Berenson’s Substack newsletters over the last month have mostly been more of the same: He rails against “woke media whoppers about Covid vaccines” and describes Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman as a “fat vaccinated cannabis activist.”īut earlier this week, Berenson took aim at a new target: the growing global outbreak of the monkeypox virus.
Before Twitter kicked him off the platform for spreading vaccine disinformation last year, he had hundreds of thousands of followers. One of Berenson’s favorite themes has been to downplay the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines-and it’s this work in particular that has made him a star. In his Substack newsletter “ Unreported Truths” he rails against Joe Biden, derides the pro-choice movement, and complains about inflation to his “tens of thousands of subscribers.” But over the last several years, he’s increasingly focused on a new pet project: owning the libs. Once upon a time, Alex Berenson was a New York Times journalist covering major stories, from the Iraq War to Hurricane Katrina to the Bernie Madoff scandal. Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.
