The latest installment of the Twitter Files has dropped, and it is astonishing, indeed.
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi examined Stanford University’s ‘Virality Project,’ which was ostensibly meant to combat “disinformation.” Actually, however, it appears to have targeted COVID content that ran counter to the establishment narrative.
According to its website, the objective of the Virality Project, which was launched in May 2020, was “to detect, analyze, and respond to incidents of COVID-19 vaccine disinformation across online ecosystems, and ultimately mitigate the impact of narratives which would otherwise undermine the public’s confidence in the safety of these processes in the United States.”…Taibbi began the Twitter Files by attacking what he called “The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine” by citing its weekly briefings, one from June 2021 saying Spring 2020 emails made public from Dr. Anthony Fauci about gain of function research being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology “has been used to exacerbate distrust in Dr. Fauci and in US public health institutions” and will “foment Increased distrust in Fauci’s expert guidance.”
There was a long list of narrative violations identified by the Virality Project as ‘disinformation,’ especially those that targeted former White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In reality, the Virality Project was in a public-private partnership in the form of a censorship machine.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, whose lawsuit is shattering Biden administration coverups, described the program: Federal health officials in the Surgeon General’s Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Health and Human Services collaborated in a “censorship enterprise called the Virality Project, which procures the censorship of enormous quantities of First Amendment-protected speech.”Disinformation warriors worked overtime to suppress “false” claims about the side effects of COVID vaccine, especially the true claims. Since the Food and Drug Administration officially (and speedily) approved COVID vaccines, any reports of side effects were automatically disinformation.The Virality Project recommended that social-media companies suppress “stories of true vaccine side effects” and “true posts which could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy.” The project “routinely framed real testimonials about [vaccine] side effects as misinformation, from ‘true stories’ of blood clots from AstraZeneca vaccines to a New York Times story about vaccine recipients who contracted the blood disorder thrombocytopenia.”
Twitter was one of six social media platforms that came under scrutiny.
The Virality Project also targeted discussions about vaccine passports, warning that such posts “have driven a larger anti-vaccination narrative about the loss of rights and freedoms.”
“Disinformation” supported by the Virality Project included assertions that breakthrough covid infections are “extremely rare events.”
The template that the Virality Project used to screen out counter-narrative posts was entirely created by politically connected and compliant “experts.”
The government was a key partner in Virality Project suppression efforts.
Taibbi reached a chilling conclusion to his thread.
According to its website, the Virality Project is a “coalition of research entities focused on supporting real-time information exchange between the research community, public health officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, and social media platforms.” Given the recent treatment of a conservative judge at Stanford University, one can reasonably assume that its participants are unwilling to entertain any sensible argument and take great pleasure in obliterating opponents. This is not a good look for any institution that presents itself as promoting good science.
I am grateful that the truth of the “disinformation” campaign has been revealed. I hope this will help the effort to get all the science related to covid and the vaccines published and available so everyone can make fully informed decisions about the health risks and precautions that are pertinent to them.
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