Censorship: Twitter Takeover Totally Panics Political Regime of LeftLibDemSocMediaTechPol

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Wed Dec 28 20:35:13 PST 2022


https://www.theepochtimes.com/elon-musk-announces-new-twitter-policy-to-follow-and-question-science_4950190.html

Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Policy to Follow and Question Science

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Wednesday he is enacting a new
Twitter Policy related to post on the platform about science.

“New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily
includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Musk wrote.

No further details of the plan had been released, but The Epoch Times
reached out to Twitter for comment.

In a follow-up tweet below his original policy announcement, Musk said
“Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself
cannot be regarded as a scientist.”

Musk has released a trove of information since taking over the company
regarding Twitter’s suppression of certain information related to
COVID-19.

Musk said Twitter employees had a private group on Slack that was a
“fan club” of White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, The
Epoch Times reported. The employees “had an internal Slack channel
unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club,’” Musk wrote.
Epoch Times Photo (Sergei Elagin/Shutterstock)

Musk’s post noted that the Fauci Fan Club was set up despite
outstanding “glaring issues” regarding Fauci, including the question
of whether the White House adviser was untruthful when he denied that
U.S. federal money was used to fund risky “gain-of-function” research
at a Chinese lab at the center of speculation about the origins of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Alleged Twitter Suppression of Scientific Debate

Musk revealed in the Twitter Files—a collection of internal emails and
communications made public by Musk—the company suppressed early
treatment options for COVID-19, and vaccine safety concerns, Dr. Peter
McCullough said in an interview on Newsmakers by NTD and The Epoch
Times on Dec. 14.

“Twitter had become an incredibly biased and censored platform, where
the public knew they weren’t getting a fair, balanced set of
information on a whole variety of developments—including the early
treatment of SARS-COV2 infection and a balanced view of safety and
efficacy of the vaccines,” McCullough said.

McCullough said he believed he was censored and finally suspended for
sharing scientific “abstracts and manuscripts,” which he believed
didn’t fit the accepted political view. McCullough said he wasn’t the
only doctor targeted by the company’s censorship.

Musk lifted the suspensions of McCullough and mRNA vaccine technology
contributor Dr. Robert Malone—suspended from Twitter in 2021 after
criticizing the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines—after completing
his Twitter purchase.

McCullough said when sites like Twitter posted COVID-19 warnings or
labels a post “misinformation,” it amounted to government censorship
and control.

“Facebook, Instagram, and the other platforms. … Anytime a message is
posted, and it says, ‘See the COVID information center,’ or it labels
it ‘COVID misinformation,’ that actually indicates that there’s
government interference. There’s government censorship going on,”
McCullough asserted.

Musk’s latest policy announcement about questioning science while also
following it mirrors what McCullough said about advertisements on
Twitter regarding vaccine efficacy and safety.

“So, when Americans were seeing advertisements that said ‘safe and
effective,’ of course, immediately, we were jumping and making the
case based on the peer-reviewed literature that that’s not correct.”
Elon’s Push for Transparency

Since taking over Twitter, Musk has made transparency a top priority,
including revealing prior Twitter policies. As part of his
transparency push, he released secret emails and discussions about
shadow-banning or removing accounts that didn’t toe the party line.

As part of its reporting, The Epoch Times sought comment from the DOJ
and FBI on the Twitter Files revelations and their involvement with
social media companies.

The FBI National Press Office stated, “The FBI regularly engages with
private sector entities to provide information specific to identified
foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or
criminal activities.

“It is not based on the content of any particular message or
narrative. Private sector entities independently make decisions about
what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their
customers after the FBI has notified them.”


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