In the latest Twitter files installment, New York-based reporter David Zweig shared how the United States government pressured the social media platform to silence and suppress users spreading information about COVID that did not align with the establishment’s narrative.
According to Zweig, Twitter participated in rigging the COVID debate by “censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy,” “discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed,” and “suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*.”
Internal Twitter files revealed that the U.S. government requested that the social media site elevate COVID content that corroborated its stance on vaccine efficacy while suppressing dissenting information.
Zweig wrote that both the Trump and the Biden administrations pushed Twitter to moderate content.
Meeting notes revealed that Trump’s former…
