vaccinated with Pfizer is almost 3x higher than the vaccinated by AstraZeneca.” In Mr. Grasset’s case, a message from a person who identified himself as Anton boasted that the agency had a “quite considerable” budget for an “information campaign” about “Covid-19 and the vaccines offered to the European population, notably AstraZeneca and Pfizer.” Mr. Grasset, who posted screenshots of the messages he received, said Anton had been willing to pay for 45- to 60-second videos on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube warning that the Pfizer vaccine was deadly. Anton also asked him to “act like you have the passion and interest in this topic,” while avoiding the terms “advertising” and “sponsored” in posts. “The material should be presented as your own independent view,” the pitch said. “Encourage viewers to draw their own conclusions, take care of themselves and their loved ones,” the instructions continued. The influencers described being urged to question why governments were buying the Pfizer vaccine, and to portray the European Union, which signed a deal last month for 1.8 billion doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, as a monopoly that was causing harm to public health. They were also asked to tell their followers that “the mainstream media ignores this theme.” Before the coronavirus broke out, Russian trolls were already using vaccine debates to sow discord, according to a 2018 study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Twitter accounts that Russian agents used to meddle in the 2016 presidential election also sent both pro- and anti-vaccine messages and insulted parents. In April, a European Union report said Russian and Chinese media were systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western Covid-19 vaccines in disinformation campaigns aimed at the West. Source link Orbem News #Criticize #Influencers #Pfizer #Urged #Vaccine

[btrandkittens]