Twitter Files: Platform Allowed Big Pharma to Spread Misinformation Undermining Competition

Twitter allowed America’s biggest pharmaceutical companies to spread misinformation that hurt their competitors, according to a new batch of the Twitter Files released by Lee Fang, a journalist for the Intercept.

In the latest batch of the Twitter Files, Fang explains how Twitter censorship was utilized by pharmaceutical giants as part of their broader strategy to ensure smaller competitors and companies focused on therapeutics could not damage their extremely profitable coronavirus vaccine business.

This strategy included fending off efforts to water down strict intellectual property laws inhibiting the sharing of patents for coronavirus vaccines and treatments.

“Global drug giants saw the crisis as an opportunity for unprecedented profit,” wrote Fang. “Behind closed doors, pharma launched a massive lobbying blitz to crush any effort to share patents/IP for new covid-related medicine, including therapeutics and vaccines.”

Twitter censorship was part of this strategy. BioNTech, the developer of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, asked the tech platform to censor users asking for generic low-cost vaccines.- READ MORE

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