The vaccine recommendation came directly from the WHO website
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.”
The op-ed was published on June 23, 2021, and stated the WHO’s partnership with big tech companies “continued smoothly until just a few days ago. That’s when bureaucrats at the WHO published new vaccine guidance. Here’s what it says: children should not take the coronavirus vaccine. Why? The drugs are too dangerous,” Carlson wrote.
An internet archive of the WHO web page does show the WHO stated “Children should not be vaccinated for the moment” as of June 22, 2021. WHO officials added in their recommendations “There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults.”
The internet archive of the same webpage for June 23 did not include that language. Instead, it said it was “less urgent” to vaccinate children unless they were part of a higher risk group and that they concluded “the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine” was suitable for age 12 and up.
Twitter’s Qualms
The remainder of the first email by Busby included a note that in the past the company had included misinformation labels and measures before a user clicked on a link if the content would “otherwise violate” Twitter policies if the “content were posted directly on Twitter.”
By Chase Smith
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