Twitter's suppression of speech compounded COVID ills, writes MTMehan.
’s release of the"Twitter Files," we see those in control of Twitter during and after the pandemic were determined to privilege ideas and arguments they liked and diminish voices they disliked — voices such as that of my Hillsdale College colleague Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Mistreating him and other prominent voices, Twitter employees routinely“de-amplify” lists, limited the visibility of entire accounts, and kept unfavorable tweets and topics from trending.
Times of emergency are precisely when we want the public to know they can trust that media and public forums such as Twitter are being honest with the public. Instead, they misrepresented the debate to us, putting a thousand secret thumbs on the scales we weighed as we deliberated the science and policy of the pandemic. We were told that everyone had our best interests in mind so we could answer the difficult questions of the pandemic together. But that was a lie.
Who knows how many doomed businesses could have reopened earlier, preventing the shuttering of their doors forever?It takes a while for institutions to build up requisite trust with the public, but they can lose it overnight.
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