{"id":1807471,"date":"2023-01-16T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807471"},"modified":"2023-01-16T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:05:42","slug":"pfizer-biontech-pressured-twitter-to-censor-activists-demanding-generic-covid-vaccine-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-biontech-pressured-twitter-to-censor-activists-demanding-generic-covid-vaccine-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer, BioNTech \u2018Pressured\u2019 Twitter To Censor Activists Demanding Generic COVID Vaccine: 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\">24<\/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-biontech-pressured-twitter-to-censor-activists-demanding-generic-covid-vaccine-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=1807471&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-->\n<p>A new edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-twitter-files-release-shows-how-adam-schiff-staffers-harassed-the-company-with-absurd-ban-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Twitter Files<\/a> Monday&#8217;s release alleges that a coronavirus vaccine producer pressured Twitter to censor accounts that were trying to push companies to share intellectual property and patents related with vaccines in order for low-cost generic versions of the vaccines to be made.<\/p>\n<p>The Intercept reported that BioNTech, which developed Pfizer\u2019s vaccine, and the German government allegedly warned the social media company of upcoming pressure campaigns targeting the companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe authorities are warning about \u2018serious consequences\u2019 of the action, i.e. posts and a flood of comments \u2018that may violate TOS\u2019 as well as the \u2018takeover of user accounts\u2019 are to be expected,\u201d Nina Morschhaeuser is a lobbyist for Twitter and stated this in an email. \u201cEspecially the personal accounts of the management of the vaccine manufacturers are said to be targeted. Accordingly, fake accounts could also be set up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer and Moderna\u2019s lobbying group, BIO, did flag tweets that contained genuine misinformation, like claiming that vaccines contained microchips.\u00a0BIO also donated $1,275,000 for a campaign called \u201cStronger\u201d This helped Twitter to create content moderation robots and choose which public health accounts received verification. Lee Fang from The Intercept reported that some of the targeted content appeared to be misinformation. Lee was covering the latest installments of Twitter Files.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut others Stronger lobbied Twitter on were more of a grey area, like vaccine passports &#038; vaccine mandates, policies that coerce vaccination,\u201d Fang wrote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">11. The BIO-funded campaign highlighted many tweets that were unhinged misinformation, such as claims that vaccines contain microchips. Others, however, lobbied Twitter for a grayer area. They included vaccine passports and mandates, as well as policies that coerce vaccine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xb9gcMxOLL\">pic.twitter.com\/Xb9gcMxOLL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lee Fang (@lhfang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lhfang\/status\/1615020501222686721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is breaking news; check back often for more updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new installment of the Twitter Files released Monday alleges that a coronavirus vaccine manufacturer pressured Twitter into censoring accounts that were pushing companies to share the intellectual property and patents associated with the vaccines so low-cost generic versions could be made. The Intercept reported that BioNTech, which developed Pfizer\u2019s vaccine, and the German government &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1807474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4091,15129,7468,4127,6202,4798,15130,4839,4364,3819,4253,3954,6195],"class_list":["post-1807471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-activists","tag-biontech","tag-censor","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-demanding","tag-generic","tag-pfizer","tag-pressured","tag-report","tag-twitter","tag-vaccine","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807471","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}