Mon Aug 15, 2022 – 9:57 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Prominent reporter and author Alex Berenson, who became well-known among conservatives for speaking out against the “dangerous” and “ineffective” COVID-19 injections, said in a recent Substack post that White House officials had specifically asked Twitter to censor him last year.
According to Berenson, internal messages he obtained “make clear that top federal officials targeted me specifically, potentially violating my basic First Amendment right to free speech.”
In an August 12 Substack post, the author and former New York Times reporter said that officials within the Biden administration had “asked Twitter to ban me because of my tweets questioning the Covid vaccines, even as company employees believed I had followed Twitter’s rules.”
Berenson backed up his claims with screenshots of internal communications between Twitter staffers using the communication platform Slack. According to Berenson, the Slack messages were obtained as part of the settlement after he filed a federal lawsuit against Twitter.
My new Stack, on the White House’s explicit demand that Twitter ban me, months before it did.
This is state action and a violation of my First Amendment rights, period.
Berenson v. Biden (and Slavitt), coming
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