Lawyer up @twitter and @cdc. @America1stLegal obtains emails between CDC director of digital media Carol Crawford and @Twitter execs on how to suppress free speech. Examples in thread.
— Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MdBreathe) July 28, 2022
(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention colluded with Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter in 2021 to censor so-called “vaccine misinformation” on social media, according to a press release from the America First Legal Foundation.
The AFL used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain nearly 300 pages of communications between the CDC and Big Tech firms, which reveal government officials providing Facebook and Twitter with lists of social media posts to remove and accounts to suspend.
In a typical message, Carol Crawford, Digital Media Branch Chief at the CDC, sent Twitter’s Senior Manager of Public Policy a chart of tweets that she deemed to be “misinfo.”
“We wanted to point out two issues that we are seeing a great deal of misinfo about — vaccine shedding and microchips,” Crawford wrote. “The below are just some example posts.”
Crawford went on to encourage Twitter to attend a “BOLO” (“be on the look,” according to the AFL) “misinformation meeting” in which the CDC would help social media companies determine where to focus their censoring energy.
“These explosive smoking-gun documents . . . conclusively demonstrate that Big Tech has unlawfully colluded with the federal government to silence, censor, and suppress Americans’ free speech and violate their First Amendment rights,” AFL president Stephen Miller said in a statement.
In a Substack post commenting on the CDC’s document dump, Dr. Robert Malone — the inventor of mRNA technology who was banned by Twitter for telling the truth about vaccines — suggested that Americans harmed by the vaccine could use the documents to sue the federal government.
“If you or someone that you know has experienced these or other vaccine-associated adverse events within 60 days of receiving an injection of these products, you should know that the US Government acted in collusion with Big Tech to prevent informed consent about these risks prior to administering the products,” Malone wrote.
