A Stanford University professor who was reportedly placed on a Twitter “blacklist” after issuing warnings about COVID-19-related lockdowns said Thursday that “unspecified agents” requested that he be censored.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at the prestigious private research university, told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that he only joined Twitter in August 2021 to share his view that lockdowns and school closures wouldn’t work.
“I was put on a trend blacklist the moment I joined,” Bhattacharya told Carlson on Thursday night, referring to internal files that were released to journalists by new Twitter chief executive Elon Musk. “What that means is that I write a tweet, my followers see the tweet, but the trend blacklist makes sure that people outside of my followers don’t see the tweet.”…