Pfizer Board Member Pressed Twitter to Censor Tweets About Natural Immunity

Originally posted on Quora

Yet another revelation from the twitter files shows that corporate profits, specifically those of Pfizer Inc, took precedence over inconvenient truths. In this case, Scott Gottlieb, who was the FDA commissioner under Trump from 2017 to mid 2019 before becoming a Pfizer senior board member , submitted a complaint to twitter about a Tweet from Dr. Brett Giroir, another former FDA commissioner after Gottlieb. The Tweet correctly noted that natural immunity after infection was superior to vaccine protection and that “public health measures” should be more nuanced and provide exemptions for people with proven natural immunity instead of imposing a one size fits all policy. The tweet also encouraged people without natural immunity to get vaccinated. Even though Twitter’s strategic response team admitted the tweet did not violate their misinformation policies they flagged it anyway by putting a “misleading” tag on it and prevented anyone from sharing or liking it.