Twitter/CDC censorship connection

Carol Crawford at CDC

Am I going to do a little front-running of what upcoming Twitter reporting will be about - the CDC/Twitter backchannel. Presumably this backchannel resulted in my suspension for tweeting materials on mRNA vaccine myocarditis, along with the suspension of thousands of other members of Twitter for the same or similar posts.

This article sums up the materials regarding Twitter's 2021 suppression of Professor Naomi Wolf at the request of a CDC employee, Carol Crawford, to Twitter employee Todd O’Boyle:

“Carol Crawford, MPA, is the Digital Media Branch Chief, Division of Public Affairs in the Office of the Associate Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is responsible for leading CDC's digital media activities including oversight for CDC's web site and social media profiles. Carol has been involved in CDC’s Web and Social Media activities since their inception, including digital responses to high profile events such as Ebola, Zika, and H1N1.”

More due diligence regarding this issue, from a legal proceeding against the US federal government, via legal scholar Jonathan Turley: “The recently disclosed exchange between defendant Carol Crawford, the CDC’s Chief of digital media, revealed a back channel with Twitter and other companies to censor “unapproved opinions” on social media. The “tricky” part may be due to the fact that, during that week of March 25, 2021, then CEO Jack Dorsey was testifying on such censorship before Congress and insisting that “we don’t have a censoring department.””

As seen from the screenshot above, Carol Crawford appears to have a long tenure at the CDC.

Carol Crawford’s LinkedIn page includes her educational credentials, which are in public administration, i.e. she is unlikely to have been choosing the particular medical information points that were being sent to Twitter for censorship. This means that there was either a list of approved/banned health care topics surrounding covid, or else there was a medical professional providing her guidance on topics directly.

Either way, Ms. Crawford is likely to know quite a lot about cases such as Dr. Bhattacharya’s - and perhaps my own.