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Here’s How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
Daily Caller ^ | December 07, 2022 | ALEXA SCHWERHA

Posted on 12/07/2022 10:53:14 AM PST by Red Badger

Twitter set up a portal for government officials and “stakeholders” to submit posts that allegedly contained COVID-19 misinformation for Twitter to review, according to documents released by America First Legal (AFL) on Tuesday.

Twitter officials used the portal to track online posts for review, and invited Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials to enroll, according to documents AFL obtained through its litigation against the CDC. Twitter’s Todd O’Boyle enrolled the CDC’s Carol Crawford in the portal in May 2021 after she sent an email labeled “COVID Misinformation” with links to several Twitter posts who wrote about microchips and “vaccine shedding.” O’Boyle described the channel as “the best way to get a spreadsheet like this reviewed.”

O’Boyle wrote in his response that he agreed that her submissions were “important trends to note” and assured her Twitter would review them.

On Sept. 2, Crawford emailed O’Boyle that a CDC “Lab alert” regarding PCR testing was allegedly “misinterpreted and was shared via social media.” Crawford then flagged the hashtag “pcrtest” to be monitored.

Crawford also asked for Census Department officials to be able to use the Twitter portal to flag COVID-19 misinformation, according to the documents.

“Also, would there be any issues or complications stemming from flagging COVID misinformation on the portal using the existing census.gov accounts that have access?” Crawford wrote May 24.

“In recent months, millions of Americans have witnessed the peeling of the ‘misinformation’ onion. Beneath each layer of shocking details about a partnership between the federal government and Big Tech is yet another layer of connections, conspiracy, and collaboration between power centers that seek to suppress information from the American people,” Gene Hamilton, America First Legal vice-president and general counsel, said in Tuesday’s press release. “We are proud to play a leading role in fighting for the rights of all Americans and revealing this vital information to the American people.”

Tuesday’s announcement was the fourth set of documents AFL released about COVID-19 censorship. The other sets released by AFL revealed additional information about how the government censored information about the COVID-19 pandemic, “built the evidentiary record showing that CDC specifically sent Facebook and Twitter-specific posts to take down, throttle, censor, or flag,” and linked the CDC’s guidelines on in-school mask mandates to “political polling by liberal dark money group The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF),” according to the press release.

KFF “is a nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy,” according to it website.

KFF received funding from platforms including Google and Twitter and its officials have served in both the Biden and Obama administrations, a November AFL press release claimed. Drew Altman, KFF president and CEO, claimed in an August 2021 email to Biden officials that mask mandates in school were popular and those who opposed the policy ” is “made up of the usual suspects” who are “large enough to make some trouble,” AFL revealed.

O’Boyle, Crawford, the CDC, the WHO, Facebook, Google, KFF and Twitter did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; cdc; censorship; covid; covid19; covidtruth; freespeech; internet; narrative; scamdemic; socialmedia

1 posted on 12/07/2022 10:53:14 AM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 12/07/2022 10:56:38 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Red Badger

100% illegal for gov’t to do this, but nothing will happen. At best they will say we won’t do it again.

Why not put these people in the DC Gulag? Hold them in isolation and without bond for 2 years before their trial.


3 posted on 12/07/2022 10:58:32 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Red Badger

There needs to be civil and criminal law suits for all these individuals. The question is, should Twitter as a company be sued?


4 posted on 12/07/2022 10:58:46 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Red Badger

Everyone involved who used that portal at the CDC should do minimum 2-5 years for violation of 1A civil rights under color of law.


5 posted on 12/07/2022 10:59:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Red Badger; Jane Long; ransomnote; nickcarraway; DoodleBob
Meanwhile, just ran across this eye-popper, published 3 months ago...

Covid‐19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors

6 posted on 12/07/2022 11:00:33 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red Badger

Any word on whether any this sort of thing may be illegal? Or if any one is going to care about that part?


7 posted on 12/07/2022 11:00:53 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Red Badger

All of the social media companies and news organizations did this it wasn’t unique to Twitter


8 posted on 12/07/2022 11:02:13 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Delta 21

Today’s livestream at the Senate

ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
DEC 7
live stream to be able to. So here is the link and the draft agenda.

https://substack.com/redirect/e4f72d69-ca41-46a6-8e33-b2fcc098589d?j=eyJ1IjoidHEzZHcifQ.2UfuT849ym5_34TSIuA2luAYDqXBJX3luwOxNy6q1I4

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A Manufactured Illusion: Dr David Martin with Reiner Fuellmich

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDlHprql-g

Run Time 1 hour 26 minutes

/

RFK Jr.: Reporter Found Monument to Dead Orphans Tortured and Killed by Monster Fauci (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/rfk-jr-reporter-found-monument-dead-orphans-tortured-killed-monster-fauci-video/

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9 posted on 12/07/2022 11:03:03 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Red Badger

Utterly disgusting how the US Government needed to control speech. It’s better to reveal than conceal!! Thank you Elon Musk,


10 posted on 12/07/2022 11:04:43 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: Red Badger

“Twitter set up a portal for government officials and “stakeholders” to submit posts that allegedly contained COVID-19 misinformation for Twitter to review,”

Lemme guess who never gets to be a “stakeholder”?


11 posted on 12/07/2022 11:10:38 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Delta 21

Another example of nascent fascism / corporatism between FedGov and Big Tech.


12 posted on 12/07/2022 11:13:28 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: DesertRhino

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it...................


13 posted on 12/07/2022 11:16:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Delta 21

This DOJ don’t give a rat’s a$$...................


14 posted on 12/07/2022 11:17:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sometimes they flagged their own material.


15 posted on 12/07/2022 11:18:58 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: mewzilla; rktman
Ties in with the recent German study.....

COVID shots linked to plummeting fertility, study says German details confirm ‘strong association’

wnd.com ^ | 11/7/2022 1634 hrs et | WND staff
Posted on 11/8/2022, 9:12:31 AM by rktman

A German study has linked the experimental COVID-19 shots mandated by many governments, companies and institutions over the last two years to a plummeting fertility rate.

The results come from Germany's Federal Institute for Population Research, which reported a “strong association between the onset of vaccination programs and the fertility decline nine months after.”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4107232/posts

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There *SHOULD* be a baby BOOM, after months and months of lockdowns.

NOT decreased fertility rates.

We've known why....maybe others will (hopefully) wake up.

Not that the evil, lying, MSM is reporting any of this horrid news.

16 posted on 12/07/2022 11:21:59 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: cuz1961

Thank you for the Senate livestream link, w/Dr Malone.


17 posted on 12/07/2022 11:23:21 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: Red Badger

I’m reading everyday that my assessment, social media is a scourge of society, has been accurate from day one...and continues to this day in spite of Elon Musk.


18 posted on 12/07/2022 11:33:08 AM PST by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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To: Red Badger

Twitter (and others) became private vendor proxies for the federal government’s illegal censorship of free speech.


19 posted on 12/07/2022 11:50:49 AM PST by Wuli
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