A screaming headline and article accusing a deceased Olympic gold medalist who died of COVID of being an “anti-vaxxer” has won the U.K.-based Independent news agency a dubious “award” for its biased reporting and fake-news headline.
Gold medalist Szilveszter Csollany, 51, died of COVID. The Independent claims he was “anti-vax,” but he actually had taken the COVID shot in order to keep his coaching job. They didn’t say that until a few paragraphs in to their story. Instead, they misleadingly spread disinformation with a headline that other agencies, for example, the Mirror, quickly picked up and copied.
“To bury that in the body, under THAT headline, is deliberate deception,” ZeroHedge points out. “They know many people will read the title and assume he hadn’t had the vaccine without ever reading the body of the text, and they are relying on that to spread an intentionally false impression. The very definition of disinformation.”
As far as his “anti” vax views go, the Mirror reported that one of Csollany’s last Facebook posts said, "I just want to understand! I'm not against or in favour of vaccine.... really don't know what's good ... Having admitted he WAS vaccinated, and only a short time before he died, the article never considers even for a second the obvious logical conclusion: That the vaccine may have played some part in his death, or killed him outright.”
Csollany took the one-shot Janssen COVID jab. He later was admitted to a hospital with COVID symptoms and put on a ventilator. He died January 24, 2022.
SOURCES:
ZeroHedge January 29, 2022
Independent January 24, 2022
Mirror January 26, 2022