Last Updated on December 26, 2022
The latest “Twitter Files” drop exposed the social media platform’s coordinated censorship of COVID-19 content which contrasted with the narrative the U.S. government supported.
The 10th Twitter Files were released Monday and showed how the Biden administration would pressure Twitter to “de-platform” users who did not adopt the White House’s COVID messaging.
Journalist David Zweig released excerpts from Twitter’s internal communications which detail the Twitter censorship involving COVID-related content.
“When the Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on anti-vaxxer accounts.’ Especially Alex Berenson,” Zweig wrote.
Berenson is a prominent independent reporter, who used to work with the New York Times, with nearly 500k Twitter followers. In August, after Berenson was critical of COVID-19 vaccinations, he was permanently suspended from Twitter.
Speaking of the COVID vaccine, Berenson said, “think of it — at best — as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.”
Even after Berenson’s ban, a “very angry” Biden team continued to demand Twitter “de-platform several accounts,” Zweig wrote.
12. Culbertson wrote that the Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. They wanted Twitter to do more. pic.twitter.com/lZTQV3yKeZ
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
Succumbing to the Biden admin’s pressure, Twitter rolled out AI “bots” and hired out-of-country moderators to place warning labels on dissident COVID content.
A Harvard epidemiologist who tweeted about how “those with prior natural infection” do not need to be vaccinated had his tweet marked as “misleading” because it contrasted with the Biden admin’s COVID data.
23. After Twitter took action, Kulldorff’s tweet was slapped with a “Misleading” label and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet’s ability to be seen and shared by many people, the ostensible core function of the platform: pic.twitter.com/Qa1HpaEray
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
Zweig noted how Twitter staff called on Donald Trump to be censored after the former president called on his followers to not “be afraid of Covid” following his recovery from the virus.
“In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy,” Zweig wrote.
35. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, had to explain that optimism wasn’t misinformation. pic.twitter.com/1pj8uvzWR1
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
Read the latest Twitter files release here.
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