Alex Berenson Posts Documents That Show Biden Administration Pressuring Twitter To Ban Him

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson obtained internal documents that reveal the Biden administration pressured Twitter to ban him last year for questioning the government's response to COVID-19.

Berenson posted the documents Friday, showing Twitter employees in April 2021 discussing a meeting with Andy Slavitt, senior advisor to President Biden's COVID-19 response team. Slavitt called Berenson the "epicenter of disinformation."

In a separate screenshot, a Twitter staffer asked if there were any "high-level takeaways from the meeting," to which a colleague said the Biden administration wanted to know why the service had not yet banned Berenson:

 

How is that for a pull-back the curtain moment? A high-ranking federal official had urged a private company to silence a pesky journalist.

For background: Twitter permanently suspended Berenson's account on Aug. 28, 2021 then later reinstated him. Twitter decided the following tweet did not violate its guidelines as part of a settlement in Berenson's lawsuit against the company:

"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."