Social media companies shoot the messenger to stamp out purported COVID misinformation

“We need a bunch of group-thinking ideologues with limited scientific experience to police scientific disputes!” medical professor sarcastically writes of Big Tech censorship.

In their quest to purge purported COVID-19 misinformation from their platforms, social media companies are now shooting the messengers.

One of those messengers is suggesting he’ll take his tens of millions of listeners to a different social media platform in response to the censorship.

Twitter suspended a news clipping service for sharing a video of Rep. Andy Biggs on the Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle,” demanding that Grabien Media delete the tweet for violating its “misleading and potentially harmful information” policy.

The Arizona Republican claimed “Big Pharma” wasn’t interested in COVID “therapeutics” such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin because of “economic interests,” according to the tweet, which Twitter removed even as Grabien Media filed an appeal.

“Obviously, in this case, quoting an elected leader on an issue that matters to everyone is important and newsworthy, regardless of whether you agree,” Grabien founder Tom Elliott tweeted Friday, sharing the Twitter notice he received.
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Given his previous experience appealing a Twitter suspension for a “joke” about the late Gen. (ret.) Colin Powell, “I have no confidence in Twitter doing the right thing and acknowledging this tweet did not violate its terms & conditions,” he said.

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