Covid-19 roundup: French in­flu­encers tar­get­ed in mis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign against Pfiz­er; As­traZeneca and the EU le­gal case be­gins

French so­cial me­dia per­son­al­i­ties, of­fi­cials and me­dia com­pa­nies have al­leged that a group dis­guis­ing it­self as a British com­mu­ni­ca­tions agency has tried to dis­cred­it the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech Covid-19 vac­cine in a cam­paign that’s of­fered pay­ment for post­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion.

Reuters, The Wall Street Jour­nal and The Hill have all re­port­ed that the ef­fort seems to fall in line with an April re­port from the EU that said Russ­ian and Chi­nese me­dia out­lets were try­ing to gen­er­ate mis­trust in west­ern Covid-19 vac­cines, a move that the health min­is­ter Olivi­er Véran de­scribed as dan­ger­ous and ir­re­spon­si­ble.

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