Covid-19 Articles & Commentary

The White House Covid Censorship Machine

The White House Covid Censorship Machine

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...

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The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime

The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime

One warm weekend in October of 2020, three impeccably credentialed epidemiologists—Jayanta Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff, of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Universities respectively—gathered with a few journalists, writers, and economists at an...

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The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime

Kamala Harris’ Free Speech Task Force

After the COVID ‘misinformation’ experience, will the vice president’s new plan for addressing online harassment go any better? For most of its existence, I had avoided social media and held particular disdain for Twitter, which I saw as intrinsically...

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The Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is Unlawful, Too

The Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is Unlawful, Too

Any statute in a storm appears to be the Biden administration’s approach to imposing a vaccine mandate. The Procurement Act of 1949 was created “to provide the Federal Government with an economical and efficient system for” procurement. Like the OSHA statute that the...

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The Federal Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans

Mandates Are About Political Control, Not Health

For two years, the political class’s ineptitude has been on full display. School shutdowns, business closures, and endless mask mandates have all proven relatively ineffective at stemming the spread of COVID-19 (never mind reducing hospitalizations and deaths), yet...

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