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A viral undercover interview has focused attention on the process that Pfizer Inc uses to update its COVID-19 vaccines. The video of the interview, ...

"The Pfizer Director...is caught on video discussing mutating the virus to change the vaccines & how Covid is a cash cow!" On Thursday, Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, posted on Twitter: "Federal health agencies have been captured by Big Pharma and grossly derelict in their duties throughout the pandemic. "I'm sure the committee to investigate Covid will have questions on this!!" We then make this data available through peer reviewed scientific journals and use it as one of the steps to determine whether a vaccine update is required." He then made a call to the NYPD and is seen in a scuffle with the Project Veritas camera crew in an attempt to stop their recordings. "Why are you doing this to someone who's just working at a company to literally help the public?" "This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities. Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern. If we're going to do that, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f------ viruses," the 5-minute, 31-second video shows Walker saying to the reporter at a New York City restaurant. "You work for Pfizer," O'Keefe says, sitting down at a table across from Walker. "One of the things we're exploring is like, why don't we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? Walker said later that he believed he was on a date with the person who interviewed him.

A Project Veritas video claimed that it featured someone named “Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development - Strategic Operations ...

There’s certainly no evidence of a “a near-total media blackout of this story,” unless by “a near-total blackout” you mean “no real blackout.” Journalists don’t tend to take anything that rings of censorship lightly. Can you say for sure that this Project Veritas video is fake or staged and that “Jordon Trishton Walker” is actually a crisis actor and that Triston doesn’t really have the softest hair in the world? This was around the same time that legitimate media outlets had quickly reported on a possible “safety signal” for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 bivalent booster vaccine as soon as verifiable sources had identified this possibility, [which I also covered for Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/01/14/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-bivalent-vaccine-and-strokes-what-you-need-to-know/?sh=98f54b650103). Claiming that this was video showed “a Pfizer executive bragging about how his company conducts Frankenstein science, manipulating COVID viruses for profit, and does it in secret, possibly in violation of federal law” seems to be quite a leap. Then there was the [November 29, 2017, article for The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/29/project-veritas-how-fake-news-prize-went-to-rightwing-group-beloved-by-trump) with the headline, “Project Veritas: how fake news prize went to rightwing group beloved by Trump” and the subheading, “James O’Keefe’s organisation specialising in media stings received donations from Trump’s foundation but was caught red-handed peddling a false story.” In the article, Ed Pilkington described Project Veritas as “a discredited rightwing attack organization run by James O’Keefe that specializes in sting operations against liberal groups and the established media.” Does that sound like a credible news source? You have to say things like, “Aside from being sexy, what do you do for a living” and “Do you like raisins? So, the government uses your tax dollars to buy billions worth of their products and then in some cases forces you to use those products.” While it’s not clear where pharmaceutical companies rank in terms of lobbying money versus other interests and industries such as coal and oil, you can’t deny that a lot lobbying has been happening. So, Pfizer ultimately is thinking about mutating Covid?” To this the alleged Walker person responded, “Well that is not what we say to the public, no. That's why it was, it was a thought that came up in a meeting and we were like: 'Why do we not?'” And elsewhere in the video, the interviewer queried, “So, I mean, when is Pfizer going to implement the mutation of all these viruses?” This prompted the following reply from the this-is-supposed-to-be-Walker person: "I don't know, it depends on how the experiments work out because this is just like, something we're trying, right?" The video appeared to be an undercover video because the footage was rather grainy and filmed at a rather awkward angle. Now, to be fair, Carlson is not necessarily always “scrunch-faced.” He has also sported the “I’m concerned”, the “Whatcha talkin bout, Willis”, and the “I really have to go to the bathroom” facial expressions. But is there any truth to what Carlson has been claiming about this Project Veritas video or is it actually a hot air baboon situation?

American drugmaker Pfizer said on Friday they have not conducted gain-of-function or directed evolution research during their COVID-19 research, after a viral ...

Note that the text in the picture was added by the video creator, not CGTN Digital. A person appeared in a video posted by Project Veritas holding a tablet computer. A person appeared in a video posted by Project Veritas telling another person to keep a secret. The variants, and sub-variants like Omicron, XBB.1.5, have brought difficulties to human's effort of controlling the disease, as they can escape immunity from vaccines. Funded mainly by donors, Project Veritas has described itself as a "journalism enterprise" that does investigative reporting to achieve "a more ethical and transparent society." It has also been described by many as a far-right activist group.