Twitter Files 🔎: Newly released internal Twitter communications provide details about the platform's communications with an academic project that advocated censoring topics deemed COVID-19-related misinformation during the pandemic.
The social platform agreed to receive communications from the Virality Project, a Stanford-based coalition of researchers and analysts who advocated online censorship of certain claims and narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
15. In one email to Twitter, VP addressed what it called the “vaccine passport narrative,” saying “concerns” over such programs “have driven a larger anti-vaccination narrative about the loss of rights and freedoms.”— Matt Taibbi March 17, 2023 The Virality Project also said it was"honing in" on an"increasingly popular narrative about natural immunity" in a June 2021 email, a reference to people developing immunity through exposure to COVID-19 rather than vaccines.
Taibbi described the project's collaboration with Twitter as an"Orwellian proof-of-concept" of government, academics, and corporations working together to"control political messaging."
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