Thu Jan 20, 2022 – 5:58 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A prominent mainstream medical journal is once again standing up to Facebook for its policing of so-called COVID-19 “misinformation,” specifically calling out the lack of oversight and accountability subjected to the social giant’s top “fact-checking” partner, Lead Stories.
Last month, the British Medical Journal excoriated Facebook’s fact-checkers as “inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible” for flagging a BMJ report exposing severe data integrity issues with a clinical trial for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine conducted by Ventavia Research Group.
The report alleged that the company “falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial,” and that “despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA [US Food & Drug Administration] did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.”
Despite the report being based on “dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails,” Lead Stories declared BMJ’s scoop to be “misleading” and claimed the whistleblower, fired Ventavia regional director Brook Jackson, lacked credibility.
BMJ responded in detail to Lead Stories’ claims at the time, and on Wednesday published a follow-up report
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Christian Journal or its editors