Latest Twitter Files show that experts who dissented from CDC were censored

National Review reports, “During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Twitter’s leaders bowed to government pressure to censor information that was true but inconvenient, suspended medical professionals who disagreed with establishment views, and relied on bots and foreign contractors to moderate complex scientific topics, according to the newest edition of the Twitter Files…

23. After Twitter took action, Kulldorff’s tweet was slapped with a “Misleading” label and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet’s ability to be seen and shared by many people, the ostensible core function of the platform: pic.twitter.com/Qa1HpaEray

— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022

Zweig reported, Twitter did suppress views, including the views of doctors and scientific experts whose opinions ‘conflicted with the official position of the White House,’ ‘differed from CDC guidelines,’ or were ‘contrarian but true.’

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard Medical School epidemiologist, tweeted views at odds with U.S. public-health authorities and the American Left (‘the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter’), Zweig’s report noted. One of his tweets about vaccines was flagged by a moderator as ‘false information,’ even though it was essentially an expert opinion, and in line with vaccine policies in several other countries. ‘Yet it was deemed ‘false information’ by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines,’ Zweig reported."

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