COVID AND THE VACCINE - TRUTH, LIES, AND MISCONCEPTIONS REVEALED, page-1240

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    Lifesite just another discredited anti vac site that continue with their COVID misinformation.

    LifeSiteNews

    Campaign Life Coalition founded LifeSiteNews in 1997. The website was founded with the intent to promote anti-abortion views.[12]

    According to the fact-checking website Snopes.com, LifeSiteNews is "a known purveyor of misleading information."[13] The Associated Press described the website as "ultraconservative."[14] In May 2019, Philip Pullela, in a Reuters article, wrote that the website "often is a platform for attacks on [Pope Francis]."[15] The LGBT magazine The Advocate has described LifeSiteNews as an anti-LGBT outlet, and criticised it for articles blaming clerical sex abuse, including that of children, on homosexuality.[16] Research has shown no evidence that sexual orientation affects the likelihood of a person's abusing children.[17][18]

    The Canadian Anti-Hate Network described LifeSiteNews as "like a Christian version of Breitbart", that "screeds and far-right conspiracy theories about the rigged election, 'leftist agitators' in the crowd at the Capitol, and COVID-19 being a bioweapon", "warning about 'homosexuals on the prowl' in the US military to a conspiracy-minded archbishop telling Steve Bannon that 'Trump is fighting pedosatanism'". It describes how a previously predominantly anti-LGBT website gradually radicalized to other far-right views, great replacement conspiracy theory, antisemitism, Islamophobia, white nationalism, apocalypticism, Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, deep state conspiracy theory, New World Order conspiracy theory, Great Reset conspiracy theory and calls to establish a "Christian Civilization". CAHN also denounced baseless associations made between Nazism and homosexuality by the site and its attempts to equate the criticism of its flawed and discriminatory statements to censorship and discrimination. Catholic scholar Lafferty described LifeSiteNews's current stance as "Pepe Catholicism".[19]

    A Catholic priest, Raymond Gravel, filed a lawsuit in Quebec against the website in 2011 for defamation.[20][21] Subsequently, Gravel died of lung cancer on August 11, 2014.[22] In 2013, the lawsuit was allowed to advance to trial by a Quebec court.[23]

    LifeSiteNews Media's YouTube channel was banned in 2021 for persistently promoting COVID-19 misinformation. For instance, one video claimed that it was "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public". Another promoted anti-vaccine sentiment claiming that fetal cells from new abortions are used to produce them when currently available vaccines were not produced using stem cells. Doubts about the efficacy of vaccines were also pushed and the gravity of the virus minimized. These claims contradict the scientific consensus and reports from authorities like the World Health Organization, violating YouTube policies in relation to the promotion of health misinformation.[24]


 
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