Biden admin pushed to bar Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation,’ files show

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The Biden White House pressured Twitter to both “elevate” and “suppress” purported COVID-19 “misinformation” — but ended up “censoring info that was …

Berenson responded by suing Twitter, forcing the release of internal communications that showed the White House had pressured the company to squash his account.– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine,” Berenson had tweeted.

As recently as this month, Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s Head of US Public Policy released a summary of meetings with the White House detailing its alleged pressure campaign, according to Zweig. Culbertson said in her notes that the administration was “very angry” that Twitter had not taken more aggressive action in silencing vaccine critics and wanted the company to do more, files showed.

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