Former TV presenter denies being paid to highlight anti-vaccine message

Aisling O'Loughlin has posted multiple updates to her Instagram account since the beginning of April expressing scepticism regarding vaccines and Covid-19 restrictions. 

A former presenter on Irish television now based in France has denied that she has had any interactions with a Russia-linked PR agency accused of paying influencers to disparage Covid vaccines.

Aisling O’Loughlin, who worked with what was then TV3 from 2001 until 2016, responded on her Instagram account to a story in The Guardianclaiming that influencers in France and Germany had been offered money by an agency, called Fazze, to falsely tell their followers that the Pfizer vaccine had been responsible for thousands of deaths.