Some information spread organically by useful idiots. But in today's capitalistic world spread of any information can be bought.
Earlier this week BBC informed about cases when popular YouTubers were supposedly approached by an agency to spread dubious information about vaccines.
I can't verify the story and I have no more information about the topic than the influencers, so I can't answer the question in the title of the article. But I love the irony of the information influencers were asked to share:
The story was genuine, but didn't include anything about vaccine deaths.
But in this context it would give the false impression that the death rate statistics had come from the leak. The data the influencers were asked to share had actually been cobbled together from different sources and taken out of context. It presented the numbers of people who had died in several countries some time after receiving different Covid vaccines.
But just because someone dies after having a vaccine doesn't mean they died because they had the vaccine. They could have been killed in a car accident.
Remember early 2020 when people claimed that "even those died in a car crash were reported as covid deaths"?
I certainly do remember. And the irony is just priceless.