FRENCH MINISTER SLAMS RUSSIAN SMEAR JOB VS PFIZER VACCINE

France’s health minister has blasted as “dangerous, irresponsible and pathetic” an attempt by a mysterious “UK-based” PR agency asking influencers and YouTube personalities to publicly denigrate the Pfizer vaccine in exchange for money, Henry Samuel reported for The Telegraph.

Targets of the campaign, who are active in the health and science fields, said they had received an email offer by the agency of "a partnership" on behalf of a customer with "a colossal budget" but who wanted to remain anonymous and also to keep any deal secret.

"Strange. I've received a partnership proposal which consists of slamming the Pfizer vaccine in a video," tweeted Leo Grasset, whose popular science channel has nearly 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube.

"Colossal budget, client wants to remain incognito, and I'd have to hide the sponsorship." He added: "Incredible. The address of the London agency that contacted me is fake. They never had a presence there, it's a laser surgery center. All staff have weird LinkedIn profiles."

The profiles later disappeared, but not before he noticed that "everybody there has worked in Russia.” A popular doctor, Jérémie, alias Docteur JFK on TikTok, told France Info: “I had to say that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine caused three times as many deaths as AstraZeneca (the Anglo-Swedish vaccine).”

Those approached were reportedly offered €2,000 if they obliged. When asked about the curious smear attempt, French health minister Olivier Véran said: "This is pathetic, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible and it's not going to work.”

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