Commentary
“​I had always thought a primary job of the press was to be skeptical of power—especially the power of the government. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, I and so many others found that the legacy media had shown itself to largely operate as a messaging platform for our public health institutions. Those institutions operated in near-total lockstep, in part by purging internal dissidents and discrediting outside experts.”
So begins David Zweig’s report, the tenth in the Twitter Files series. His report shows how Twitter, like other social media platforms and the legacy press, seemed to promote content that reinforced the establishment narrative. At the urging of the White House and government agencies, Twitter suppressed views and even scientific evidence that ran to the contrary….