{"id":1695433,"date":"2022-10-14T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695433"},"modified":"2022-10-16T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:49:37","slug":"pfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb-secretly-pressed-twitter-to-censor-critic-alex-berenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb-secretly-pressed-twitter-to-censor-critic-alex-berenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer Board Member Scott Gottlieb Secretly Pressed Twitter To Censor Critic Alex Berenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fpfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb-secretly-pressed-twitter-to-censor-critic-alex-berenson%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=1695433&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>Former New York Times reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alex-berenson\">Alex Berenson<\/a> said Thursday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pfizer\">Pfizer<\/a> board member\u00a0Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), got him banned from Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Following a temporary ban in 2021, \u201cWhen I came back on the platform last year, in August, I was asking even harder questions about the vaccines, at a time when the Biden administration knew they were going to be pushing for mandates and boosters, they still wouldn\u2019t ban me,\u201d Berenson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/alex-berenson-pfizer-linked-former-fda-official-banned-twitter-months-long-conspiracy\">said<\/a> on Fox News\u2019s \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then,\u201d he added, \u201cScott Gottlieb, director of Pfizer on the executive committee of Pfizer, which has made tens of billions of dollars from selling these vaccines, went to Twitter and said this guy is a problem and then they banned me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Gottlieb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquawkCNBC\/status\/1580913476847177728\">appeared<\/a> on CNBC, where he works as a contributor, and did not deny those claims. Gottlieb said he won\u2019t comment on Berenson\u2019s allegation and said it\u2019s due to possible litigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy primary concerns with Twitter relate to the physical safety of people. Threats have been made on that platform by multiple provocateurs that I believe need to be carefully monitored, specifically threats by instigators who target people for harassment and even violence,\u201d he also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottGottliebMD\/status\/1580960938970054656\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRespectful debate and dialogue is one thing, and should be encouraged and protected. But there\u2019s no place for targeted harassment, and misleading dialogue which can instigate a small but persuadable group of people to make targeted and dangerous threats,\u201d Gottlieb continued.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Berenson wrote on his Substack page that he \u201cnever made any threats against\u201d him, White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci or anyone else involved in the federal COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNor have I used the kind of over-the-top language that some vaccine skeptics use, such as calling Fauci a profiteer or criminal who should be tried for crimes against humanity,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/scott-gottlieb-just-slandered-me\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cI regard those accusations as inflammatory and the stakes of this debate too high for that kind of language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Berenson <a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/pfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb\">published a long Substack article<\/a> that shows a chain of events, including emails that he obtained via discovery in his suit against Twitter, that pointed to Gottlieb essentially getting him banned.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021, he alleged, Gottlieb wrote an email to Twitter questioning Berenson\u2019s posts regarding\u00a0Fauci\u2019s statements around COVID-19 vaccines. Gottlieb had allegedly written that Berenson\u2019s statement \u201cis what\u2019s promoted on Twitter\u201d and \u201cthis is why Tony (Fauci)\u00a0needs a security detail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was, according to Berenson, the \u201cfinal act in a secret months-long conspiracy to suppress my basic American right to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was discouraging people from getting the vaccines, which the White House wanted and [he was] asking them why they hadn\u2019t banned me,\u201d Berenson claimed later in his interview with Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted Pfizer for comment.<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson said Thursday that Pfizer board member\u00a0Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), got him banned from Twitter. Following a temporary ban in 2021, \u201cWhen I came back on the platform last year, in August, I was asking even harder questions about the vaccines, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695433","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}