Sen. Ron Johnson is accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of abusing its authority by coordinating with social media platforms to censor information about COVID-19 vaccines.
The Wisconsin Republican referenced social media posts about vaccines, including one of his own, that were characterized as misleading.
He cited his own social media post on the platform now known as X, which was labeled as “misleading” when the social media site was called Twitter. The senator’s post says that VAERS data showed 1 million adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccines. The “misleading” label on the post countered that most public health officials said that the vaccines are safe.
Mr. Johnson also revealed that X employees noted that the “CDC identified ‘misleading information about VAERS reports’ as a specific subset of ‘COVID Vaccine Misinformation,’ which they encouraged social media companies to address.”
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