Twitter ‘censor’ spike

Under new CEO

The first few months of new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s tenure have validated fears his leadership would reduce free expression on the site, critics told The Post.

Numerous high-profile accounts have been banned — including a sitting member of Congress and a virologist who helped invent mRNA vaccine technology.

“It does appear that in the last month, particularly, Twitter has ramped up the censorship of people not just on the right, but people who go against the consensus,” said Dan Gainor, of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center.

Since Agrawal took the reins, the site permanently banned one of the accounts of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for allegedly violating its “COVID-19 misinformation policy.”

‘Quite a concern’

“For Twitter to ban my account for what they perceive as COVID ‘misinformation’ is quite a concern, because the information I shared is actually from the CDC website,” Greene (inset) posted on Gettr, a GOPfriendly Twitter competitor.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed Twitter’s move, and suggested that if Big Tech companies censors constitutionally protected speech, effectively acting as publishers, it should lose the protection of Section 230 — federal law which immunizes platforms from liability for third-party content.

Scientists banned

Twitter also permanently barred Dr. Robert Malone, who has widely been credited with inventing the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 immunizations. His posts questioned the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.

Another scientist, Prof. Michael Makris, who specialized in hemostasis and thrombosis at the University of Sheffield, had to delete a tweet on a new type of COVID-19 vaccine under development, or face a ban.

Just The News founder John Solomon was suspended for tweeting an article on the Food and Drug Administration’s statement that the fully approved Comirnaty vaccine is “legally distinct” from the emergency-approved Pfizer-BioNTech product.

Popular news aggregator Politics for All was reportedly banned for unspecified “platform manipulation.”

Thought-policing is “more overt” under Agrawal than Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey, said Gainor, whose employer runs Censortrack.org, which aggregates examples of online speech suppression.

Twitter did not return a request for comment.