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Almost every #conspiracy theory about Twitter turned out to be true
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"To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true.” - Elon Musk

Twitter Files expose government influence on suppressing COVID messages that contradicted WH
Reporting cited numerous actions taken against accounts that posted views and data that contradicted CDC

The latest reporting on documents referred to as the Twitter Files reveals efforts from both the Trump and Biden administrations to suppress ideas on social media related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Free Press writer David Zweig cited "[i]nternal files" from Twitter that showed how the social media giant "rigged the COVID debate" at the behest of the federal government.

"The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19," Zweig wrote.

Zweig claimed that the documents showed that both the current and previous administrations "directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes."

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has responded to a post on the platform that appeared to push back on claims that outgoing White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his post as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has never been untruthful or dishonest.

Entrepreneur and moderate Republican backer Marc Andreessen posted a tweet that contained a screengrab supportive of Fauci which said it is neither “accurate or fair” to claim that Fauci “has ever lied,” to which Musk posted a link to a congressional .pdf file of a Newsweek story headlined, “Fauci Was ‘Untruthful’ To Congress About Wuhan Lab Research, New Documents Appear to Show.”

The September 2021 report noted: “The National Institute of Health (NIH) has denied funding studies that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans after it was accused of doing so following the release of research proposals. The documents were obtained and released by The Intercept on Tuesday after it launched a FOIA lawsuit. Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, told Newsweek these documents show “unequivocally” that NIH grants were used to fund controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Insitute of Virology in China—something U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied.”

“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement in Wuhan are untruthful,” Ebright said.

“Multiple sections of the grant proposals and grant progress reports make it clear that the grants funded gain-of-function research of concern in Wuhan,” Ebright told Newsweek last year, citing the documents obtained by The Intercept.

The New York Post reported:

Musk tweeted the claim in a thread that was highly critical of Fauci, who was accused by the mogul of lying about so-called “gain-of-function” research that some suggest may have played a role in the spread of the coronavirus.

“Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club,’” Musk tweeted late Tuesday. He did not elaborate as to how many employees participated in the Slack channel.

During the pandemic, Twitter — under the old management team — regularly censored coronavirus-related content that ran afoul of information being put out by Fauci and federal health agencies. Some users who routinely posted counter-research and information, like Alex Berenson, were eventually booted off the platform, though he as since been reinstated after he filed a lawsuit against the platform.

Perhaps with an eye towards those incidents, Musk sparked a strong reaction this week after he announced the social media platform would promote “reasoned” skepticism of scientific data.

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

Writer Katherine Brodsky tweeted in response, “Also known as the scientific method,” to which Musk replied with a “bullseye” emoji, suggesting he agreed with her response and thought it was accurate.