My sources for the article that the link above leads to are:
●The New York Times
●The Journal of the American Medical Association
●The Spectator (the United States’ oldest magazine)
● A note by journalist Michael Shellenberger at X that the U.S. administration had information about the lab leak theory of the origin of COVID in its possession some time before the CIA mooted it for public discussion. In Shellenberger’s private opinion, “the Biden administration illegally withheld the truth from the public.”
No big deal, right?
Well, this morning, I received a note:
We found that your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on misinformation. It’s been removed from LinkedIn and only you can access it.
Repeatedly creating content that doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies could lead to your LinkedIn account being restricted.
Clearly, whoever oversees Incorrect Thought at LinkedIn doesn’t realize that the wind has changed. The Disinformation Governance Board flopped years ago in the United States, when it quickly became apparent that “disinformation” (or misinformation or malinformation or whatever they are now calling it) is — in general — what parties in power do not want you to know or think.
Yes, I’ve appealed. But I don’t really care what LinkedIn decides. Just yesterday, we ran a story about Wesley J. Smith’s interview with former CDC head Robert Redfield, talking about ways in which he feels the government misled the public about COVID. Is that misinformation too, LinkedIn?
So far as I am concerned, the outcome of my appeal isn’t a reflection on my post but on the continuing usefulness of LinkedIn now that Big Brother has retired.
Message to LinkedIn: This is not even a politically sensitive topic any more! Whoever you are protecting, you can just stop.
Update: Just as I was about to punch the Send button for this story, LinkedIn reversed its decision. Maybe it is still a relevant social medium after all.
You may also wish to read: Former CDC director discusses the Covid years: What worked, didn’t Robert Redfield’s surprising interview with Wesley Smith shows that there was significant opposition within the agency to the vaccine mandates. He talks about how Americans were sometimes misinformed on critical issues like whether the vaccines prevent Covid.
At LinkedIn, Covid myths still rule. Here’s a post they removed