Twitter Files: Tucker Carlson Op-ed About COVID Vaccines for Children Targeted as ‘Misinformation’
Tucker Carlson returned to Twitter following the announcement he and Fox News had parted ways—his first comment made in a video had already garnered nearly 22 million views in two days.
Emails found in the “Twitter Files” show the same platform, under the previous leadership, worked to label information Carlson published in an opinion article, which was taken directly from the World Health Organization’s website—and subsequently edited out—as “COVID misinformation.”
They decided not to mark the Fox News URL as unsafe, given “political risks.” Instead, they labeled “any tweets linking the article” as possible COVID-19 misinformation.
‘Misleading Information Policy’
An email from Elizabeth Busby, a former Twitter communications staff member, to her “team” questioned whether the op-ed violated Twitter’s “COVID-19 misleading information policy” and qualified for “enforcement.”…