Over the summer, my nephew’s best friend, age 34, died suddenly after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Ironically, his pregnant wife had pressured him into getting the vaccine so he would be a healthy dad to their soon-to-be-born child.
Since then, we’ve heard many stories of young men developing myocarditis, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “inflammation of the heart muscle,” and pericarditis, which is “inflammation of the outer lining of the heart,” following vaccinations.
The American Heart Association recently published an article warning about the potential dangers of mRNA vaccines. Attorney Marina Medvin tweeted the article on Thursday, only for Twitter to flag it as “misleading content that could lead to real-world harm.”
When a reader clicks on the link to the article, a warning pops up that says, “This link may be unsafe. … The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with Twitter’s URL Policy.”
Following a list of four reasons why the link may have been deemed unsafe — including “violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm” — the site gives the reader the option to return to the previous page or ignore the warning and view the objectionable material.
Is Twitter now playing scientist? Will it be policing other papers from major health research publications, or just the ones that challenge its narrative?
A fact-checking organization called Retraction Watch reviewed the article and determined that it deserved an “expression of concern.”
First among its “concerns” was a typographical error: “PLUS” instead of “PULS,” the name of a cardiac test.
Retraction Watch also wanted readers to know that...
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2 comments:
Those engrossed with social media made Twitter into what it became. Regardless of opinion, or dislike for how the platform behaves, accounts remain open, people continue to be censored, and the only repercussion is complaining by those that could end the social media giant by closing their accounts.
What's remarkable about this story is the American Heart Association is being right about something. The other half is Twitter being Twitter.
To be a fact checker on Twitter, your IQ has to be below 75.
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