Regulation of Fake News

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The United States government pressured Twitter to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19 and the pandemic. Internal emails that I viewed on Twitter showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform's content according to their wishes
But Kulldorff's statement was an expert's opinion--one that happened to be in line with vaccine policies in numerous other countries.
Yet it was deemed "false information" by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines. After Twitter took action, Kulldorff's tweet was slapped with a "misleading" label, and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet's ability to be seen and shared by others, a core function of the platform