Manipulated, part II
Well, I knew the CDC article wasn’t terribly surprising. But it just gets better and better. The NY Post has the story on how both of the last two administrations pressured Twitter to censor data they found inconvenient.
The Biden White House pressured Twitter to both “elevate” and “suppress” users based on their stances on COVID-19 — ultimately “censoring info that was true but inconvenient” to policy makers, according to the latest edition of the “Twitter files” revealed Monday.
The coercion campaign during the pandemic began with the Trump administration — which asked Twitter to crack down on stories about panic buying and “runs on grocery stores” in the early days of the outbreak — but was stepped up under Biden, whose administration was focused on the removal of “anti-vaxxer accounts,” according to The Free Press reporter David Zweig.
Seems like once the politicians get a good thing going, it’s hard not to just keep running with it, eh?
For example, in June 2021, hours after Biden publicly raged that social media companies were “killing people” for allowing purported vaccine misinformation to propagate, former New York Times reporter and noted vaccine doubter Alex Berenson was suspended from the site and was ultimately banned.
“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine,” Berenson had tweeted.
“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,” he also wrote.
Isn’t that more or less what the administration is saying now? Get the shot, it will mitigate the effects of getting Covid and hopefully keep you out of the hospital…make sure you get the latest variant.
Among those users whom Twitter did clamp down on was Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School who tweeted in March 2021 that people “with prior natural infection do not need” the COVID-19 vaccine, “[n]or [do] children.”
Kulldorff’s tweet was flagged by the site as “misleading” — even though it was in line with the vaccine policies of “numerous other countries,” Zweig wrote.
The latest revelations came after previous “Twitter Files” found the FBI and CIA had meddled in the social media company, and prompted it to bow to political pressure — including convincing Twitter to censor The Post’s exposé in the weeks before the 2020 election detailing how Hunter Biden used his father’s name to secure questionable business arrangements overseas.
Seems to me I read once that one of the hallmarks of a totalitarian state is control of information flow to its citizenry.
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It wasn’t really total control of the media.
It was attempted total control. It was for the children. And to stop the Nazis. And for puppy dogs (but not cats, fuk them bastards).
Except for the beagles that Dr. Fauci let sand flies eat their faces off.
The goal is the control of We, The people. They made a pretty good start on it, haven’t they. Now if they can do something to get those pesky guns out of our hands, then they can go ahead and do the other things that would make us want to shoot them.
Any intelligent person would’ve seen thru the scamdemic when the research data on the clot shot was sealed and a release from liability was granted to Big Pharm. Horizon Corp grins.
Maybe Elon can continue to rip the scab off and expose to We, The People what Trump started.
Surprising absolutely no one.
Just violated federal law, Constitution, etc.– no big!