Ted Lieu Deletes Tweet After Getting Fact-Checked By Elon Musk

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), deleted a Monday tweet after being called out by Twitter CEO Elon Musk because he posted false information about the latest release. “The Twitter Files.”

Twitter Files’ latest release revealed that the Biden administration had pressed the platform to suppress COVID allegations “disinformation” while promoting the White House’s preferred messaging.

“Dear @davidzweig: The tweet you cite is in fact misleading. People of all ages at high risk from COVID generally benefit from vaccines,” Lieu tweeted. “Prior natural immunity may last only a few months. COVID appears to be a leading cause of death for children.”

Musk replied to another tweet which stated: “@tedlieu The preprint you linked to has actually been re-written as a result of my critique because it is seriously flawed and inaccurate. You linked to the old version.”

Musk stated, “Ted is linking to misleading data @CommunityNotes.”

Lieu’s tweet was subsequently deleted.

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The latest release Reporter David Zweig sent a Twitter thread about The Twitter Files.

The federal government is reportedly “rigged” The COVID Debate “By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy,” As well as “discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed,” “ordinary users,” Zweig.

Officials in both the Trump administration and Biden’s administrations were under pressure to suppress COVID details and promote a preferred narrative.

“Internal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @thefp showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes,” Zweig tweets

Zweig provided further evidence that the push towards COVID information was not restricted to Twitter.

“It wasn’t just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others,” He tweeted alongside a screenshot showing the companies involved.

The Twitter Files also cited examples of suppression by bots — automated intelligence that flagged certain content — while also outsourcing moderation to workers in faraway locations like the Philippines.

Contract workers “in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate,” Zweig.

In some cases, content was suppressed even when users cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) own data. Zweig cites an example where a bot flagged the tweet. The post received many replies. “tattles,” Referring to reports made by other users.

Dillon Burroughs contributed to the report.