by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 11, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
A recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, accompanied by the predictable hysterical media coverage, has spurred nationwide chatter about a possible return to pandemic restrictions, from school closures to mask mandates. This is not baseless supposition, as schools,...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 20, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
In July of 2021, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, emailed a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, asking why the company had removed from Facebook, rather than demoted or flagged, claims that COVID-19 was “man-made.” Rice responded, “Because...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jul 28, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Among the revelations in the so-called Twitter files was that government officials pressured social-media companies to censor posts unfavorable to the Biden administration. The White House has denied this, insisting that companies like Meta and Twitter adopted...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 27, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
In June of 2022, the NIH published a study bemoaning Americans’ depleted trust in public health: “Public trust in federal government agencies has never been as important as it has been during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet public suspicions of scientific...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Ernest Ramirez, a car-wash technician in a small, south Texas town, led a simple but fulfilling life with his son, Ernesto Junior. Junior was a “wonderful child, full of smiles.” Ramirez had raised his son alone; he’d never known his own father and sought to provide...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jan 10, 2023 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Newly released documents show that the White House has played a major role in censoring Americans on social media. Email exchanges between Rob Flaherty, the White House’s director of digital media, and social-media executives prove the companies put Covid censorship...