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"Deeply Sinister": Big Pharma Bullied Twitter To Censor Cheap Vaccine Demands

Today's Twitter Files drop contains several notable pieces of evidence.

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1615008625575202818
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/
https://twitter.com/stephanieseneff/status/1432026270854901760
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1615050885888983040

First, that lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry launched a
'massive lobbying blitz to crush any effort to share patents/IP for
new covid-related medicine," according to The Intercept's Lee Fang. As
part of this effort, lobbying group BIO "wrote to the newly elected
Biden admin, demanding the U.S. gov sanction any country attempting to
violate patent rights and create generic low cost covid medicine or
vaccines."

Of note, Pfizer and BioNTech raked in $37 billion in revenue in 2021
alone from the COVID-19 vaccine, while Moderna made $17.7 billion the
same year (and has recently announced a plan to hike the price of the
Covid-19 vaccine by approximately 400%).

BioNTech, which developed the Pfizer vaccine, "reached out to Twitter
to request that Twitter directly censor users tweeting at them to ask
for generic low cost vaccines."

    5. That brings us to Twitter. The global lobbying blitz includes
direct pressure on social media. BioNTech, which developed Pfizer's
vaccine, reached out to Twitter to request that Twitter directly
censor users tweeting at them to ask for generic low cost vaccines.
pic.twitter.com/6cVIRcUDZV
    — Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023

According to Fang, "Twitter's reps responded quickly to the pharma
request," while "A lobbyist in Europe asked the content moderation
team to monitor the accounts of Pfizer, AstraZeneca & of activist
hashtags like #peoplesvaccine."

Meanwhile, the "fake accounts" flagged by the pharmaceutical companies
for action were real people - one of whom Fang spoke with on the
phone.

    8. It's not clear what actions Twitter ultimately took on this
particular request. Several Twitter employees noted in subsequent
messages that none of this activism constituted abuse. But the company
continued monitoring tweets.
    — Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023

"For more than two years, a global movement has been speaking out
against pharmaceutical greed and demanding that everyone, everywhere
has the tools to combat pandemics," said Maaza Seyoum, a campaigner
for the People’s Vaccine Alliance. "Whatever nasty tricks companies
and governments pull," she continued, "we cannot and will not be
silenced."

Second, 'Pfizer & Moderna's lobbying group, BIO, fully funded a
special content moderation campaign designed by a contractor called
Public Good Projects (PGP), which worked w/Twitter to set content
moderation rules around covid "misinformation."' according to Fang.

BIO funded the PGP campaign, "Stronger,"  to the tune of $1.275
million. Its focus? Helping Twitter 'create content moderation bots,'
selecting which public health accounts would be verified, and helping
to crowdsource content takedowns.

Of note, the Moderna/Pfizer-funded campaign included regular emails to
Twitter officals with takedown and verification requests.

"Here's an example of those types of emails that went straight to
Twitter's lobbyists and content moderators. Many focused on
@zerohedge, which was suspended."

Fang includes a screencap of an email with two excel spreadsheets
containing said requests.

    13. Notably, this massive push to censor and label covid misinfo
never applied to drug companies. When big pharma wildly exaggerated
the risks of creating low-cost generic covid vaccines, Stronger did
nothing. The rules applied only to critics of industry.
https://t.co/FTzQsGKM9i
    — Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023

>From Fang's Intercept piece, below is one of the flagged tweets in
question - which links to a ZeroHedge article aggregated from
NakedCapitalism, and which logically posits; "if a vaccinated person
and an unvaccinated person have roughly the same capacity to carry,
shed and transmit the virus, particularly in its Delta form, what
difference does implementing a vaccination passport actually make to
the spread of the virus?"

    "if a vaccinated person and an unvaccinated person have roughly
the same capacity to carry, shed and transmit the virus, particularly
in its Delta form, what difference does implementing a vaccination
passport actually make to the spread of the
virus?"https://t.co/HNiND8uInP
    — Stephanie Seneff (@stephanieseneff) August 29, 2021

"To try and stifle digital dissent during a pandemic, when tweets and
emails are some of the only forms of protest available to those locked
in their homes, is deeply sinister," said Nick Dearden, director of
Global Justice Now.

More on one of the people behind this effort, courtesy of Twitter user
@TexasLindsay_

    2. The woman advocating for the censorship of inconvenient truths
at the behest of her funders rife with COI’s is Savannah Knell, MPH
MSSP, the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at The Public Good
Projects (PGP). pic.twitter.com/vkdUaAt5xQ
    — TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 16, 2023

    4. Knell claims to have extensive experience in Public Health
Comm. & Social Marketing. And aims to “largely focus on managing the
development & execution of strategically targeted & tailored behavior
change campaigns with an eye toward health equity.”
pic.twitter.com/2N7yFsBGsn
    — TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 16, 2023

"To translate the above into layman’s terms she is a narrative
enforcer. She’s funded by Big Pharma and aided by Big Brother to be
the ministry of truth. She aims to create social norms by means of
censorship and propaganda. She wants to tell you & I—how/what to say
and think."

Meanwhile...

    *PFIZER JUMPS AS MUCH AS 6.8% TO RECORD DEFYING MARKET ROUT

    behold Pfizer McPfizerface pic.twitter.com/hCZwT0DAW6
    — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 26, 2021