12/10/2022
The Twitter Blacklisting of Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, was a latecomer to Twitter, joining in the summer of 2021.
In his first tweet, he linked to a recent article he had written that discussed age-based mortality risks and natural immunity, among other topics.
His main message was powerful and contrary to Covid policies enacted across the country.
“Mass testing is an insidious form of lockdown by stealth,” he wrote. Many Americans, especially parents of school-age children, would agree. But it’s possible that many on Twitter didn’t see his message.
This week Twitter released a set of internal emails and documents from before Elon Musk’s takeover of the company in October. One of the revelations was that Dr. Bhattacharya, among many others, had been censored and shadow-banned (tweets hidden in various ways) by Twitter.
Bhattacharya was secretly blacklisted because he “argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children,” and was thus unable to trend on the platform, Weiss reported in a Twitter thread.
The medical professional spoke with Laura Ingraham about the revelation Thursday night.
On “The Ingraham Angle,” Bhattacharya said the suppression of his voice, which questioned much of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s guidance and the COVID-19 policies, ultimately harmed data, children and the American public.
He believes he was essentially silenced because the opposing “arguments were not strong enough to survive the light of day.”
“If we had an open discussion, Laura, the schools would not have closed in the fall of 2020.
If we had an open discussion, the lockdowns would have been lifted much earlier because the data and evidence behind them was so bad,” he said on the show.
Source ( Matt Taibbi )
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