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The Daily Mail took down a digital article last week that promoted Project Veritas’ latest sting operation alleging that a Pifizer executive admitted the pharmaceutical giant was making a “more potent” version of COVID in order to create new vaccines for sale.
Following days of anti-vaxxers and right-wing media outlets complaining about the article’s deletion, and hours after The Daily Beast reached out to the British tabloid, the piece was back online—and was completely changed.
Senior reporter Andrea Cavallier, the article’s original author, was originally removed from the byline but has since reappeared. The updated article, which came back online Monday afternoon, now largely focuses on Pfizer’s response to Project Veritas’ video and the far-right activist group’s suggestion that the company is practicing “gain-of-function” research. In addition to Cavallier, the byline now features health editor Connor Boyd and health reporter Caitlin Tilley.