BREAKING: Twitter Files expose government influence on suppressing COVID messages that contradicted WH
The New York Post's Jon Levine examines how the FBI and America's media ecosystem were involved in the Hunter Biden saga on 'The Evening Edit.'While Twitter did not always comply with the White House's wishes, Zweig wrote, "Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House."
"As a result," he continued, "legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing." One example Zweig cited was Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Dr. Martin Kulldorff, who had responded to a question about vaccines by saying that while older, at-risk people and their caretakers should get them, children and people who had already been infected with COVID-19 did not need to.
Zweig showed a screenshot of an internal Twitter email that discussed taking action against Kulldorff for spreading "false information about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, which goes against CDC guidelines." As a result, likes and replies were disabled on the post, and the post itself was labeled "Misleading.
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