THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

[berryberry]

1. THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.

3. What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @thefp, is one piece of that important story.

4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.

Much more - Read the whole thread here:

https://twitter.com/davidzweig/statu...1BCjqo-Vk_AiJQ

[berryberry]

Some highlights on how Senile Biden's Admin illegally censored American's free speech:

In July 2021, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a 22-page advisory concerning what the World Health Organization referred to as an “infodemic,” and called on social media platforms to do more to shut down “misformation.”

“We are asking them to step up,” Murthy said. “We can’t wait longer for them to take aggressive action.”

That’s the message the White House had already taken directly to Twitter executives in private channels. One of the Biden administration’s first meeting requests was about Covid, with a focus on “anti-vaxxer accounts,” according to a meeting summary by Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s Head of U.S. Public Policy.

They were especially concerned about Alex Berenson, a journalist skeptical of lockdowns and mRNA vaccines, who had hundreds of thousands of followers on the platform:



By the summer of 2021, the day after Murthy’s memo, Biden announced publicly that social media companies were “killing people” by allowing misinformation about vaccines. Just hours later, Twitter locked Berenson out of his account, and then permanently suspended him the next month. Berenson sued Twitter. He ultimately settled with the company, and is now back on the platform. As part of the lawsuit, Twitter was compelled to provide certain internal communications. They revealed that the White House had directly met with Twitter employees and pressured them to take action on Berenson.

The summary of meetings by Culbertson, emailed to colleagues in December 2022, adds new evidence of the White House’s pressure campaign, and illustrates how it tried to directly influence what content was allowed on Twitter.

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.



Twitter executives did not fully capitulate to the Biden team’s wishes. An extensive review of internal communications at the company revealed that employees often debated moderation cases in great detail, and with more care for free speech than was shown by the government.

But Twitter did suppress views—and not just those of journalists like Berenson. Many medical and public health professionals who expressed perspectives or even cited findings from accredited academic journals that conflicted with official positions were also targeted. As a result, legitimate findings and questions about our Covid policies and their consequences went missing.

Here is a quick summary article with more:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...d-covid-debate

[berryberry]

And the full news story:

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
The platform suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.

By David Zweig

Monday, Dec 26, 2022

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-...e-covid-debate

[berryberry]

Elon Musk:

Much more to The Twitter Files: Covid Editon than this introductory thread.

Follow-up piece to come next week, featuring leading doctors & researchers from Harvard, Stanford & other institutions.

[eyecu2]

Will there be the parts where Ivermectin and "bleach ...where it disinfects the lungs" is that also gonna be in the new Twitter doc releases??

Mmmm bleach, goes down good when it's orange flavored

[berryberry]

Originally Posted by eyecu2

Will there be the parts where Ivermectin and "bleach ...where it disinfects the lungs" is that also gonna be in the new Twitter doc releases??

Mmmm bleach, goes down good when it's orange flavored

Not surprised that you ignore the blatant attacks on free speech by the Senile Biden Admin. We have the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ and now the White House directly pressuring Twitter execs to censor Americans’ speech. How can anyone take seriously leftists like you who joke about it and continue to pretend this is not a problem?

[eyecu2]

Apparently you left out the parts where the Trump administration also pushed for some of the same favoritism, and then threatened to add legislation to limit tech companies and speech on them, because they kept fact checking fatman and his stream of lies and bullshit. Funny how when someone holds the man-baby to account, he throws a tantrum and blabbers on about another whataboutism and misdirection. He knows how to keep his supporters engaged...keeps yelling squirrel!

Trump and the GOP don't have a censorship problem, they have a problem with the truth.

[1pittsburgh]

eyecu2 a leftist? That's hilarious.

[berryberry]

Originally Posted by eyecu2

Apparently you left out the parts where the Trump administration also pushed for some of the same

Do you mean like this?

Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why President Trump telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy?





Yeah, unlike Senile Biden who shit all over free speech (when he wasn't busy shitting himself) and having Twitter suppress true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy, the only thing the Trump Admin tried to manage is widespread panic causing a run on grocery stores and panic buying. IMO they were wrong as well to ask Twitter to censor anything but it is nothing compared to what Senile Biden did to trample all over people's constitutional rights and hide the truth.

[berryberry]

Twitter suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.

Why are unelected bureaucrats and leftist politicians so threatened by dissenting views?

Why do they feel entitled to ignore the first amendment and silence anyone questioning them?

This isn’t the behavior of a government that respects its citizens. This is how authoritarian regimes operate.

[eyecu2]

Well I think the tweet by Trump was just as Yoel mentions, an optimistic view (albeit not based in fact but rather only Trump's opinion) and was not or shouldn't have been limited. I can see how it might raise a concern about protectionists who would rather error on the side of caution vs. optimism. I think the ONLY issue I have is that it happened right in the midst of heavy contagion period, and while it's ok to be optimistic, the tone of leaders shouldn't be to minimize safety at the cost of optimism. As usual, the big orange monkey has zero way with words, and cannot speak eloquently, or convey a mixed message of optimism and caution.

His way of conveying any sense of magnitude is to use the phrase "like never seen before". Which is really more alarming than ever accurate. As I think about it, I think that's how he gets most people to get fired up is by alarming them. He falsely accuses anyone he views as an enemy as being such, "like never before".

It's grown old and stale

[berryberry]

Glenn Greenwald - When Dems controlled both houses of Congress and the WH (and Exec Branch), they repeatedly summoned Big Tech CEOs and openly and explicitly threatened them: if you don't *censor more*, you will be punished. And DHS/FBI/CIA applied immense pressure

[1pittsburgh]

Spring 2020 when the case fatality rate was still around 3%:



"Mr. President, what do have to say to the American people who are afraid?"
-Reporter

"That's a nasty question"
-Trump


It was a softball question. A perfect chance to act like a real president. Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and probably even Nixon would all have given a good response. Trump tried his best to suppress the media the entire time that he was the top agent of the United States government, therefor shitting on the first amendment.

[berryberry]

Hard to conceive of a more perfect symbol for our times under Senile Biden than overseas foreign workers being used to censor Americans’ protected speech at the behest of the Senile Biden Administration.

16. Second, contractors, in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate

[1pittsburgh]

berry, do you agree that Trump shit on the first amendment by trying to suppress the media?