Posted on 12/16/2022 12:07:52 PM PST by Red Badger
New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative.
In its ongoing probe into Twitter’s censorship practices, America First Legal has obtained a fourth set of documents (pdf) exposing a secret Twitter portal, which U.S. government officials used to censor dissenting COVID-19 views in violation of the First Amendment. It’s a revelation Elon Musk described as “extremely concerning.”
The documents reveal that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was collaborating with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Mafindo to mitigate “disinformation.” Mafindo is a Facebook third-party fact-checking partner based in Indonesia that is funded by Google, known to have censored searches for keywords like Coronavirus, and COVID-19 as well as blocking information regarding adverse reactions and deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines.
Facebook started its third-party fact-checking program in 2016, working with fact-checkers from around the world who are certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter to rate and review the accuracy of the content on their platform. According to the IFCN website, they believe “nonpartisan and transparent fact-checking can be a powerful instrument of accountability journalism.” However, among their advisory board, U.S.-based representatives appear to be from liberal-leaning outlets such as the Washington Post and PolitiFact, which is owned by Poynter.
The Twitter Portal
On March 10, 2021 email from a US Public Policy employee at Facebook to several CDC employees spoke of the social media giant’s “weekly sync with CDC” and how the CDC was “to invite other agencies as needed.”
A March 24, 2021 email from the same Facebook employees to CDC employees said “this is my regular FB meeting and they would like to discuss 2 misinformation topics” and “misinformation that was removed.”
On May 10, 2021, a Twitter employee recommended to a CDC official to enroll in Twitter’s Partner Support Portal, which he described as “the best way to get a spreadsheet like this reviewed.”
On May 11, 2021, the CDC official enrolled her personal Twitter account into Twitter’s Partner Support Portal, which allowed “a special, expedited reporting flow in the Twitter Help Center.”
A May 19, 2021 Facebook Community Standards manual reveals how the company works with lawmakers and legal council as well as human rights activists in developing policies in their goals of “bringing 50 million people a step closer to vaccinations” while “combatting COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation” and “overcoming global challenges in vaccination.” Methods used to accomplish this included removing “false information that has been debunked by public health experts” and rejecting ads that violate their policies, “including those that discourage vaccination.” They also reduced the distribution of “misleading claims rated by independent fact-checkers.”
Removed Content
Posts that Facebook would delete—which the CDC or any other public health authority deemed as “false and likely to contribute to imminent violence of physical harm”—included:
* Claims that COVID-19 is no more dangerous than the common flu or cold.
* Claims that COVID-19 cannot be transmitted in certain climates, weather conditions, or locations.
* Claims that for the average person, something can guarantee prevention from getting COVID-19 or can guarantee recovery from COVID-19 before such a cure or prevention has been approved.
* Claims that COVID-19 tests cause cancer.
* Claims about the availability or existence of COVID-19 vaccines.
* Claims about the safety or serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
* Claims about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
* Claims about how the COVID-19 vaccine was developed or its ingredients.
* Claims involving conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines or vaccine programs.
Content deemed to have been “debunked” included among other things, “vaccines cause the disease against which they meant to protect, or cause the person to be more likely to get the disease,” that “natural immunity is safer than vaccine acquired immunity,” and “vaccines are not effective to prevent the disease against what they purport to protect.”
Repeat offenders would face restrictions “including (but not limited to) reduced distribution, removal from recommendations” or removal from the site.
These punishments were conducted despite evidence that the vaccines do not prevent transmission, that vaccines cause adverse effects and even death, and that more vaccinated people are now dying than unvaccinated. Even the CDC admitted in June that vaccinated people could contract the disease again.
‘The Coolest Misinformation Fighting Speakeasy’ In August 2021, the head of Google’s News Lab for the Asia Pacific region (APAC), emailed a CDC Vaccine Confidence Strategist to invite her to the APAC’s “Trusted Media Summit.” The CDC’s vaccine confidence strategist then emailed the event planner for Google’s APAC Trusted Media Summit, noting her excitement over being invited to what she referred to as “the coolest misinformation fighting speakeasy.”
The same CDC employee was then invited to the summit to give a keynote addressing how the CDC was working with WHO and other international organizations to address a so-called “infodemic” and using “social inoculation” to mitigate it.
An Oct. 28 email from the CDC to the Twitter team regarded preliminary discussions on the CDC plans for communicating guidance regarding “pediatric vaccines.”
A Nov. 2, 2021 email from a Facebook employee to multiple CDC employees was related to “vaccine misinformation” relative to the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The Facebook employee informed the CDC employees that they had “launched a new feature in Instagram, where accounts that repeatedly post content that violates our policies on COVID-19 or vaccine misinformation may now lose the ability to be tagged or mentioned or may see pop-ups asking if they’d like to delete certain posts that may violate our policies.”
Finally, Facebook boasts of removing over 16 million posts on Facebook and Instagram, including over 2 million between February and May 2021.
AFL’s first release of documents revealed the explicit collusion between the CDC and Big Tech to censor what the Biden administration deemed “misinformation” and push covert COVID-19 propaganda. AFL’s second release built the evidentiary record showing that CDC specifically sent Facebook and Twitter-specific posts to take down, throttle, censor, or flag. AFL’s third release revealed that the CDC’s mask guidance policies for school children were driven by political polling by liberal dark money group The Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Epoch Times reached out to Facebook for comment.
You can be sure some of the Twats at Twit were able to destroy some information before Elon locked them out of the system.
Looks like there is still plenty of damning info left. Should be another drop tonite
Also, someone wearing a black mask in a black car is following and taking video of one of Elon’s sons. Saw a picture the son took of the guy. Trying to scare Elon into backing off. Saw that on Truth Social this morning.
https://conservativebrief.com/toddler-69169/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=DJD
Link to the video of the person following E’s son and taking videos.
Could also be helped along by the constant testing w/invasive sinus swabs.
I only had to do it once, for work, back in the early days.
After that I told them not so politely to F off.
But that felt like they were trying for a lobotomy. Are the swabs still like that?
I always thought that was entirely intentional and completely unnecessary.
I never had one, but a friend and my husband each did recently for surgery and the swab was anterior nostril only.
Some institutions, such as UW-Madison were using saliva tests in 2021.
I have personal reservations about all the swabs, but the sinus swabs were actually physically risky, especially in the hands of hurriedly-trained non-EENT professionals. The end point is an area of endangerment, as it reaches a thin bone plate with openings for nerves that is between the sinus & the brain.
“DIRECTLY harmed? That’s going to have to be answered.”
That is what smart and determined attorneys are for...we need some on our side.
“I never had one”
Oh, that’s good. They were intensely unpleasant. The girl giving it to me kept apologizing (it was very early on).
Wouldn’t surprise me if they censored any studies about the efficacy of HCQ or ivermectin against COVID, too. They’re really pushing the jab, especially on older people. I guess that’s one way to save $ on Medicare and Social Security.
Yes...and we paid for it! See Trailblazer
Since the DOJ won’t indict... how about a RICO suit naming all the individual players?
I have a good grasp of musculoskeletal anatomy and a lay interest in internal anatomy. I kept visualizing the path of that swab and I would shudder. Then, I watched a couple videos of them being applied and I watched Trump describe his and not only that: people were having this done multiple times in very short timeframes.
The prescribed pathway is asking for some sort of pathogen to be inadvertently introduced into the brain.
To this day, I cannot help but believe it was intentional. I feel the same about an injection that programs human cells to produce a foreign protein that was also part of a virus. My first question was concerning auto-immune responses. Every medical professional I asked took on that deer-in-the-headlights stare.
Recently, I asked why, if immuno-compromized people cannot mount an immune response, why are they prioritized for a procedure designed to elicit an immune response? A flush of short-lived, very specific antibodies will not suffice.
I was chuckled at.
Luckily, I’m old and have done a lot of traveling, eaten at a lot of great restaurants, and am way past my concert-going days. I do expect another run at the vaccine passport tyranny and some attempt at a Social Credit System and the CBDC.
I pray humanity en masse will stop this. If not, I will exit this phase of life without ever acquiescing to living under that sort-—or any sort—of jackboot.
But I do worry about the interim. I fear it’s going to get quite grim.
I take heart in the many younger folk who now feel the same.
As this all confronts more individuals very personally, people are examining themselves and making similar commitments. It may save us all.
I just declined a doctor visit today. Reason. 20 pages of legalese they wanted me to sign. Since I wouldn’t they refused me treatment.
Non-emergency so I guess they can do that.
Nobody that read all the ‘fine print’ would in their right mind sign it. Documents that say “No changes or handwritten entries are allowed.
Allows my medical info to be given to the feds so as to “protection services for the President and Others” No limit to what that allows them to do.
Permission to use my medical records for their marketing ...
This is the Advent Health outfit.
Massive big brother of your med records.
Oh — at counter, just sign on the electronic pad, nothing to read or screen to see what you are signing. I only got printed paper before I agreed to sign, which I didn’t.
It’s sad
And this Advent outfit hangs all sorts of religious photo all over the walls. Misleading the patient as to their real behind the scenes goals.
Also just found ...
Consumer Report Consent ... to get consumer reports about me from one or more ...
Medicare is paying.
Fundraising activities ... We may use information about you to raise money for AdventHealth ... We may disclose information about you to a foundation so they may contact you to raise money ... If you do not want this, you must notify us in writing as set forth in Section G.
My God if you don’t consent to endless crap you are allowed to die.
It’s what we all suspected anyway. Now we have proof. But the Covidians still won’t believe that the jab isn’t the thing that saved them and isn’t killing them.
My answer to Does COVID-19 truly warrant a nationwide shutdown? https://t.co/8K1dNyG2i2— peacebyjesus (@PeaceByJesus) May 18, 2020
Health care through government central planning. If you want to know what national health insurance would be like, recall the COVID disaster.
Death are higher among the vaxxinated.
Unvaxxed have s smaller death rate.
Some folks literally need to be tried for perjury and treason and if convicted of actually doing this, hanged. Now.
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