If you spoke the truth about COVID-19 at any point from 2020 to 2022,

there's a good chance big tech companies suspended you for it,

for spreading misinformation.

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, it didn't matter.

The big tech giants got to decide what you could and could not say about the most far-reaching political issue in American life.

In fact, the biggest purveyors of misinformation were the big tech companies themselves.

And now that they've been caught, they're trying to memory hole the whole thing.

Fortunately, we have the receipts.

On August 28, 2021, Twitter announced that it had permanently suspended former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson from the platform for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules.

In the tweet that finally got him booted, Berenson expressed skepticism of the COVID vaccines.

Quote, it doesn't stop infection, he claimed, or transmission.

Don't think of it as a vaccine.

Think of it, at best, as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side

effect profile that must be dosed in advance of illness.

And we want to mandate it? Insanity. For that, the reporter was permanently kicked out of the

public square. Until he wasn't. On July 6, 2022, Berence re reemerged on Twitter. In the intervening 11 months,

Berenson had sued Twitter in federal court, claiming that Twitter had violated his First

Amendment rights, engaged in false advertising, and violated California's common carrier law.

For the first time ever in this sort of suit,

Twitter chose to settle out of court,

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