Twitter Rep Gets Grilled For Censoring Harvard Educated Doctors on Twitter

‘Where’d You Go to Medical School?’: GOP Rep Rips Ex-Twitter Official for Censoring Stanford Doc’s Covid Opinions

Representative Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) blasted former top Twitter official Vijaya Gadde during a Wednesday hearing for presiding over the company’s censorship of alternative medical perspectives.

Gadde, former general counsel and head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter, admitted under questioning that no one at the company had the medical standing to assess claims about Covid-mitigation strategies and vaccines so they instead deferred to CDC guidance and censored information that contradicted the agency’s guidance.

“You’re not a doctor, right, Ms. Gadde?” Mace asked.

“No, I’m not,” Gadde responded.

“What makes you think you or anyone else at Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate, CDC data?”

“I’m not familiar with these particular situations,” Gadde said before Mace cut her off: “I’m sure you’re not.”

During the tense exchange, Mace accused Gadde and Twitter executives of shutting down Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford medical professor, who was critical of Covid-19 lockdowns.

“You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world, and you silenced those voices,” Mace said, referencing Bhattacharya.In early December, Bari Weiss released the second installment of “The Twitter Files,” which revealed that the social-media giant had created “secret blacklists” suppressing the presence of users deemed problematic.

Bhattacharya was among the individuals Weiss identified who Twitter targeted with a “Trends Blacklist” due to the professor’s opposition to the impact of lockdown mandates on children.

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