{"id":1914053,"date":"2023-04-13T04:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-berenson-sues-biden-pfizer-board-member-over-twitter-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:47:06","slug":"alex-berenson-sues-biden-pfizer-board-member-over-twitter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-berenson-sues-biden-pfizer-board-member-over-twitter-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Berenson Sues Biden, Pfizer Board Member Over Twitter Ban"},"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\">20<\/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%2Falex-berenson-sues-biden-pfizer-board-member-over-twitter-ban%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=1914053&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<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0412\/fa5092cc-9dd4-4082-8996-1d2254e474bc\/audio.mp3?length=2618829&#038;duration=218\"><\/div>\n<p>Former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson has sued President Joe Biden and a Pfizer board member for allegedly pressuring Twitter to ban him. Berenson was suspended from Twitter in 2021 after officials urged the social platform to take action against him for his COVID-19 vaccine criticism. Although Twitter initially resisted the request, it ultimately banned Berenson from the platform. Berenson later settled a lawsuit with Twitter and was reinstated after the company acknowledged\u00a0that it was wrong. In his latest suit, Berenson is targeting the officials who pressured Twitter, including Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb and Dr. Andrew Slavitt, a former White House COVID-19 official. Berenson claims that their actions violated his First Amendment rights and is asking for damages. The suit also asks the court to block the government from targeting Berenson.<\/p>\n<p>Berenson is a vocal critic of the COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that they have failed to stop infection or transmission. He has been quoted as saying, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t stop infection. Or transmission. And we want to mandate it? Insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5168877\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/03\/id5168877-Twitter-1244294139-ed-1200x675.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> The Twitter logo on the exterior of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Oct. 28, 2022. (Constanza Hevia\/AFP via Getty Images)<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>Officials Named in the Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<p>The defendants in the case are President Biden, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, White House officials Rob Flaherty and Dr. Andrew Slavitt, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb. None of them have responded to requests for comment from The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson on April 12 sued President Joe Biden and a Pfizer board member over the pressure placed on Twitter to ban him. Berenson, now an independent journalist, was suspended from Twitter in 2021 after top Biden administration officials and Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1914054,"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":[543],"tags":[9266,7008,24279,3620,3664,4839,5178,4253],"class_list":["post-1914053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-alex","tag-ban","tag-berenson","tag-biden","tag-board","tag-pfizer","tag-sues","tag-twitter"],"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\/1914053","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}