Good day all. The Twitter Files have been dropping fast and furious over the last 10 days or so. Most of the first six info dumps revolved around Twitter’s management and employees censoring conservatives and banning the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump. However, they also went after anyone who went against the “Official” line regarding the Coronavirus.
The Covid-19 panicdemic, (Not a typo, I assure you), was used by Deep State and Progressive politicians to basically suspend the Constitution and, more importantly, to “Get Trump!” When the virus first showed up, Doctors around the world were looking at what it was and how to combat it.
However, certain parties knew where it came from and moved to bury the information. One of the earliest indications that the Covid-19 virus may not have been naturally occurring was when scientists studying the virus sequenced it’s genetic structure. Someone posted that there were sequences that can not occur in nature and that it appeared to show that the virus was genetically modified.
If you don’t remember hearing about this, there is a good reason. It was quickly shut down by Twitter and Big Tech. Additional information that indicated that the virus escaped a lab in Wuhan, China were also shut down and people talking abut it blocked and banned, accused of pushing conspiracy theories. Those theories, no thanks to the likes of Anthony Fauci, Google, Facebook and Twitter have now been proved to be accurate.
As more and more information was coming out on where the virus came from and, more importantly, how to treat it, the Twitter censors ramped up their campaigns. One of the most notable was the information a doctor found that an old anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, seemed to be able to weaken the virus and allow a patients immune system to eradicate the virus. When President Trump mentioned I and thought it should be looked into, the Twitter censors went to work. Here are some of the details of their activities from the Post Millennial:
No sooner had Twitter employees succeeded in mobbing sitting President Donald Trump off the social media platform in 2021 despite there having been no violations of Twitter’s terms of service made by Trump than the tweeps, as they are known, took it upon themselves to censor medical information.
In Monday’s installment, (December 12th), of the Twitter Files, as told by Bari Weiss, it was revealed that as of January 9, 2021, one day after Trump’s speech on Twitter was silenced, “employees expressed eagerness to tackle ‘medical misinformation’ as soon as possible,” Weiss reported.
Internal communications show that Twitter employees were eager to take control of content and bend it to their own biases. “Yes,” one employee wrote, “we absolutely plan to do this in 2021 – with the timeline being ‘as soon as possible.”
If you are growing concerned that a pack of untrained Woke Progressive moonbats were deciding what medical information you would be permitted to see, just wait. It gets worse.
While COVID was the thrust, as the world was still engaged in an ongoing pandemic, the employee wrote that “COVID is one specific disease; medical misinformation is a much broader category of harmful content.”
“We’ve laid a lot of the groundwork for policy and product behavior through our work on COVID and the election,” the employee wrote, seemingly proud of their efforts to silence and suppress the voices of doctors, election officials, and civilians they did not agree with on these hot-button issues.
It may take years to find out just how many people may have died because of the actions of Old Twitter and the rest of Big Tech.
The employee went on to note the departments at Twitter that were hard at work censoring users on the platform, saying “the Misinfo Policy team… along with the folks in Health Experience, TwS, Research, and other teams across the company are now focussed on getting to a place of improved maturity in how our policies are actualized (across reporting, operations, global scale, scope, etc.”
“We’ll have more to share on this soon!” The employee wrote.
I think it may be a good thing that Elon Musk took over Twitter when he did. The damage caused by the policies of Fauci, the CDC and the Progressives is in the trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. If this had come out with the old Twitter 1.0 management still in place, it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility that violence wold have occurred. As it now stands, most of these twerps have been fired by Musk, and for good reason.
In response to this, another employee was also gleeful about the news that they could soon begin operating to suppress and censor content based on their own biases and assumptions rather than based on written policy.
“Very excited to see us handling more categories of misinformation,” the employee wrote. “For the longest time, Twitter’s stance was that we aren’t the arbiter of truth which I respected but never gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
“That said,” the employee continued, “my dad is an MD (to give context) and medical information is a really hard topic. Even for COVID-19 we only covered a narrow category of information. As an example, is ‘Take vitamin C, vitamin D, elderberry, and xylitol with GSE daily to reduce covid-19 risk’ good information, creative marketing, or misinformation? Personally, I’m not sure and I suspect there are views on both sides.
And there is the issue. Twitter didn’t have trained medical people on staff to talk to regarding these posts. In fact, thanks to Twitter’s censorship of anything that didn’t follow the narrative, the normal give and take that goes on regarding possible treatments was shut down. For instance, the potential of using hydroxychloroquine to block or even cure Covid-19.
As I recall, it first came to the notice of a French doctor who tried it on a few patients after he noticed others who used it to prevent malaria either got sick with the Coronavirus and suffered very mild symptoms, or who didn’t catch it at all. He administered the drug to a few patients and they showed rapid improvement.
He put out the information with the understanding that it needed to be looked into. Instead, the NIH under Fauci shut it down. Still, word got out and other doctors tried it and eventually came up with a drug cocktail involving hydroxychloroquine and some antibiotics that appeared to stop Covid-19 cold.
This should have been bouncing around Twitter and other social media sites as more and more doctors researched and posted what they found. Instead they were shut down, blocked, banned and in some cases threatened with jail if they prescribed it for Covid-19. (Interestingly, at least one governor stockpiled hydroxychloroquine after threatening doctors and hospitals if they used it)
The next thing the censors jumped on was people complaining about the lock-downs. Doctors and individuals, (Myself included), thought the idea of locking people up in their homes was asinine and unconstitutional.
It was in the spirit of banning “Covid misinformation” that people who criticized lockdowns and school closures, like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was banned. In a previous Twitter Files drop, Weiss reported that Twitter prevented noted doctor Jay Bhattacharya’s tweets from trending during the pandemic-inspired lockdowns. Bhattacharya was an early critic of lockdowns and spoke out against their negative impact on children, who were not as susceptible to the Covid virus.
And the good doctor was correct. Children were prevented from seeing their friends, going to school and just being kids. It was quickly understood that children and young adults, unless they had an underlying illness, would throw off the virus very easily. However, it went against the narrative and was, in the eyes of Twitter 1.0 wrongspeak, therefore it had to be banned and the people talking about it made into non-persons.
Information on alternative treatments for Covid were suppressed and censored, as well as any concerns about vaccine efficacy. Drunk with power off of the Trump ban, Twitter banned sitting US Rep from Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene for citing US government statistics from the VAERS database, where Americans report vaccine side effects.
Twitter said “We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy.”
MTG was an ongoing target for Twitter, and they were going to ban her no matter what. That she was quoting government statistics didn’t matter to the little Twitlers of Twitter 1.0.
Greene was literally citing government statistics from the database, and Twitter employees felt that this was misinformation. Collected data from VAERS goes back to 1990.
“Social media platforms can’t stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can’t stop the truth,” Greene said on Telegram at the time. “I stand with the truth and the people. We will overcome!”
And she did. I believe her account has been reactivated, although she seems to post more often on Truth Social.
Alex Berenson was banned for asking questions about vaccines, as well. Berenson was reinstated, and he made an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss what he learned after filing, and winning a lawsuit against Twitter.
“So Twitter, turns out acting on orders from the Biden administration, banned his account. Now, no one really knew that, people only suspected it. But now we know for certain because Berenson did something that Twitter was not expecting: he sued and he won,” Carlson said.
I can’t recall if Mr. Berenson was reinstated under Twitter 1.0 or if it was Elon Musk who reinstated him. In any case, the story of what happened to Mr. Berenson is a story unto itself.
The Biden Maladministration has a lot to answer for. The direct assault on the Constitutional rights of the American people, with the active aid of Big Tech in general and Twitter 1.0 in particular requires investigation and, if things are as bad as they appear, criminal charges against individuals and removal from office of others. Whether or not Twitter survives, the Freedom loving people of the United States of America owe a debt to Elon Musk for providing these records to the journalists producing the Twitter Files.
***POSTSCRIPT***
David Zweig released a detailed report on the suppression of critical information by Twitter. I will be writing something about that as soon as I have time.
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