DISINFO: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is not safe

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

DISINFO: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is not safe

SUMMARY

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus is based on mRNA technology which is new and not well tested. Although many Western media present the vaccine as a breakthrough in the fight against the pandemic, more deaths have occurred to people who received this specific vaccine than others and this fact is hidden.

RESPONSE

This is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign aiming to discredit Western vaccines.

It has been already documented how pro-Kremlin media have been consistently trying to discredit especially the Prizer/BioNTech vaccine. One of the main features of this discrediting strategy is to create a causal link between the new mRNA technology and deaths among people having received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

See other examples in our database, such as claims that the West is waging a war against Sputnik V and Russian vaccines; that Pfizer directors sold their shares alarmed over vaccine’s deaths; that 29 people died in Norway after receiving the Pfizer vaccine; that the Moderna vaccine shouldn’t be trusted because nothing is known about the company; that the US vaccine genetically modifies humans; that the WHO and Microsoft sabotaged the Russian vaccine; or that the West criticises the Sputnik V because it can’t accept Russia’s primacy, and because its pharmaceutical companies will lose billions of dollars.

For an overview of the pro-Kremlin disinformation regarding Covid-19 vaccines see also here.

Disclaimer

Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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