Independent journalist David Zweig launched the brand new ‘Twitter Files’ on how the micro-blogging platform “rigged the Covid debate”, and relied on bots and third-party contractors to average Covid-related subjects.
“Twitter censored information that was true but inconvenient to the US government policy, discredited doctors and other experts who disagreed and suppressed ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s own data,” alleged Zweig.
According to him, each the incumbent Joe Biden and former Donald Trump administrations pressured Twitter and different tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft to disseminate Covid data.
“Internal files at Twitter that I viewed showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes,” Zweig tweeted late on Monday.
At the onset of the pandemic, in response to assembly notes, “the Trump admin was especially concerned about panic buying”.
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Zweig mentioned that when the Biden administration took over, “one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on ‘anti-vaxxer accounts’. Especially Alex Berenson”.
In the summer time of 2021, President Biden mentioned social media firms had been “killing people” for permitting vaccine misinformation.
“Berenson was suspended hours after Biden’s comments, and kicked off the platform the following month,” he posted.
“A December 2022 summary of meetings with the White House by Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s Head of US Public Policy, adds new evidence of the White House’s pressure campaign, and cements that it repeatedly attempted to directly influence the platform,” Zweig added.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk mentioned {that a} follow-up piece on new ‘Twitter Files’ will come subsequent week, that includes main medical doctors and researchers from Harvard, Stanford and different establishments, “many of whom were, of course, actively suppressed on Twitter”.