1. Mercola has built a vast operation to disseminate anti-vaccination and natural health content and to profit from it, according to researchers.
He employs teams of people in places like Florida and the Philippines, who swing into action when news moments touch on health issues, rapidly publishing blog posts and translating them into nearly a dozen languages, then pushing them to a network of websites and to social media.
An analysis by The New York Times found that he had published more than 600 articles on Facebook that cast doubt on COVID-19 vaccines since the pandemic began, reaching a far larger audience than other vaccine skeptics.
Mercola criticized the Times’ reporting in his post Wednesday, saying it was “loaded with false facts.”
