Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Berenson After Viral COVID Tweets
- Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Berenson After Viral COVID Tweets
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
It was never a matter of if, but when. Science journalist Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter, just one day after a viral series of tweets spotlighting an Israeli preprint study which showed that natural immunity from a prior Covid-19 infection is 13 times more effective than vaccines against the delta variant.
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“The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules,” a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News. The last tweet he posted, meanwhile, accurately noted that the vaccine “doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission.”
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“Don’t think of it as a vaccine,” he added. “Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.” “And we want to mandate it? Insanity.” “This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate. I can’t wait to hear what a jury will make of this,” wrote Berenson on his substack blog, Unreported Truths.
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The only opening – the only one – for Berenson is that Twitter made a statement about banning him. Still a high bar, actual malice hard to prove.
If the company had kept its mouth shut (which it should have), the ban itself isn't defamatory & this would be a sure loser.
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) August 29, 2021
For info, the lawyer who literally wrote the book on the most important law governing a prospective Berenson suit thinks it's a nonstarterhttps://t.co/TWem0JhHCR
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) August 29, 2021
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