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Twitter Files: The ‘Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’ Worked to Censor ‘True Stories’

In the latest Twitter Files report published on Friday, journalist and author Matt Taibbi revealed that Twitter partnered with the Virality Project, which warned the social media platform that “true stories that could fuel hesitancy,” complained that “anti-vaccine” accounts were retweeting the CDC, and ironically ran searches for the term “surveillance state” while looking for more information to censor.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 14: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of A

China Censors Funeral for SARS Whistleblower Jiang Yanyong

Jiang Yanyong, a former Chinese military doctor who blew the whistle on his government’s cover-up of the 2003 SARS epidemic, died from pneumonia on Saturday at the age of 91. The regime in Beijing intimidated his family into taking a “low-key approach” to his passing because it does not want parallels drawn between Jiang and Covid-19 whistleblowers like Dr. Li Wenliang, who was persecuted by the State for trying to sound an early warning about the pandemic that would ravage the world.

Military surgeon Jiang Yanyong, the doctor spoke out the truth of SARS 10 years ago, talks

Ben Smith’s Semafor the Latest Chinese Regime Attempt to Gain a Foothold in U.S. Media

BuzzFeed founder Ben Smith’s announcement last week that his Semafor “global news platform” would be partners with a Chinese Communist Party think tank is just the latest example of Beijing’s relentless attempts to gain influence over U.S. media. China has invested a great deal of money and effort in shaping American news content, although most of its past efforts were a bit more subtle than Semafor’s openly-declared symbiosis.

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 06: Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, hands out free copi