EXPOSED： Censorship and ＂The COVID Blacklist＂
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Summary
If you spoke the truth about COVID-19 at any point from 2010 to 2022, there's a good chance Big Tech companies suspended you for it. Sometimes, scientific studies proved you right. Sometimes the social media giants themselves admitted that you were right after the fact. But in almost every case, the big tech giants got to decide what you could and could not say about the most far-reaching political issue in American life. And now that they ve been caught, they re trying to memory hole the whole thing.
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If you spoke the truth about COVID-19 at any point from 2020 to 2022,
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there's a good chance big tech companies suspended you for it, for spreading misinformation.
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Sometimes the social media giants themselves admitted that you were right after the fact.
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The big tech giants got to decide what you could and could not say about the most far-reaching political issue in American life.
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In fact, the biggest purveyors of misinformation were the big tech companies themselves.
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And now that they've been caught, they're trying to memory hole the whole thing.
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On August 28, 2021, Twitter announced that it had permanently suspended former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson from the platform
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for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules.
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In the tweet that finally got him booted, Berenson expressed skepticism of the COVID vaccines.
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For that, the reporter was permanently kicked out of the public square.
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On July 6, 2022, Berenson re-emerged on Twitter.
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In the intervening 11 months, Berenson had sued Twitter in federal court,
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claiming that Twitter had violated his First Amendment rights,
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engaged in false advertising, and violated California's common carrier law.
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and admit that the reporter should not have been suspended at the time for saying what he said.
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And the most obvious reason he shouldn't have been banned is that what he said was true.
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Twitter had even tacitly admitted that what he said was true.
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Until December 15, 2021, Twitter's COVID-19 misleading information policy prohibited false or misleading claims
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that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus or symptoms or immunity to unvaccinated people.
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But people who had received the vaccine could, and in fact did, spread the virus to plenty of people,
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So, on December 16, Twitter quietly changed the rule to ban false or misleading claims
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that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the vaccine or symptoms or immunity to unvaccinated people.
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The COVID vaccines do not stop infection or transmission.
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But Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky all said that they did.
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You're not going to, you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.
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When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected.
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Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick.
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And they censored countless people, including journalists, including elected politicians,
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including scientists, who dared to contradict the politically correct narrative of the entrenched powers that be.
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Now, they want to sweep all that censorship, all that bullying,
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all that misinformation from the big tech platforms under the rug,
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In October of 2020, Twitter locked the account of Scott Atlas,
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a top science advisor to then-President Donald Trump,
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for 12 hours over Atlas's claim that face masks didn't actually stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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Atlas buttressed his claim by citing examples of places with widespread mask enforcement
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when it suspended Rand Paul, not only a U.S. senator, but a physician himself,
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for expressing doubt as to the medical efficacy of cloth face masks.
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Senator Paul backed up his skepticism by quoting peer-reviewed articles on the inefficacy of the masks.
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Senator Paul and Atlas might as well have cited Dr. Fauci himself.
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Dr. Fauci, who, in the early days of the pandemic, when cases were surging,
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Right now, people should not be walking, there's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
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wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better,
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but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
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Fauci later came to reverse his position amid political pressure the very same month.
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But it turns out Fauci actually had it right the first time.
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In a quiet update to its mask policy on January 14, 2022,
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in particular the cloth masks that so many people wore throughout the pandemic,
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did not provide especially effective protection against the virus.
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YouTube prohibited claims that masks do not play a role
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in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.
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Today, YouTube no longer even mentions masks in its policy.
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If you don't want to lose your mind during this election,
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Every day, you will reflect on what it means to follow God,
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specifically as a citizen of the United States.
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Throughout the week, you'll be joined by different guests,
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who both work at the intersection of news and faith.
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Then, Father Josh Johnson, Father Dave Pivanka,
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and Sister Norma Pimentel will also be joining to guide you in prayer.
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will help us remember that we are all God's children.
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Dan Bongino, one of the most prominent conservative broadcasters in the country,
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lost his own YouTube channel, with its nearly 900,000 subscribers,
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and for the same reason, mocking the efficacy of the masks.
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he didn't just lose access to his channel for a week.
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Now, had Dan uploaded his offending video today,
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he almost certainly would still have a channel,
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since YouTube no longer prohibits calling the masks useless.
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the masks are and always were pretty much useless.
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at a time that YouTube called it misinformation,
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months before it stopped calling it misinformation,
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Rand Paul is not the only Republican senator suspended by YouTube
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for spreading so-called misinformation that turned out to be true.
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Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson received a one-week suspension
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for citing the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System
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and discussing vaccine-related injuries and deaths.
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How can you help them fully recover if you're not willing to admit
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it was also pretty much universally acknowledged to be correct.
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the FDA and CDC recommended a nationwide pause in its distribution.
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the FDA considered the clotting risk to be so significant
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that it banned the shot for children and teenagers
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were medically ineligible to take one of the other vaccines.
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and Director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
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If we see deaths and there is an alternative vaccine
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to make a statement on the product's fact sheet
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the journal Science announced in January of 2022
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that coronavirus vaccines may cause long COVID-like symptoms
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and the risk from the mRNA vaccines of heart problems,
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has been well-documented and acknowledged by the FDA.
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As YouTube perceives that expert consensus to change,
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YouTube chose to articulate sweeping scientific claims
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YouTube prohibited claims that COVID-19 vaccines
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are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
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as even the public health authorities had come to admit.
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do not reduce the risk of serious illness or death,
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in violation of YouTube's misinformation policy.
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It didn't just prevent professional content creators
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It stopped news outlets from reporting the truth.
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It stopped public officials from debating public policy.
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from making their voices heard in the political process.
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and spread of COVID-19 among vaccinated people.
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But the first part turned out to be correct, too.
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the mRNA technology used in the COVID vaccines,