Reggae star Buju Banton is at it again.
The Til Shiloh artiste has emerged as one of the staunchest critics of Jamaica’s containment measures and global vaccination efforts, but he may have gone a bit overboard with his latest posts on social media as one of his posts was flagged as false by Instagram fact checkers earlier this week.
The post captioned ““IN PLANE SIGHT” (sic), with a screenshot of information with World Health Organisation and John Hopkins University logos, which claimed that there was a plan to release different strains of the coronavirus over the next two years.
Instagram fact-checkers found that not only was the chart showing the schedule of release dates untrue, but that the flawed variant information fuels baseless COVID-19 theory. Buju’s post appears to be an edited version of the list of COVID-19 variants announced by the World Health Organisation, using a new naming system via the Greek alphabet, to make it easier for non-scientists to keep track of them.
The Boom Bye Bye singer has been making posts arguing that the pandemic was planned to implement, among other things, a “New World Order”.
After the post was ridiculed and flagged as false, Buju doubled down: “Why wouldn’t it be fake johns Hopkins uni info is fake? Or we catching up too quick?”
Banton has become one of the leading voices heaping coals of fire on the COVID-19 ‘plan-demic’. Last October, he posted three videos on Instagram hitting out against COVID protocols, particularly the wearing of masks.
