how the social media company rigid the covid debate with elon musk teasing there are more files to come. correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. rich, good evening to you. in a relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. today s newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the government tried to control the narrative. writer da david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech companies to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores. but there were runs on grocery stores. he also reveals twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter s former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitte
also have to to mollie s point science not being settled look at this as a project in motion. there is a timeline here, we have seen that the trump administration was very active in working with the social media companies to make sure the bad information wasn t getting out there and then when the biden administration came, in they were doing that as well. so this is a bipartisan reaction to a once in a lifetime pandemic that no one had any good answers to. and i think that you are seeing the fact that content moderation is difficult. i personally found this to be the most interesting batch of twitter files or whatever we re calling them but i wish that they had focused more on the doctor, as howie pointed out, the people who knew what they were talking about being censored vs. somebody like alex berenson already said he was controversial. not just controversial he was dead wrong about a lot of things that are really important. he had said for instance one in every 500 kids under 5 who
announced that prime minister s questions, that the last covid restrictions in england will be lifted a month early. some scientists are saying, that is a pretty na kedly scientists are saying, that is a pretty nakedly political decision pretty na kedly political decision rather than pretty nakedly political decision rather than a decision based on the science. ., ,., ., ., science. and labour have made the same point science. and labour have made the same point so science. and labour have made the same point so i science. and labour have made the same point so i spoke science. and labour have made the same point so i spoke to science. and labour have made the same point so i spoke to wes - same point so i spoke to wes streeting, the labour shadow health secretary this afternoon, who said this is politicking, the prime minister trying to dig himself out of a political hole with an announcement that would no doubt please some of the conservative backbenchers. it is worth say
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