Posted on 12/31/2022 10:43:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Few online platforms were better poised than Twitter to serve as a clearinghouse of insight and discovery during the dizzying early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the world scrambling to make sense of the rapidly spreading new virus, commenters and investigators around the globe were turning to Twitter's real-time public forum to share information and speculation regarding the disease.
Monitors at Twitter, however, ended up interpreting the circumstances differently.
Driven by a pervasive fear of "misinformation" combined with unrelenting pressure from government officials, Twitter embarked on a heavy censorship campaign, suppressing entire narratives in the crucial early first year of the pandemic and presenting a largely one-sided interpretation of the COVID crisis that left little room for dissent.
The breadth of that effort was exposed most fully this week by journalist David Zweig, who in another entry in the ongoing "Twitter files" expose revealed "how Twitter rigged the COVID debate."
The social media company accomplished this, Zweig said, "by censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy," "by discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed" and "by suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*."
Considerable pressure to regulate speech about COVID came from the federal government, Zweig said, citing internal Twitter files. "[B]oth the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes," he wrote.
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funding comes from the government, either your with us or against us
“Driven by a pervasive fear of “misinformation”
That gives them a benefit of the doubt they do not deserve.
Driven by an overwhelming totalitarian impulse is more like it.
“[B]oth the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes.”
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Nice try.
Trump’s people hesitantly dipped their big toe into the pool.
Brandon jumped off the high dive and did a Fat Albert Bellyflop.
You wouldn’t rig a debate unless you had nefarious intentions. We now know that the US coup started with the pandemic and was solidified Nov2020. We now live in a dictatorship. Fight back at the local level.
Covid censorship: The government/press/social media at times were working together according to “twitter files” releases indicating that they were censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy as well as discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed and suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*. Internal emails and communications showed that the Biden Admin pressured Twitter to shut down medical experts who questioned COVID guidance. The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm. These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government. People are asking why was corporate journalism rushing to defend the state instead of the people?” This goes beyond censorship. Censorship is just the weapon. The goal was the manipulation of minds via the mass brainwashing of society in the name of The Greater Good. Google would make links disappear mostly through search result exposure, but also via lowering certain websites google analyitics stats. A primary job of the press has always been to be skeptical of power—especially the power of the government. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, we found that the legacy media had shown itself to largely operate as a messaging platform for our public health institutions. Those institutions operated in near total lockstep, in part by purging internal dissidents and discrediting outside experts. The United States government pressured Twitter to elevate certain content and suppress other scientific evidence that ran to the contrary about Covid-19 and the pandemic. Internal emails that I viewed at Twitter showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s content according to their wishes For example, when certain expert’s opinion despite being in line with policies in numerous other countries were deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines. After Twitter took action, these tweets slapped with a “misleading” label and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet’s ability to be seen and shared by others, a core function of the platform. (https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867 Dec 26, 2022)
Governors like your went bonkers. What’s their excuse?
Some of us ignored the entire charade except when forced to wear the face diaper, and expect to do so again as necessary.
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