In another demonstration of social media just being an extension of the Biden administration, Twitter has permanently banned journalist Alex Berenson for questioning the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.Berenson, a former science reporter for The New York Times, has been a regular critic of COVID policies on social media, often highlighting outside studies or even the government’s own information to refute its claims about the virus. In some instances, he referred to debates over COVID policies as pitting “Team Pandemic” against “Team Reality.”In the tweet that got him banned, Berenson wrote, “It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine. Think of it — at best — as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity.”Twitter on Saturday declared that tweet “misleading” and announced that it had banned Berenson for “repeated violations” of its policies about pushing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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