The latest Twitter Files drop shows how it was always just about the money. Those of us who have been calling this the Biggest Wealth Transfer in history can take a well-deserved victory lap.
Some of us have been calling this obligatory vax program a medical version of a Netflix subscription. It’s a Machiavellian ploy to squeeze money out of taxpayers around the world and have them thank you for the privilege.
Of course, getting the kind of power to pull that off doesn’t come easily. For one thing, you will have to silence your critics.
You also have to silence those damned bleeding hearts who don’t think it’s fair for Big Pharma to put profit about the lives of impoverished nations.
Big Pharma, fortunately, had some well-placed allies helping them out.
In this thread you will see:
-That the big players cared more about patents than they did about patients.
-How pharma learned the key Democrat lesson: never let a crisis go to waste.
-The massive lobby effort to shut down any treatment option NOT connected to one of the shiny new patented treatments. [Editor: ClashDaily often wondered aloud why all the efforts were focused on patented new vaccines or patented new treatments, while so little attention was paid to off-the-shelf solutions or out-of-patent repurposed medications. How many lives might have otherwise been saved using ordinary off-the-shelf treatments?]
– Biden helped USA strongarm nations that dared to use low-cost or generic COVID treatments and vaccines (remember: people were dying en masse, but Big Pharma wanted our resources to protect their profit over the lives of impoverished minorities)
– Big Pharm asked Twitter to silence anyone calling for generic low-cost COVID vaccines
– Big Pharm paid seven figures for an army of Twitter bots for enforcement of their narrative
– Pfizer/Moderna paid to take down accounts critical of their narratives … including ZeroHedge
– Bigh Pharma’s misinfo was never punished … just the dissenters.
1. New piece from the TWITTER FILES.
How the pharmaceutical industry lobbied social media to shape content around vaccine policy.The push included direct pressure from Pfizer partner BioNTech to censor activists demanding low-cost generic vaccines for low-income countries.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
3. But global drug giants saw the crisis as an opportunity for unprecedented profit. Behind closed doors, pharma launched a massive lobbying blitz to crush any effort to share patents/IP for new covid-related medicine, including therapeutics and vaccines.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
5. That brings us to Twitter. The global lobbying blitz includes direct pressure on social media. BioNTech, which developed Pfizer's vaccine, reached out to Twitter to request that Twitter directly censor users tweeting at them to ask for generic low cost vaccines. pic.twitter.com/6cVIRcUDZV
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
7. The potential "fake accounts" that Twitter monitored for protesting Pfizer? These were real people. Here's one the Twitter team flagged for potential terms of use violations. I talked to Terry, a 74 year old retired bricklayer in the UK on the phone. https://t.co/qIH0Tngsm1
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
9. In a separate push, Pfizer & Moderna's lobbying group, BIO, fully funded a special content moderation campaign designed by a contractor called Public Good Projects, which worked w/Twitter to set content moderation rules around covid "misinformation."
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
11. Many of the tweets the BIO-funded campaign focused on were truly unhinged misinfo, like claims that vaccines include microchips. But others Stronger lobbied Twitter on were more of a grey area, like vaccine passports & vaccine mandates, policies that coerce vaccination. pic.twitter.com/Xb9gcMxOLL
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
13. Notably, this massive push to censor and label covid misinfo never applied to drug companies. When big pharma wildly exaggerated the risks of creating low-cost generic covid vaccines, Stronger did nothing. The rules applied only to critics of industry. https://t.co/FTzQsGKM9i
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
15. Thanks @davidzweig and @lwoodhouse for help, and look for more Twitter reporting from @mtaibbi, @ShellenbergerMD, @bariweiss/@TheFP and others. You can find me on Substack here https://t.co/OS0VJ0CYfz
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023
Elon Smoked The Old Twitter Bird
ClashDaily’s Big Dawg has put his own spin on what’s been going down on the ol’ Bird App — the old Twitter is dead and Elon is building a new one.
Check out Doug’s latest piece, ‘Elon Smoked The Old Twitter Bird.’
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