{"id":1603200,"date":"2022-08-12T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603200"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:56:32","slug":"biden-admin-secretly-pressured-twitter-to-ban-prominent-critic-for-covid-takes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-secretly-pressured-twitter-to-ban-prominent-critic-for-covid-takes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Secretly Pressured Twitter To Ban Prominent Critic For COVID Takes: REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-secretly-pressured-twitter-to-ban-prominent-critic-for-covid-takes-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603200&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration reportedly pressured Twitter to remove the account of Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter and prominent critic of Biden\u2019s COVID-19 policies, according to documents obtained and published by Berenson.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter suspended Berenson\u2019s account Aug. 28, 2021 for a tweet they later acknowledged didn\u2019t violate their rules, then reinstated him in July as part of a settlement in Berenson\u2019s lawsuit against the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/the-white-house-privately-demanded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the documents. The White House had pressured Twitter to remove him from the platform four months before his suspension, even though the company concluded he had followed Twitter\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n<p>Berenson is a prominent public critic of Biden\u2019s COVID-19 response and has questioned the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn\u2019t been kicked off the platform; otherwise their questions were pointed but fair \u2013 and mercifully we had answers,\u201d a Twitter employee wrote in a private company slack channel April 22, 2021 when asked \u201cHow was WH?\u201d according to screenshots shared by Berenson. The documents were obtained in the discovery process of Berenson\u2019s lawsuit, he <a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/the-white-house-privately-demanded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7500756\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7500756\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7500756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Alex Berenson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-620x465-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-1536x1152-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-2048x1536-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-2-70x52.jpg 70w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7500756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Alex Berenson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI believe these documents show that the Biden administration violated my First Amendment rights in pressuring Twitter to ban me, and I look forward to suing the administration in federal court,\u201d Berenson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7500758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7500758\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7500758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Alex Berenson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4.jpg 1282w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4-229x120.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4-620x325-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4-768x403-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4-1536x805-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-4-2048x1073-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7500758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Alex Berenson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Twitter employee said in one message that Andy Slavitt, senior advisor to President Biden\u2019s COVID-19 response team, suggested Berenson was the \u201cepicenter of disinfo that radiated outwards to the persuadable public,\u201d according to a screenshot Berenson shared.<\/p>\n<p>Top federal officials specifically targeted Berenson and pressured a private company to deplatform him, the documents reveal, potentially violating his First Amendment rights, he wrote. While previous lawsuits related to social media companies and governments working together to ban users have failed, he believes the targeting makes his case different.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter and the White House did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration reportedly pressured Twitter to remove the account of Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter and prominent critic of Biden\u2019s COVID-19 policies, according to documents obtained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}