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...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Sep 21, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
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...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jul 12, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
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...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 1, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
The Biden administration’s increasingly aggressive efforts to combat so-called misinformation, along with the prospective acquisition of Twitter by free speech advocate Elon Musk, have sparked a national debate about what role, if any, the government should play in...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 27, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
The Biden administration began a public, coordinated campaign last May to combat dissemination of “health misinformation” related to COVID-19, especially across social media platforms. Administration officials, including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and President Joe...