A Canadian Province Released a COVID Report Full of Pseudoscience. Who Wrote It, and Why?
Alberta’s government released a controversial report calling for COVID vaccine restrictions and regulatory rollbacks. Experts, including the Canadian Medical Association, condemned the document as misinformation. This investigation dug into who was behind it, revealing a number of vaccine skeptics and President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, health economist Jay Bhattacharya.
Chinese Dissident Secretly Recruited Right-Wing Writers to Publish Flattering Articles
Important Context got inside the network of exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. We exposed how operatives working for Guo recruited prominent Republican voices, including Donald Trump’s now-press secretary Karoline Leavitt, to write and/or sign their name to opinion pieces praising his various business ventures and painting him as a persecuted dissident—an image that was central to a $1 billion fraud scheme he was convicted in connection with in July 2024.