Mysterious marketing firm ‘secretly offered to pay YouTubers to spread lies about Covid-19 vaccines’

"If you don't have any scientific training, you could just say, 'oh, there are these numbers, they are really different. So there must be a link.' But you can make any spurious correlation as you want really," Léo says of the brief.

Alongside this, the content creators were also asked to link to questionable articles which all used the same set of figures to paint the Pfizer vaccine as dangerous. But when When Léo and Mirko exposed the Fazze campaign on Twitter, all the articles, except the Le Monde story, vanished from the internet. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pQTX2oPn7/ Since the two blew the top off the campaign, four other European influencers have come forward to say they also rejected Fazze's request. However, German journalist, Daniel Laufer, thinks two influencers, in particular, have accepted the offer. Ashkar Techy and Everson Zoio have never covered politics, social issues, or even the pandemic. However, Laufer has since identified that they are now covering a set of similar data. Both Laufer and the BBC attempted to contact the influencers, but neither responded and they removed their videos relating to the data set. The BBC discovered that Fazze's parent company Adnow is registered in both the UK and Russia. Despite attempting to contact their head office in Moscow, they could not get through to a representative. Eventually, they were able to contact one of two directors, Ewan Tolladay. Tolladay said he had very little to do with Fazze, and that his colleague Stanislav Fesenko and an unknown third party oversaw that section of the business. https://www.instagram.com/p/CP7mznCsoh2/