How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

A face mask is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange on May 26, 2020. (Johannes Eisele via Getty Images)

The platform suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.

by David Zwelg

By the time reporter David Zweig got to the 10th floor conference room at Twitter Headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco, the story of the Twitter Files was already international news. Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Leighton Woodhouse, Abigail Shrier, Lee Fang and I had revealed evidence of hidden blacklists of Twitter users; the way Twitter acted as a kind of FBI subsidiary; and how company executives rewrote the platform’s policies on the fly to accommodate political bias and pressure.

What we had yet to crack was the story of Covid.

David has spent three years reporting on Covid—specifically the underlying science, or lack thereof, behind many of our nation’s policies. For years he had noticed and criticized a bias not only in the mainstream media’s coverage of the pandemic, but also in the way it was presented on platforms like Twitter. 

We couldn’t think of anyone better to tackle this story. — BW (Bari Weiss)

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1 comment
  • The Covid ScamDemic was engineered from the get-go to “justify” mail-in voting so the
    lefties and RINOs could steal the election from Trump and other Republicans. You notice how the flu seemed to disappear once that evil Covid came onto the scene.