“Video shows Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion in a health care fraud settlement involving COVID-19 vaccines.”
Social media posts
Instagram post. Claim dated 9 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
In 2009, Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion for fraudulent marketing of an anti-inflammatory drug called Bextra. The settlement came more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 May 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CsBW8edt3Y2/
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