Twitter has said for years that they don’t take sides politically, and their filtering policies are aimed at reducing “misinformation.” Of course, today’s misinformation is often tomorrow’s truth. But it turns out that what they were doing was even worse than that.  When it came to COVID, they were putting a thumb on the scale to hide the anti-lockdown side from public view.

Our friend Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford Medical School — an unquestionably qualified expert and one of the leaders of the Great Barrington Declaration and champion of open schools — was on Twitter’s “trends blacklist,” which means his tweets were excluded from the trending tab on the side of the sight, a major driver of visibility: