Twitter files: Was Twitter pressurised to supress accounts disagreeing US Covid policy?

The other set of Twitter files released on Monday alleged the platform censored Covid information that was ‘true but inconvenient’ to United States government policy, suppressed disagreeing doctors, experts and other ordinary users.

In a series of tweets shared by David Zweig, a New York-based independent journalist and writer, the leaked files purportedly showed how the US government pressured Twitter to intensify certain content and silence others related to Covid-19.

Zweig claims that internal Twitter files he viewed revealed that the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content to their liking.