Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said the blacklist was intended to keep alternative scientific opinions about COVID lockdowns from reaching the American public.
The second installment of Elon Musk's so-called "Twitter Files" shed light on the company's practices of secretly "blacklisting" certain tweets.Elon Musk to Twitter’s headquarters,Bhattacharya learned he was blacklisted at the request of"unspecified agents" – either inside or outside of Twitter – but it is unclear who the agents were.
Bhattacharya is involved in a case with the Attorneys General offices in Missouri and Louisiana as well as the New Civil Liberties Alliance. The case, Bhattacharya claimed, found that government actors were in contact with Twitter and told social media platforms who and what to censor regarding COVID information.
"It was a policy designed to make sure the American public did not hear that there were other alternative scientific views than just lockdown, lockdown, lockdown," he said.
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