Malone received criticism for propagating
COVID-19 misinformation, including making claims about the toxicity of
spike proteins generated by some
COVID-19 vaccines;
[3][19][5][31] using interviews on mass media to popularize medication with
ivermectin;
[32] and
tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.
[3] He said that
LinkedIn temporarily suspended his account over a post stating that the Chairman of the
Thomson Reuters Foundation was also a board member at
Pfizer, and other posts questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.
[33][34] Malone has also falsely claimed that the
Pfizer–BioNTech and
Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections,
[1] and that the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.
[35] On December 29, 2021,
Twitter permanently suspended Malone from its platform, citing "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy",
[36][37] after he shared on that platform a video about supposed harmful effects of the Pfizer vaccine.
[38][39]
On December 30, 2021, Malone claimed on the
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that something called "
mass formation psychosis" was developing in American society in its reaction to COVID-19 just as during the rise of
Nazi Germany.
[40][41] Clips of the podcast episode were removed by
YouTube from their platform for violating the site's Community Guidelines.
[41] 270 physicians, scientists, academics, nurses and students wrote an
open letter to
Spotify complaining about the content of the podcast.
[42][43] On January 3, 2022, Congressman
Troy Nehls entered a full transcript
[2][44] of
The Joe Rogan Experience interview with Malone into the
Congressional Record in order to circumvent what he said was censorship by social media.
[45][2]
On January 23, 2022, Malone spoke at an anti-vaccine and anti-vaccine mandate rally in front of the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C.[46][47]