White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas, who had a tweet taken down over the weekend by Twitter for violating the company's COVID-19 Misleading Information Policy, returned to the social media platform on Monday with a quote from George Orwell’s iconic novel, “1984.”
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,” Atlas wrote on Twitter. “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth."
Atlas’s tweet over the weekend said "Masks work? NO," and was followed by what Twitter called misrepresentations about the effectiveness of masks in combating the pandemic, according to CNN. The company said his message could lead to harming the public, especially as coronavirus cases are increasing in many places throughout the United States.
The Federalist's David Marcus expressed a similar criticism of Twitter by stating that “Twitter, which claims to be a neutral platform and enjoys legal protection as such, has once again proven that not only does it have an editorial agenda, it has a political one. You see, the information overlords at Twitter dot com will decide what information and what facts the masses like you and me are allowed to consume on their platform.
Marcus continued that Twitter “seems to believe that the American people are too stupid to confront and analyze actual information, and instead must be spoon-fed instructions like toddlers,” adding that “free speech is as central to the American experiment as any concept is, and as foreign to Twitter as could be.”
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