Federal Government Paid Media Outlets to Promote the COVID Vaccine
After releasing my three-part series earlier this year showing how multiple media outlets refused to platform dissent on the COVID vaccine, I was asked on multiple podcasts why this was the case. Ideological groupthink, fear of exacerbating institutional distrust, and financial motives were on my list of potential explanations, but I did not have concrete evidence. […]
COVID Vaccine Skepticism Censored After Virality Project Complained to Social Media
A Stanford University group helped the United States government censor COVID dissidents, then they lied about it. The Twitter files published by journalist Matt Taibbi in March revealed the Stanford’s Internet Observatory initiative, also known as the Virality Project, pushed platforms to treat user concerns about vaccine mandates as disinformation and to consider stories of […]
The COVID Twitter Files Drop: Protecting Fauci While Censoring The Truth w/Matt Taibbi
On February 5, 2021, just after Joe Biden took office, Stanford [University] wrote to Twitter to discuss the Virality Project. By the 17th, Twitter agreed to join and got its first weekly report on the “anti-vax disinformation,” which contained numerous true stories. Now, the fist question on everyone’s mind is why would Twitter even accept […]
Twitter Pressured to Label COVID-19 Facts as “Misinformation”
In March of 2020, the global social media platform Twitter implemented a COVID-19 “misinformation” policy that would add labels and warning messages to Tweets Twitter administrators deemed to be “misinformation.” Under this effort to censor certain information about COVID-19 and COVID vaccines that does not align with government policy, tweets could also be removed altogether […]
