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Big Pharma's Social Media Blitz to Shape Vaccine Policy


๐Ÿงต The TL;DR

Big Pharma launched a massive lobbying blitz to monopolize covid-related medicine, including direct pressure on social media to censor activists who called for generic low cost vaccines. A content moderation campaign funded by BIO was created on Twitter to set rules around covid misinformation that did not apply to drug companies.


    ๐Ÿ”‘ Key Points

  • Pharmaceutical industry pushed for copyright monopoly on Covid-19 related medicine
  • Direct pressure on social media from Pfizer partner BioNTech to censor activists
  • Content moderation campaign funded by BIO on Twitter to set rules around Covid misinformation

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