Commentary
The “Twitter Files” have exposed numerous contacts between U.S. government officials and Twitter and requests for suppression of accounts or content: notably, in the context of alleged COVID-19 “disinformation.” But what they have not revealed is that there was in fact a formal government program explicitly dedicated to “Fighting COVID-19 Disinformation” in which Twitter, as well as all other major social media platforms, were enrolled.
As part of this program, the platforms were submitting monthly (later bi-monthly) reports to the government on their censorship efforts. Below is a picture of an archive of the “Fighting COVID-19 Disinformation” reports. I did not have to hack into the intranet of the U.S. government to find them. All I had to do was look on the public website of the European Commission. For the government in question is not, after all, the U.S. government, but the European Commission….