{"id":259943,"date":"2022-10-16T07:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T07:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259943"},"modified":"2022-10-17T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T07:02:23","slug":"pop-star-dropped-from-gq-awards-after-vaccine-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259943","title":{"rendered":"Pop star dropped from GQ awards after vaccine tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Oct 15, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Pop singer M.I.A. has been dropped from GQ magazine\u2019s upcoming \u2018Men of the Year Awards\u2019 after defending controversial radio host Alex Jones, and suggesting that celebrities<em> \u201cpushing vaccines\u201d<\/em> should pay damages. M.I.A. responded by saying the magazine\u2019s staff<em> \u201cdon\u2019t have balls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The British singer shared a message from GQ on Twitter on Friday,\u00a0confirming her appearance at the awards night and an upcoming photoshoot were canceled. The decision to drop the singer was made due to the <em>\u201ccontroversial nature\u201d<\/em> of her<em> \u201ccurrent twitter activity,\u201d<\/em> the message explained.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Paper Planes\u2019 singer was dismissive. <em>\u201cYou print words for living,\u201d<\/em> she responded. <em>\u201cHow do you judge man of the year when you don\u2019t have balls?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You print words for living . How do you judge man of the year when you don\u2019t have balls ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2dMlu0MAVJ\">pic.twitter.com\/2dMlu0MAVJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M.I.A. (@MIAuniverse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIAuniverse\/status\/1580969241540325380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The controversy seemingly erupted on Thursday, when M.I.A. tweeted: <em>\u201cIf Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn\u2019t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>InfoWars host Alex Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury on Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion to the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. Jones claimed in 2012 and 2013 that the shooting was a <em>\u201choax,\u201d<\/em> and that some of the parents faked their own children\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n<p>M.I.A. has long been skeptical of Covid-19 vaccines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2078112\/mia-anti-vaccine\/news\/\">declaring<\/a> in 2020 that she would <em>\u201cchoose death\u201d<\/em> over the coronavirus jab. Her latest comments came after Pfizer executive Janine Small <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rob_Roos\/status\/1579759795225198593\">told<\/a> European lawmakers that the company didn\u2019t test whether its vaccine prevented transmission of Covid-19 before bringing it to market.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/oct\/14\/mia-on-vaccines-vindication-and-her-visions-of-jesus-people-fear-me-for-some-reason\">Guardian<\/a> on Friday, M.I.A. defended her stance on vaccines. <em>\u201cI know three people who have died from taking the vaccine and I know three people who have died from Covid,\u201d<\/em> she told the British newspaper.<em> \u201cIf anyone is going to deny that experience and gaslight me, saying: \u2018No, that\u2019s not your experience,\u2019 then what is the point of anything?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/pop-culture\/564720-mia-alex-jones-vaccine-tweets\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British singer has been dropped from GQ magazine\u2019s upcoming \u2018Men of the Year Awards\u2019 after defending radio host Alex Jones, and suggesting that celebrities \u201cpushing vaccines\u201d should pay damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":259945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259944,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259943\/revisions\/259944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}