- Twitter suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.
- The Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s content according to their wishes.
- Twitter acted as a kind of FBI subsidiary, re-writing the platform’s policies on the fly to accommodate political bias and pressure.
- Twitter suppressed views and even scientific evidence that ran to the contrary.
- Bots and contractors were used to moderate content, leading to a significant error rate.
- Higher level employees at Twitter chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, and determined suspensions.
- Content that was contrarian but true, and the people who conveyed that content, were still subject to getting flagged and suppressed.
- Twitter propped up the official government line that prioritizing mitigation over other concerns was the best approach to the pandemic.
- If Twitter had allowed the kind of open forum for debate that it claimed to believe in, could any of this have turned out differently?
Click HERE for original. Published December 26, 2022
