Twitter – Pandemic Timeline https://pandemictimeline.com Chronological Sequence of Events Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:24:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://pandemictimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Covid-150x150.ico Twitter – Pandemic Timeline https://pandemictimeline.com 32 32 America’s Frontline Doctors hold a press conference and get censored by YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook as well as their website’s host, Squarespace. https://pandemictimeline.com/2020/07/americas-frontline-doctors-hold-a-press-conference-and-get-censored-by-youtube-twitter-and-facebook-as-well-as-their-websites-host-squarespace/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:04 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=354 Video of the press conference went viral before it was censored from social media. These are doctors who have actually treated COVID-19 patients, so they know what they’re talking about. The video can still be found here: DR. STELLA IMMANUEL | THERE IS A CURE FOR COVID… HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE Source: See also, on this site: America’s Frontline…

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Video of the press conference went viral before it was censored from social media. These are doctors who have actually treated COVID-19 patients, so they know what they’re talking about. The video can still be found here: DR. STELLA IMMANUEL | THERE IS A CURE FOR COVID… HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE

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]]> Jim Baker questions Pres. Trump’s optimism https://pandemictimeline.com/2020/10/jim-baker-questions-pres-trumps-optimism/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:41 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=12232 33. Another example of human bias run amok was the reaction to this tweet by Trump. Many Trump tweets led to extensive internal debates, and this one was no different. 34. In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation…

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33. Another example of human bias run amok was the reaction to this tweet by Trump. Many Trump tweets led to extensive internal debates, and this one was no different.

34. In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy.

35. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, had to explain that optimism wasn’t misinformation.

— David Zweig

This concern that “Don’t be afraid of Covid” might be a violation of COVID-19 policy implies that Jim Baker believes that being afraid of COVID-19 is part of the narrative.

If so, then is terrorism part of the COVID-19 narrative?

Full Definition of terrorism

: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

— Merriam-Webster

Full Definition of terror

1 : a state of intense or overwhelming fear

overcome by terror

people fleeing the scene in terror

He lived in terror of being caught.
2 : violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion

a regime that rules by terror

especially : violent or destructive acts (such as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands

an act of terror

the war on terror

—sometimes used before another noun

a terror attack
3 : a very frightening or terrifying aspect

the terrors of war
4 a : someone or something that inspires fear : SCOURGE

I stood before fierce Mrs. Mabel Johnston, his secretary and the terror of the office.
— Russell Baker

Before rifles were available to Eskimo hunters, bears were truly the terror of their existence.
— Charles T. Feazel
b informal : an extremely disruptive or annoying person or thing
especially : a misbehaving child : BRAT

Their son is a little terror.
5 : REIGN OF TERROR

— Merriam-Webster

Terrorizing people is against  the law.  Terrorism is defined in the law as follows:

(1) the term “international terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;
(2) the term “national of the United States” has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
(3) the term “person” means any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property;
(4) the term “act of war” means any act occurring in the course of—
(A) declared war;
(B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or
(C) armed conflict between military forces of any origin;
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States; and

— 18 U.S. Code § 2331 – Definitions

The actions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic are consistent with the legal definition of terrorism.

Media coverage was designed to scare people into taking the so-called “vaccines”.  Coercion was used to get people to take the “vaccines”, usually as threats of loss of employment or education or freedom to travel, though social pressure was also used.  The “vaccines” have been shown to be dangerous.

Furthermore, fraud in the form of lies about efficacy and concealment of data showing otherwise was used to protect the narrative.

Full Definition of fraud

1 a : DECEIT, TRICKERY
specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right

was accused of credit card fraud
b : an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : TRICK

automobile insurance frauds
2 a : a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : IMPOSTOR

He claimed to be a licensed psychologist, but he turned out to be a fraud.

also : one who defrauds : CHEAT
b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be

The UFO picture was proved to be a fraud.

— Merriam-Webster

Fraud must be proved by showing that the defendant’s actions involved five separate elements: (1) a false statement of a material fact, (2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue, (3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim, (4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement, and (5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.

— The Free Dictionary

Fraud vitiates everything.  Any deals of protection made to the perpetrators of the terrorism that is the COVID-19 pandemic are voided by the acts of fraud.

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]]> Alex Berenson suspended for reporting Pfizer results https://pandemictimeline.com/2021/07/alex-berenson-suspended-for-reporting-pfizer-results/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=5246 At the beginning of the inoculation rollout, social media had everyone cooing about how they were “following the science.”  And yet look what happens when someone actually does!  Former New York Times science reporter, Alex Berenson, had the audacity to report on results from Pfizer’s clinical test; Twitter suspended him for that.  But then, this…

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At the beginning of the inoculation rollout, social media had everyone cooing about how they were “following the science.”  And yet look what happens when someone actually does!  Former New York Times science reporter, Alex Berenson, had the audacity to report on results from Pfizer’s clinical test; Twitter suspended him for that.  But then, this should not surprise us.  When the Pfizer biodistribution study was received by request from Japan’s regulatory agency, the legacy media did not want to touch that story, either.

Alex Berenson’s final tweet

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]]> Twitter permanently suspends Alex Berenson over coronavirus tweets https://pandemictimeline.com/2021/08/twitter-permanently-suspends-alex-berenson-over-coronavirus-tweets/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:20 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=4673 This is the tweet that did it: This is something we have known about for a while, actually.  TIME magazine told us back in February that the vaccines don’t prevent infection or spread. The day before, he had been tweeting about an Israeli study preprint claiming that natural immunity from a prior Covid-19 infection is…

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This is the tweet that did it:

This is something we have known about for a while, actually.  TIME magazine told us back in February that the vaccines don’t prevent infection or spread.

The day before, he had been tweeting about an Israeli study preprint claiming that natural immunity from a prior Covid-19 infection is 13 times more effective against the delta variant than vaccines.

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]]> Elon Musk begins quietly buying Twitter shares https://pandemictimeline.com/2022/01/elon-musk-begins-quietly-buying-twitter-shares/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:37 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=9863 This post is here because Elon Musk owns Neuralink.  Tesla makes RNA printers for the vaccine industry.  SpaceX is operating the Starlink satellite constellation.  All of these together are the physical components of an under-the-skin global control network for the fourth industrial revolution as described by Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari.  Twitter could become…

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This post is here because Elon Musk owns Neuralink.  Tesla makes RNA printers for the vaccine industry.  SpaceX is operating the Starlink satellite constellation.  All of these together are the physical components of an under-the-skin global control network for the fourth industrial revolution as described by Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari.  Twitter could become a software backbone for that network.

Do you believe in coincidences?

— Q

How many coincidences before mathematically impossible?

— Q

I have my doubts that any statements about restoring freedom of speech can override these considerations.  Further, prophets are now saying that God inspired Elon Musk to buy Twitter.  That may be true, but such an action does not by itself nullify other motives.  Elon Musk may not be aware that God inspired his actions, nor would we necessarily know why God would inspire such an action.  Motives still need to be clarified.  The situation is not as simple as it appears to be.

As a result of Elon Musk’s buy-out attempt, the extent of Twitter’s bias is being exposed.  In addition to Twitter’s shutting down of conservative views, we are now finding out that the popularity of left-leaning celebrities was propped up by bot accounts.

Let us hope that Elon Musk is White Hat, but he has the capability to be as Black Hat as any of them.  The Starlink incident has me wondering because it fulfilled a prophecy.  If Elon Musk’s motives were truly favored by God, would such a calamity have been allowed?  But then, the calamity befell Elon Musk’s work and not the man.  This may be God chastening Elon Musk in the hope that he makes a course correction.

My outlook on this situation remains cautious.  Just because we CAN do something doesn’t mean we SHOULD do it.  Even if Elon Musk’s motives are good, the motives of his successors may not be good.  Too often, the hearts of the ultra-rich and powerful are hardened to do evil, as we have too often seen during the course of this plandemic.  Given the songs published by Elon Musk’s girlfriend and baby mama, Grimes, I am not optimistic.

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]]> Twitter releases its COVID thread https://pandemictimeline.com/2022/12/twitter-releases-its-covid-thread/ Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:53 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=11724 This thread shows that Twitter censorship included suppression of data from governments that contradicted the official narrative. 1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By suppressing ordinary users,…

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This thread shows that Twitter censorship included suppression of data from governments that contradicted the official narrative.

1. THREAD:
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.

3. What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @thefp, is one piece of that important story.

4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.

5. Internal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @thefp showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes.

6. At the onset of the pandemic, according to meeting notes, the Trump admin was especially concerned about panic buying. They came looking for “help from the tech companies to combat misinformation” about “runs on grocery stores.” But . . . there were runs on grocery stores.

7. It wasn’t just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others.

8. When the Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on “anti-vaxxer accounts.” Especially Alex Berenson:

9. In the summer of 2021, president Biden said social media companies were “killing people” for allowing vaccine misinformation. Berenson was suspended hours after Biden’s comments, and kicked off the platform the following month.

10. Berenson sued (and then settled with) Twitter. In the legal process Twitter was compelled to release certain internal communications, which showed direct White House pressure on the company to take action on Berenson.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/jesse-jackson-cant-swim

11. A December 2022 summary of meetings with the White House by Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s Head of U.S. Public Policy, adds new evidence of the White House’s pressure campaign, and cements that it repeatedly attempted to directly influence the platform.

12. Culbertson wrote that the Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. They wanted Twitter to do more.

13. Twitter executives did not fully capitulate to the Biden team’s wishes. An extensive review of internal communications at the company revealed employees often debating moderation cases in great detail, and with more care than was shown by the government toward free speech.

14. But Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.

15. There were three serious problems with Twitter’s process: First, much of the content moderation was conducted by bots, trained on machine learning and AI – impressive in their engineering, yet still too crude for such nuanced work.

16. Second, contractors, in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate

17 Third, most importantly, the buck stopped with higher level employees at Twitter who chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, and subjectively decided escalated cases and suspensions. As it is with all people and institutions, there was individual and collective bias

18. With Covid, this bias bent heavily toward establishment dogmas.

19. Inevitably, dissident yet legitimate content was labeled as misinformation, and the accounts of doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.

20. Exhibit A: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, tweeted views at odds with US public health authorities and the American left, the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter.

21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”

22. But Kulldorff’s statement was an expert’s opinion—one which also happened to be in line with vaccine policies in numerous other countries. Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines.

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:

24. In my review of internal files, I found countless instances of tweets labeled as “misleading” or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions, simply because they veered from CDC guidance or differed from establishment views.

25. A tweet by @KelleyKga, a self-proclaimed public health fact checker, with 18K followers, was flagged as “Misleading,” and replies and likes disabled, even though it displayed the CDC’s *own data.*

26. Internal records showed that a bot had flagged the tweet, and that it received many “tattles” (what the system amusingly called reports from users). That triggered a manual review by a human who– despite the tweet showing actual CDC data–nevertheless labeled it “Misleading”

27. Tellingly, the tweet by @KelleyKga that was labeled “Misleading” was a reply to a tweet that contained actual misinformation.

Covid has never been the leading cause of death from disease in children. Yet that tweet remains on the platform, and without a “misleading” label.

28. Whether by humans or algorithms, content that was contrarian but true was still subject to getting flagged or suppressed

This tweet was labeled “Misleading,” even though the owner of this account, @_euzebiusz_, a physician, was referring to the results of a published study

29. Andrew Bostom, a Rhode Island physician, was permanently suspended from Twitter after receiving multiple strikes for misinformation. One of his strikes was for a tweet referring to the results from a peer reviewed study on mRNA vaccines.

30. A review of Twitter log files revealed that an internal audit, conducted after Bostom’s attorney contacted Twitter, found that only 1 of Bostom’s 5 violations were valid.

31. The one Bostom tweet found to still be in violation cited data that was legitimate but inconvenient to the public health establishment’s narrative about the risks of flu versus Covid in children.

32. That this tweet was not only flagged by a bot, but its violation manually affirmed by a staff member is telling of both the algorithmic and human bias at play. Bostom’s account was suspended for months and was finally restored on Christmas Day.

33. Another example of human bias run amok was the reaction to this tweet by Trump. Many Trump tweets led to extensive internal debates, and this one was no different.

34. In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy.

35. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, had to explain that optimism wasn’t misinformation.

36. Remember @KelleyKga with the CDC data tweet? Twitter’s response to her is clarifying: “we will prioritize review and labeling of content that could lead to increased exposure or transmission.”

37. Twitter made a decision, via the political leanings of senior staff, and govt pressure, that the public health authorities’ approach to the pandemic – prioritizing mitigation over other concerns – was “The Science” . . .

38. Information that challenged that view, such as showing harms of vaccines, or that could be perceived as downplaying the risks of Covid, especially to children, was subject to moderation, and even suppression. No matter whether such views were correct or adopted abroad.

39. What might this pandemic and its aftermath have looked like if there had been a more open debate on Twitter and other social media platforms—not to mention the mainstream press—about the origins of Covid, about lockdowns, about the true risks of Covid in kids, and much more?

40. Thanks to @ShellenbergerMD, @lwoodhouse, @lhfang and the team @thefp for their help reporting this story.

41. An expanded version of this thread is available now @thefp!

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

— David Zweig

The thread includes 41 posts in total, with images of the evidence.

And there’s more to come:

In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. … The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.

— Justice Hugo L. Black, New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971)

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    December 26, 2022. Michael P Senger [@MichaelPSenger]. “THREAD – Nuremberg 2: What a Real Inquiry into the Response to COVID Would Look Like Given the Magnitude of the Harm That’s Been Done, the Public Deserves to Know Exactly Who Knew and Did What, When, and Why in the Days Leading up to the Lockdowns of Spring 2020 and beyond. 1/ Https://T.Co/RT49SopXba.” Tweet. Twitter. https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1607425359229890560.
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]]> Greg Rubini’s #FauciFiles is released on Twitter https://pandemictimeline.com/2023/01/greg-rubinis-faucifiles-is-released-on-twitter/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:01 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=12616 So we have the Pentagon linked to Metabiota, linked to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and John Kerry stepson, Christopher Heinz, all of them connected with Ukraine and with the 30 BioWeapon Labs. And the President of Ukraine, Zelensky, a puppet of George Soros and Klaus Schwab. All of them part of a plan to potentially…

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So we have the Pentagon linked to Metabiota, linked to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and John Kerry stepson, Christopher Heinz, all of them connected with Ukraine and with the 30 BioWeapon Labs. And the President of Ukraine, Zelensky, a puppet of George Soros and Klaus Schwab.

All of them part of a plan to potentially exterminate 150 million Russians?

We have John Brennan, Gen. James Clapper, Gen. Michael Hayden, Michael Morell, Leon Panetta conspiring to help Joe Biden become President.

is this the real reason why all those guys wanted Joe Biden to become President?
To cover up the tracks of the Pentagon and the CIA, and their dirty deeds in Ukraine?

Was also the Pentagon, together with the CIA, George Soros and the Democrats involved in the 2020 Election Fraud, to have Trump OUT and Biden IN?

It all lines up perfectly, if you ask me.

Is this the reason of the hysterical, racist anti-Russia propaganda screamed every single day by all the US and Western media? (which are all controlled by the CIA, by the way)

Is the real reason of the hysterical anti-Russia propaganda to cover up the extermination plan carried out by the 30 BioWeapon Labs in Ukraine, funded by the Pentagon and by Hunter Biden and Joe Biden?

— Greg Rubini

Since I originally wrote this post, I have figured out that this is NOT the #FauciFiles promised by Elon Musk.  I am debating whether to toss this post.  The thread strays too much into judgments, which is not my preferred way of presenting information on this site.  My preference is to present factual documents and articles and let the chips fall where they may.  I want my posts to be objective, not subjective.  Greg Rubini’s posts do present a lot of facts, but I would prefer to go straight to the facts and skip the hyperbole.  Much of the key information in the thread is already elsewhere on this site.

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]]> Alex Berenson contributes a Twitter File https://pandemictimeline.com/2023/01/alex-berenson-contributes-a-twitter-file/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:59 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=12508 On August 27, 2021, Dr. Scott Gottlieb – a Pfizer director with over 550,000 Twitter followers – saw a tweet he didn’t like, a tweet that might hurt sales of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines. — Alex Berenson The post goes on to recount Dr. Gottlieb’s attempts to censor COVID-19 posts on Twitter. Sources:

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On August 27, 2021, Dr. Scott Gottlieb – a Pfizer director with over 550,000 Twitter followers – saw a tweet he didn’t like, a tweet that might hurt sales of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines.

— Alex Berenson

The post goes on to recount Dr. Gottlieb’s attempts to censor COVID-19 posts on Twitter.

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    January 9, 2023. Alex Berenson [@AlexBerenson]. “1/ My First #TwitterFiles Report: How @scottgottliebmd – a Top Pfizer Board Member – Used the Same Twitter Lobbyist as the White House to Suppress Debate on Covid Vaccines, INCLUDING FROM A FELLOW HEAD OF @US_FDA! Thanks @elonmusk for Opening These Files. Https://T.Co/UbHlmtjELP.” Tweet. Twitter.
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    January 9, 2023. Alex Berenson. “From the Twitter Files: Pfizer Board Member Scott Gottlieb Secretly Pressed Twitter to Hide Posts Challenging His Company’s Massively Profitable Covid Jabs.” Substack newsletter. Unreported Truths.
    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board.
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Nancy Mace, R-SC:  Thank you, Mister Chairman.  The Twitter Files are not just about Hunter Biden’s laptop.  The Twitter Files make it apparent Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate COVID information.  Doctor Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford who once tweeted an article he wrote about natural immunity.  Thanks to Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files, some of his tweets were tagged with the label of trends blacklist.  Apparently, the views of a Stanford doctor are disinformation to you people.

I, along with many Americans, have long-term effects from COVID.  Not only was I a long hauler, but I have effects from the vaccine.  It wasn’t the first shot, but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma, that has never gone away since I have had the second shot.  I have tremors in my left hand, and I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain, and I’ve had a battery of tests.

I find it extremely alarming Twitter’s unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC.

I have great regrets about getting the shots because of these health issues that I now have, that I don’t think are ever going to go away, and I know that I’m not the only American who has those kinds of concerns.

Another example of what Twitter has done to censor folks is from Doctor Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard educated epidemiologist who once tweeted, “COVID vaccines are important for high risk people and their caretakers.  Those with prior natural infection do not need it, nor children.”  But Twitter Files revealed this tweet was deemed false information because it ran contrary to the CDC.

So my first question this morning of Ms. Gadde, may I ask of you, where did you go to medical school?

Vijaya Gadde:  I did not go to medical school.

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  I’m sorry?

Vijaya Gadde:  I did not go to medical school.

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  That’s what I thought.  Why do you think you or anyone else at Twitter has the medical expertise to censor a doctor’s expert opinion?

Vijaya Gadde:  Our policies regarding COVID were designed to protect individuals.   We were seeing …

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  You guys censored Harvard educated doctors, Stanford educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world, and you silenced those voices.

My next question is, the US government …  Oh, excuse me.  I have another chart I want to show you, Ms. Gadde.  I have another tweet by someone with a following of a full 18,000 followers.  This person put a chart from the CDC on Twitter.  It’s the CDC’s own data, so it’s accurate by your standards, and you all labeled this as misleading.  You’re not a doctor, right, Miss Gadde?

Vijaya Gadde:  No, I’m not.

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  OK.  What makes you think you or anyone else at Twitter has the medical expertise to censor actual accurate CDC data?

Vijaya Gadde:  I’m not familiar with this particular situation.

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  Yeah, I’m sure you’re not.  But this is what Twitter did: they labeled this as inaccurate.  It is the government’s own data.  It’s ridiculous that we’re even having to have this conversation today.  It’s not just about the laptop.  This is about medical advice that expert doctors were trying to give Americans because social media companies like Twitter were silencing their voices.

I have another question, my last one for you, Miss Gadde.  Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or censor certain tweets?  Yes or no?

Vijaya Gadde:  We have a program …

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  Did the government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets?  Yes or no?

Vijaya Gadde:  We received legal demands to remove content from the platform from the US government and the governments all over the world.  Those are published on a third-party website, and anyone can …

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  Thank God for Matt Taibbi.  Thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us and the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put real Americans’ lives in danger because they didn’t have that information.

I also want to thank one of my colleagues, Ro Khanna [D-CA], because as it turns out, censorship isn’t just an important issue to conservatives.  Some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle like Ro found this censorship very concerning and even wrote to you and the folks at Twitter that he was concerned about the First Amendment being censored.  So I want to thank him for speaking up and speaking out about this issue because this should not be a partisan issue.  This should be an issue that’s an American issue.

Mister Chairman, I would like to enter into the record, I ask unanimous consent, to enter into the record a Wall Street Journal article from December 9, 2022 by Justin Hart entitled “The Twitter Blacklisting of Jay Battacharia” into the record, please.

Mister Chairman:  Without objection, so ordered.

Nancy Mace, R-SC:  Thank you, and I yield back.

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