Another installment in the “Twitter Files” saga is once again exposing how Big Tech worked hand-in-glove with the Biden administration to further their agenda.
This time, it concerns how Twitter worked with the Biden administration to stop what it deemed “misinformation” about COVID-19 from being spread on the platform.
On Monday, author and journalist David Zweig took to Twitter to post a thread about how the social media giant “rigged the COVID debate,” by censoring inconvenient information about the pandemic, silencing health experts who dissented from the government’s consensus, and “suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*.”
1. THREAD:
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*— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
Zweig began by mentioning that at the onset of COVID, the Trump administration met with social media sites, hoping to “combat misinformation” that would lead to panic buying and runs on grocery stores.
5. Internal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @thefp showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes.
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
But it is what Zweig reveals about the actions of the Biden administration that is particularly disturbing.
Zweig wrote that when the Biden administration took over, they immediately met with Twitter and put pressure on it to do more to suppress “anti-vaxxer” accounts, including journalists like Alex Berenson.
7. It wasn’t just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others. pic.twitter.com/OgOrRxBBBW
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
Alex Berenson is a former New York Times Journalist who criticized COVID restrictions and lockdown measures during the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Zwieg reveals that after Biden’s comments to Twitter, Berenson was kicked off the platform.
8. 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: pic.twitter.com/yBNeF2YbD3
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
But it was not just journalists who were targeted by Biden and Big Tech. Health experts who dared question the government and CDC orthodoxy on COVID were also silenced.
One of these was Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Martin Kulldorf, whose views were slapped with a “misleading” label after he questioned the wisdom of demanding that everyone take the COVID vaccine.
19. Inevitably, dissident yet legitimate content was labeled as misinformation, and the accounts of doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
22. But Kulldorff’s statement was an expert’s opinion—one which also happened to be in line with vaccine policies in numerous other countries. Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines.
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
This once again shows how under its previous owners, Twitter acted like just another branch of the federal government.
Previous installments of the “Twitter Files” had already shown that the social media giant had worked to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 election.
It has also been shown that Twitter colluded with the FBI to censor political opponents.
Make no mistake about it, for the past few years, Big Tech has operated as a branch of the Biden administration and has worked to harass those who dare criticize government policies. This has done real harm to the lives of American citizens.
It is time that we held Big Tech accountable for these authoritarian measures that have threatened the freedoms that we as Americans hold most dear.