When Alex Berenson was kicked off Twitter for alleged violations of their alleged public interest policy on alleged covid “disinfo” the MSM cheered. But they may not cheer as loud when Biden officials start going down over it. Because it turns out — and also OBVIOUSLY — they were using their position in government to pressure the social media company into the ban. Pressure Twitter was obviously excited and randy to surrender to.
Berenson, as he always does, has the receipts.
You see, he brought a lawsuit over it, and that means a discovery process. And that means he got to see who said and what. And THAT means …well take a look:
To my old colleagues at @nytimes and elsewhere: I know ideology now trumps journalism for you.
But imagine what you’d say if you found proof the Trump WH had targeted you personally for a Twitter ban for your reporting. That’s what the Biden Administration did to me.
Not okay. pic.twitter.com/9kS23td68a
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 12, 2022
Hey @ASlavitt, remember how you tried to use the power of the federal government to deplatform me?
Time to lawyer up pic.twitter.com/lAex3UvxzP
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 12, 2022
A reminder: one reason @aslavitt focused so much on me in April 2021 was that I’d spent almost a year mocking his idiocy and fear, like his July 2020 call for a complete China-style lockdown of the US.
He disliked me even BEFORE I started reporting the truth about the vaccines… pic.twitter.com/7ixDMkkLvn
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 12, 2022
Crickets from @aslavitt to explain/apologize for his appearance as the Biden Administration’s Censor-in-Chief in the Twitter documents today. I guess he hasn’t been online!
It’s okay, depositions will clear everything up https://t.co/12XIgfAzy8
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 13, 2022
Btw almost unnoticed in @WSJopinion piece about the Biden effort to censor me – which is getting huge attention – is this stunning paragraph, which says my views on the mRNA shots are just as credible as those of the health authorities and governments that have pressed them. pic.twitter.com/WV4uguanG2
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 13, 2022
In his substack, Berenson elaborates.
Biden Administration officials asked Twitter to ban me because of my tweets questioning the Covid vaccines, even as company employees believed I had followed Twitter’s rules, internal Twitter communications reveal.
In a White House meeting in April 2021, four months before Twitter suspended my account, the company faced “one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn’t been kicked off from the platform,” a Twitter employee wrote.
The employee recounted the meeting discussion afterwards on Twitter’s internal Slack messaging system. The message, and others, make clear that top federal officials targeted me specifically, potentially violating my basic First Amendment right to free speech.
The First Amendment does not apply to private companies like Twitter. But if the companies are acting on behalf of the federal government they can become “state actors” that must allow free speech and debate, just as the government does.
Ted Cruz asks the second most important question.
Biden WH asks Twitter “please ban this troublesome journalist.”
Big Tech oligarchs happily oblige. Then lose lawsuit.
Will any “journalists” ask Biden why the hell his WH is trying to silence & censor journalists? https://t.co/ujGILP0CnL
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 12, 2022
What’s the first most important question?
WHEN WILL PEOPLE START TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE OF THE TOTALITARIAN STATE THE LEFT IS IMPLEMENTING???
Well I guess those are actually related parts of a single question.