The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are allegedly collaborating with Big Tech to suppress Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) social media posts about the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Republican representative stated in a letter dated August 28 to CDC Director Dr. Deborah Cohen that he is still investigating the health organization’s alleged efforts to “work with social media businesses to restrict COVID-19 vaccine material.”
According to Mr. Johnson, it is “clear that CDC abused its authority by engaging in a censorship campaign to suppress and discredit certain viewpoints it labeled as “misinformation” based on information he has allegedly received from Elon Musk’s X Corp. and documents made public through the discovery phase of state-led lawsuits against the Biden administration.
The Wisconsin senator continued by referencing the removal of his own Jan. 3, 2022 post on X, formerly known as Twitter, in which he highlighted information from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) database. The senator has been a vocal supporter of people who allege they have been injured by COVID-19 vaccines.
“Unfortunately, we crossed two milestones on VAERS,” Mr. Johnson said in his post.
Approximately 1 million adviser events and over 21,000 fatalities; 30% of those fatalities happened on the 0th, 1st, or 2nd day after immunization.
When will American citizens begin to see more transparency from federal agencies?
Why do they still disregard early intervention?” he said.
Health experts consider COVID-19 vaccines to be “safe for most people,” according to a note accompanying the article that contained a screenshot of the data from VAERS and was dubbed “misleading.”
All comments, shares, and likes on the post were thereafter blocked, according to Mr. Johnson, the ranking senatorial member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Prior to Mr. Musk’s takeover, the congressman alleges he later asked Twitter employees why his message had been called “misleading,” but got no response.
Later, he was informed by the platform’s new management that representatives from the executive branch, particularly those from the CDC, “communicated with social media businesses, including Twitter, regarding ‘COVID vaccine misinformation,'” according to the report.
The CDC made a clear and concerted effort to suppress those who tweeted about VAERS data, according to the evidence provided by Twitter, Mr. Johnson stated.
In his letter’s conclusion, the senator demanded that the CDC, starting on December 1, 2019, provide documents and information describing interactions between all of its personnel and those at X, as well as those on other social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, regarding 10 specific people who had expressed doubts about the vaccines and lockdowns.
The 10 people include Robert Malone, cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, eminent Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., critical care physician Pierre Kory, Alabama-based Army surgeon Lt. Col. Theresa Long, Brianne Dressen, a former preschool teacher who suffered severe injuries after taking part in AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical in November 2020, and professor of epidemiology Dr. Harvey Risch.
Additionally, Mr. Johnson requested that the CDC turn over any correspondence relating to him.
In addition, the lawmaker asked for a list of all social media posts that the CDC had identified as “containing misinformation, disinformation, or generally disfavored speech,” as well as all documents related to CDC communications with both private sector businesses and federal agencies regarding the censorship of online speech or COVID-19 misinformation policies.
The CDC had until September 11 to deliver the papers, according to him.
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