Four Times Big Tech Censored Covid ‘Misinformation’ That Turned Out To Be True

If anything has highlighted just how much Big Tech now controls our public discourse, it is the pandemic. Suddenly, any stray expression of irritation at mask mandates or casual mention of doubt in the all-knowing pronouncements of our health overlords will have the social media censors turning their attention toward you like the Eye of Sauron. You’d think, given the frequency with which they end up with egg on their faces for their insistence that they’re following “science,” they would have learned a little humility by now. Sadly, there’s not much evidence of that as the “misinformation” labels and account suspensions continue apace.

The following four examples of social media giants censoring what turned out to be accurate information prove why they shouldn’t be in charge of fact-checking the public.

The Lab-Leak Theory

Early in the pandemic, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins began hearing from dozens of scientists offering evidence that Covid did not, as initial reports claimed, originate naturally from a Chinese wet market. But while Drs. Fauci and Collins were warned of the potential that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Collins appeared to dismiss what came to be known as the “lab leak theory” as a “conspiracy.”

In March 2020, Collins huffed that, “Some folks are even making outrageous claims that the new coronavirus causing the pandemic was engineered in a lab and deliberately released to make people sick.”

Fauci told National Geographic that the novel coronavirus “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.”

Naturally, Big Tech was happy to take their word for it.

In February 2021, Facebook announced an update to its sweeping misinformation policy intended to “[remove] more false claims about Covid-19 and vaccines.” Among the assertions that would henceforth be banned — claims that Covid leaked from a Wuhan lab.

Meanwhile, Google would not allow its search engine to auto-populate “lab leak” alongside “coronavirus.” Why not? Because, according to a Google spokesman, the company didn’t want to “[lead] people down pathways that we would find to be not authoritative information.”

When it was clear, a few months later, that support for the lab leak theory was growing in the scientific community (or, at least, more scientists were willing to speak up and admit it had been an eminently reasonable supposition all along), Facebook reversed its ban.

But as for Google, even after President Biden ordered US spy agencies to conduct a 90-day investigation into the issue, the company still didn’t officially reverse its autocomplete policy.

The Covid Vaccine and Menstrual Cycles

One of the earliest banned Covid subjects on social media was suggesting vaccines might adversely affect fertility. The concern over whether a new medical treatment can impact a woman’s ability to bear children is a serious one, especially when there hasn’t been time to conduct long-term research. These worries ramped up as women began anecdotally sharing that the Covid vaccine was affecting their periods.

Among the countless media outlets that rushed to tell these ladies they were nuts for believing their own bodies was “Good Morning America.” It brought on Dr. Jennifer Ashton to declare that there was “zero scientific or medical basis” for believing that the vaccine could impact periods because there is “zero hormonal interaction.”

Based on “facts” like these, Facebook and Twitter felt no compunction about slapping misinformation labels on posts from women questioning the vaccine’s impact on their ability to get pregnant.

Turns out, their stories weren’t so crazy after all. A study released two weeks ago found that Covid vaccinations can disrupt women’s menstrual cycles. Often not by much, but a delay is a delay.

As another recent study, funded by the NIH itself concluded, we still don’t have conclusive long-term proof that Covid vaccines have no impact on fertility. The best the researchers could offer was, “It is unlikely that adverse effects on fertility could arise many months after vaccination.”

The menstrual cycle, as any kid in a high school science class knows, determines when ovulation happens, and it does appear it can be impacted by the Covid vaccine. While we don’t yet know how large the impact may be, Big Tech’s insistence it could not have an impact was clearly wrong.

Masks

Everyone knows that over the last two years one of the easiest ways to see your social media post disappear or receive a label was to question the efficacy of masks. No one was immune. Dr. Scott Atlas, one of President Trump’s controversial pandemic advisors, said his Twitter account was locked for 12 hours after he posted a message on the platform that said “Masks work? NO” followed by citations questioning the efficacy of face coverings in certain areas with strict requirements.

YouTube followed suit in August by suspending Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), another doctor, who said the platform banned him for seven days for a video that quotes peer-reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work.

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