Robert Malone on media: what the evidence says · JRE #1757

FACT CHECK // JRE #1757 // EXHIBIT LOG
EPISODE AIRED DEC 1, 2021 · THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
CLAIM CMRCORWISTATUS: PUBLISHED
SUBJECT: MEDIA
Timestamp1:13:30
Aired
RulingNeeds Context

Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.

// THE CLAIM · ON TAPE
But Thomson Reuters is tied to Pfizer. They have common corporate ownership and they are the fact checker of Twitter now
Robert Malone@ 1:13:30
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What the evidence says 01 / RECORD

Thomson Reuters Corporation and Pfizer Inc. are separately incorporated, independently traded public companies. Neither owns a controlling stake in the other, and there is no parent-subsidiary or common-ownership relationship between them, so the claim of 'common corporate ownership' is false. What is documented is a board interlock: Pfizer's 2018 SEC proxy statement (DEF 14A) lists James C. Smith, President and CEO of Thomson Reuters Corporation, as a Pfizer director since 2014. That is a real, disclosed conflict-of-interest consideration, but it is a single shared board seat, not shared ownership or control, and it does not establish that Pfizer directs or controls Thomson Reuters' fact-checking operations, including any work Reuters has done for Twitter/X. The claim conflates a board interlock with corporate ownership and overstates the resulting control; the overall framing is best characterized as false and misleading.

Evidence sources 03 / EXHIBITS

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