Some may not realize the miracle to liberty of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Until then a far left, perhaps marxist, site where those who wished to destroy America shared their contempt and plans to do just that believing these would never come to light. Such is the Stanford University Virality Project. Thanks to Twitter File confessions and Matt Taibbi who assembled these in 27 threads, we can cover this story. All quotes are from his threads.
In our society one can believe anything he wishes and recruit whomever to believe the same—that is free speech. But when these purposely interface with the government even becoming a political arm of the government banning any Covid view contrary to their narrative and people die, because of the censorship of truth, this is quite different. Thousands endured this oppression including many frontline doctors, and other experts in the medical profession. If you were banned on Twitter for disinformation on Covid here’s why?
The Stanford Virality Project, founded in February 2021 to work with government, launched “a pan-industry monitoring plan for Covid related content,” said differently, “it was a sweeping cross platform effort to monitor billions of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies and a slew of (often state funded) NGOs.” If they controlled everything said or written about Covid it would be anything they said that its was. Frightening!!! NONE OF THESE SELF-APPOINTED COVID SPEECH POLICE HAD HEALTH EXPERTISE.
At least six major internet platforms were on board” doing the same including: “Twitter, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Medium, TikTok and Pinterest” these “daily sending millions of items for review.” The Virality Project “knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion.”
“This story is important for two reasons. One, as Orwellian proof of concept, the Vitality Project, was a smash success. Government, academia and an oligarchy of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging…. Two, it accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of the facts.” It also hid “stories of true vaccine side effects as actionable content,” presumably until everyone on the planet was vaccinated and no one could do anything about it.
The plan began on “February 5, 2021, just after Joe Biden took office. Stanford wrote to Twitter to discuss the Virality Project.” In that meeting “Twitter agreed to join and got it’s first weekly report on ‘anti-vax disinformation,’ which contained numerous true stories.” February 22 2021, “Stanford welcomed Twitter veterans like Yoel Roth and Brian Clarke, instructing them on how to join the group JIRA system.”
By early March the “notification process” to platforms was in place and in addition to the top platforms previously mentioned the Virality Project was gaining “visibility to alternative platforms such as Gab, Parlor, Telegram and Gettr—near total surveillance of the social media landscape.” Also, by this date “Twitter personnel were aping VP language, describing ‘campaigns against vaccine passports,’ ‘fear of mandatory immunizations’ and misuse of official reporting tools as potential violations.” Everyone musk ask, “Was I conditioned too?”
By August Twitter's internal guidance of COVID-19 required a story be “demonstrably false” or contain an “assertion of fact” to be actioned, but the Virality Project, in partnership with CDC, pushed different standards.” Twitter was then told that “true stories that could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy,” including things like celebrity deaths after vaccine or the closure of Central New York school due to reports a post vaccine illness, should be considered standard vaccine misinformation on your platform.”
This was followed by an email to Twitter addressing “the ‘vaccine passport narrative,’ saying ‘concerns’ over such programs ‘have driven a larger anti-vaccination narrative about the loss of rights and freedoms.’ This was framed as a ‘misinformation’ event.” Next to be called misinformation, and thus banned, “were ‘real testimonials about side effects’ from ‘true stories’ of blood clots from AstraZeneca vaccines to a New York Times story about vaccine recipients who contracted the blood disorder thrombocytopenia.”
Even asking questions about covid needed censorship because they viewed it as a “tactic ‘commonly used by spreaders of disinformation.’ It also described a Worldwide Rally for freedom planned over Telegram as a disinformation event.” Soon every thing was reportable and thus censored. “Platforms were encouraged ‘to target people, not posts,’ especially repeat offenders and ‘hone in’ on the ‘increasingly popular narrative about natural immunity.’”
They were censoring the doctors and medical experts that were putting out real information letting the population know there were real problems with the injections. It has been said that in time more people will die from the COVID-19 injections and boosters than actually died from the virus alone. How many people would have been spared death or vaccine injury without government mandates and the Great COVID-19 Lie Machine—in time perhaps millions.
Dr. Harold W. Peasearold Pease is an expert on the United States Consitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years.
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