Martin Kulldorff, a prominent epidemiologist, biostatistician, and former Harvard School of Medicine professor, said he was “not surprised” after seeing concrete evidence that a post he shared on Twitter was flagged and prevented from wider dissemination.
He expressed disapproval and said that the social media giant’s past censorship actions had stifled free debate on COVID-19 topics and undermined trust in science.
In the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” published early on Dec. 26, journalist David Zweig shared how, prior to Elon Musk having acquired Twitter, posts from Kulldorff and several others about COVID-19, including about vaccines, were flagged and censored in various ways.It marked the first trove of direct evidence from the “Twitter Files” showing how Twitter had censored scientists, potentially at the behest of the U.S. government, ever since journalist Bari Weiss revealed in early December that Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was put on a blacklist due to his views on COVID-19-related lockdowns and school closures.
