Twitter Files Reveal Details of Covid Censorship

How the ‘War on Misinformation’ Propelled the Covid Cataclysm

Today, reporter David Zweig published another installment of The Twitter Files, this time focused on government and social media attempts to silence dissent over Covid-19. Because we’ve got so many new subscribers, we are republishing our February 4, 2022, article:

How the ‘War on Misinformation’ Propelled the Covid Cataclysm

That article attempted to demonstrate why (1) ‘misinformation’ is such a flawed concept and (2) censorship is so devastating. The Twitter Files have helpfully revealed the internal details of government and social media censorship. Too many, however, still do not grasp how censorship not only damages individual speakers, but that it also damages society through what Jonathan Haidt calls “structural stupidity.”

As Zweig concluded in his investigation:

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19. Inevitably, dissident yet legitimate content was labeled as misinformation, and the accounts of doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.