New start: ‘Truth Unmasked’ project now called ‘Alaskans Deserve Better,’ funds roll in

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Update: Must Read Alaska has taken down the first video of this project because the doctor who made the video has been subjected to harassment. We’ll update you when we can share more. There are bootlegged copies of the video floating around.

Perhaps there was too much truth for GoFundMe?

A new funding website for the “Truth Unmasked” project has been started at Fundly, as an alternative to the GoFundMe campaign that was defunded without explanation by the tech company that helps people raise money for projects.

Bernadette Wilson, an Anchorage activist and niece of the late Gov. Wally Hickel, is creating videos featuring doctors with a different perspective on the widespread mask mandates being enacted around the country, including in Anchorage. These doctors’ views are not part of Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’ narrative, nor do they support his strict mandate that is in effect through July 31.

Wilson was crowdsourcing the funds needed to produce the videos and buy radio ads to present the other point of view.

Wilson’s new fundraising page, up just 12 hours as of this writing, has been able to restore over $2,000 of the $4,800 she had raised before GoFundMe shut down her project.

Wilson says that the purpose of the project was to share a point of view that is not part of the mainstream narrative that some politicians are pushing. The fact that it is being suppressed by Big Tech shows how much the project is actually needed, she said.

She also wants to educate people about their rights if they have medical conditions that prevent them from wearing a mask over their airways.

She explains how she discovered the suppression of her project: