From the article (bold added):

Meet Imran Ahmed. He runs an organisation called the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which is devoted to complaining that there are people on the internet who have different opinions about things than he does.

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Everything suggests Ahmed started out as an anti-racism campaigner, before Corona fried his brain. Now his main thing is screeching about vaccines. This has precious little to do with hate, so Ahmed has made a late-stage course correction and decided that his Center for Countering Digital Hate is also a Center for Countering “misinformation.”

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Elsewhere, in a section entitled Our People, where you might expect to see CCDH staff photos and biographies, you instead find – and I swear this is real – nothing but eight different photos of Ahmed himself

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Ahmed’s latest talking point is that there is an “Anti-Vaxx Industry,” which consists of a few people who think for themselves and notice things on the internet, sometimes in return for donations

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It is, however, the vaccinators of the world who are making all of the money here. The putative revenues which Ahmed assigns to the “Anti-Vaxx Industry” amount to less than 0.23% of the 2021 earnings of BioNTech. And... would it not be fair to say that Ahmed is himself part of some kind of progressive advocacy industry? That big red “Donate” button plastered all over his website takes you directly to a page that solicits one-time or monthly donations in suggested amounts ranging from $25 to $250 dollars.

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The Ahmeds of the world could very easily put the “Anti-Vaxx Industry” out of business. Instead of having a sad on the internet, establishment media outlets could simply publish a wider range of opinion. The last two years have seen unprecedented disruptions to civilian life, the crash development and heedless promotion of experimental new pharmaceuticals, and their heavy-handed, coercive imposition upon millions who don’t want them. It is totally reasonable to have a problem with what is happening here, and a lot of people would feel better about their scientists, their governments, and their media, if they abandoned their relentless, dishonest and condescending messaging campaigns and started treating their citizens like adults who are entitled to informed consent.

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And this is isn’t just about Corona, or the vaccines. Go look at the major blogs on Substack. Most of them provide content and opinions that are excluded from the press — not because this content is weird or arcane or unpopular, but because the press has decided that their real job is opinion manipulation. I’m not going to get rich off of Substack, but it’s entirely down to their insistence on lying to everybody all the time that somebody like me can gather enough followers to have a hope of doing this full-time.

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Ahmed is also very worked up about the sanctity and inviolability of expert opinion, and here too I have advice. If the virologists and the epidemiologists and the immunologists don’t want their theories and research to be matters of public discussion, they need to stop interfering in public life. Once virological and epidemiolgoical and immunological theses become the basis of nationwide house arrests and medical coercion, the public acquires a direct interest in these theses. They are no longer matters for a closed, abstruse gaggle of shadowy experts. Don’t like that? Then stop advising governments on lockdowns and vaccination policy, and public interest in antibodies, t-cells, aerosolised transmission, masks, and vaccine efficacy will evaporate. These people are free, at literally any moment, to end most public discussions over vaccination