Friday, December 16, 2022

Atatiana Jefferson's Killer Served!

This killer was convicted of manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson.

Dirty cop was convicted of manslaughter of 28-year old Atatiana Jefferson. 

The souls of Atatiana Jefferson, her mother Yolanda Carr and her father Marquis can rest knowing that this cop won't walk. He is a convicted criminal who could face 5 to 99 years in the iron college.

Atatiana Jefferson was holding a gun but never raised it to point at the white police officer who fatally shot her through a rear window of her Texas home, the Black woman’s 11-year-old nephew testified at the officer’s murder trial Monday. Defense attorneys contended that the child said otherwise immediately after the shooting.

The child’s testimony touched on an issue at the heart of the long-delayed case charging Aaron Dean with Jefferson’s killing: whether the Fort Worth officer saw Jefferson’s gun before he shot her.

Dean quit and was charged with murder two days after killing the 28-year-old while responding to a call about an open front door on Oct. 12, 2019.

Body-camera footage showed that neither Dean nor the other responding officer identified themselves as police at the house. Dean’s attorney, Miles Brissette, said the officer opened fire after seeing the silhouette of Jefferson with a gun in the window and a green laser sight pointed at him. Prosecutors told the jurors that the evidence would show otherwise.

That night, Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew, Zion Carr, who told a court Monday that his aunt pulled out a gun after hearing suspicious noises behind the house. Zion, then 8, said the gun was only ever pointed “down” but he acknowledged not remembering parts of what happened.

“She just held it next to her side, she just like, she didn’t point it up, she just kept it next to her,” he told prosecutors, who said the child previously said his aunt had pulled the gun up “a little bit.”

On cross-examination in the overflowing courtroom, Dean’s defense said Zion told a specialized interviewer in a recorded session after the shooting that Jefferson had raised the gun. The child denied this.

Atatiana's nephew was the key witness in the murder trial of ex-Fort Worth cop.

In 2019, the case was unusual for the relative speed with which, amid public outrage, the Fort Worth Police Department released the video and arrested Dean. Since then, it has been repeatedly postponed amid lawyerly wrangling, the terminal illness of Dean’s lead attorney and the COVID-19 pandemic.

By contrast, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went on trial and was convicted of murdering George Floyd more than 1 1/2 years ago. Floyd was killed seven months after Jefferson, in a case that sparked global protests over racial injustice.

Dean, who has pleaded not guilty, has been free on $200,000 bond. Now 38, he is charged with killing Jefferson after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson’s home was open.

Bodycam video showed Dean approaching the door of the home where Jefferson was caring for her nephew. He then walked around the side of the house, pushed through a gate into the fenced-off backyard and fired through the glass a split-second after shouting at Jefferson, who was inside, to show her hands.

Assistant District Attorney Ashlea Deener said during opening statements that Jefferson believed the officers were intruders. Dean opened fire without giving her time to comply with commands and never said he saw a gun, Deener said, adding “the evidence will support, he did not see the gun in her hands.”

The home’s front and side doors were open to vent smoke from hamburgers that Zion said he burned while cooking with Jefferson. The child later recalled his aunt falling to the floor, crying and shaking.

“I was thinking: Is it a dream?” he said.

At one point, District Judge George Gallagher stopped Zion’s testimony and asked a woman to leave the courtroom, saying she’d been gesturing to the child.

Manslaughter is a high crime but murder meant life if convicted.

Brissette argued that the officers were following protocol in treating the call as a potential burglary. He said they saw a living room that appeared to have been “ransacked” and circled the house looking for signs of forced entry. Brissette said evidence would show the officer’s actions were reasonable and the shooting was “a tragic accident.”

Jefferson’s killing shattered the trust police had been trying to build with communities of color in Fort Worth, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Dallas. The city of 935,000 has long had complaints of racially unequal policing and excessive force.

The shooting drew swift rebuke from the then-police chief and Republican mayor, who at the time called the circumstances “unthinkable” and said Jefferson having a gun was “irrelevant.”

Dean’s legal team used those comments repeatedly to try to move the case from Fort Worth, claiming the statements and news media attention would bias the jury pool.

Gallagher rejected their request again Monday before the jury of eight men and six women entered. The judge ended trial’s opening day before noon for the funeral of lawyer, Jim Lane, who had been Dean’s lead defense attorney.

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Washed Up 45's Big Announcement Flopped!

Washed Up 45 licensed his image to a NFT company. That was the big announcement.

The 45th President of the United States had announced in Nov. 2022 he was running for president again. It was a lackluster announcement. He delivered the same speech, went off subject numerous times and even Fox interrupted it. CNN ran it in full. MSNBC choose not to run it.

Then he saw his political fortune collapse after a nuermous series of blunders.

Washed Up 45 dined with embattled entertainer Kanye West and white extremist Nick Fuentes. His appointed federal judge Alieen Cannon withdrew the federal order to establish a special master after a federal appeals court rejected the former president's executive privilege as well as the attorney/client privilege. There were more classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. In August, the FBI had conducted a search of his Florida home and seized numerous classified and top secret documents.

He also faced a possible dissolution of The Trump Organization. The state of New York has found the company guilty of fraud and tax evasion. The Jan. 6 Committee has formally recommended a criminal referral to the U.S. Justice Department. The state of Georgia is considering charges after the former president tried to intervene in the election.  

His picks of Adam Laxalt, Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Kari Lake, Kelly Tshibaka, Blake Masters, Doug Mastriano and Lee Zeldin were disasters.

His popularity among Republicans is declining. The junk food media with exception of his most devoted critics and supporters have moved on towards Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two potential 2024 contenders.

Now his latest announcement has also netted criticism and even his allies were pissed that this announcement did not live up to the expectations.

On Thursday, Washed Up 45 unveiled virtual Washed Up 45 Digital Trading Cards, posting an airbrushed image of himself wearing an American flag-style Superman outfit.

"These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of my Life & Career! Collect all of your favorite Trump Digital Trading Cards, very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting," the former president wrote. "Only $99 each! Would make a great Christmas gift. Don't wait. They will be gone, I believe, very quickly!"

Biden mocked the project via his Twitter account, writing, "I had some MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS the last couple of weeks, too…"

The post included a checklist, reading, "Inflation's easing; I just signed the Respect for Marriage Act; We brought Brittney Griner home; Gas prices are lower than a year ago; 10,000 new high-paying jobs in Arizona."

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Mr. Free Speech Musk Twitter Bans Aaron Rupar And Keith Olbermann!

Twitter bans progressive blogger Aaron Rupar.

The far right is praising Elon Musk for bringing the #TwitterFiles to light. The release of Twitter top executives making a final decision on whether they should allow the New York Post run an article about Hunter Biden and his laptop. The feds said that it could be a disinformation campaign by the Russian Federation. Twitter took it seriously and blocked the far right tabloid from pushing it. As a private company, it can do as it pleases. 

The noise claims it was censorship and felt that despite the thousands of Americans dying from a pandemic, economic free fall and Americans felt motivated for new leadership, Republicans believed it could have been a game changer for Washed Up 45.

Musk, who owns Tesla and SpaceX has been notoriously active in promoting anti-vaccine and conspiracy theories decided to purchase Twitter because of a bot account lawfully tracking his private jet movements. Musk was forced to buy Twitter after the social media company sued him for breach of contract and deceptive practices.

Musk and Republicans are willing to work with unison to promote more noise.

Now with Republicans in slim control of the House of Representatives, their goal will not be the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the economic recovery or domestic extremism.

Their priorities are culture wars, investigating Hunter Biden, investigating Hillary Clinton, the Tara Reade allegation, ban abortion and call for impeachment  of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas.

Keith Olbermann got banned due to his criticism of Musk on his podcast.

Musk is advocating "free speech" only when it suits him. He banned the @elonjet account on Twitter. He also banned the creator Jack Sweeney, one of the reasons why he bought Twitter for $45 billion.

On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation.

Keith Olbermann, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Mashable’s Matt Binder, and journalist Aaron Rupar were also suspended Thursday evening. Many of the reporters regularly covered Musk’s takeover of Twitter in recent months. 

Rupar weighed in on his suspension on Substack, observing that while he did not know why his account was deactivated, he did share a link to the ElonJet Facebook account in the course of reporting on the subject. Through an alternate account, Mac shared the message he received from Twitter and noted that there was no warning before the permanent suspension

The situation followed the company’s decision to suspend the Twitter account of Mastodon, an open source social media alternative that’s built momentum since Elon Musk took over at the company. Twitter took action against Mastodon after the account linked to the Mastodon page of @ElonJet, a student-made bot that tracks the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet.

@ElonJet got banned on Twitter.

At least some of the accounts suspended had shared screenshots and observations about Mastodon’s suspension. Just prior to his suspension, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell tweeted about Mastodon being kicked off the platform.

Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended.

In light of Twitter’s reduced human moderation teams, it’s possible that automated systems enforcing Twitter’s brand new rules against accounts like @ElonJet were overzealous in this instance. But it’s at least as likely that this is a case of Musk directing the moderation process based on his own preferences — we just won’t know until someone at Twitter explains what’s going on.

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How Can I Put My Gun In My Trunk When You Saw Me With My Hands Out?

I've complied and they still pulled me out and handcuffed me.

A Florida man is demanding accountability after he was unlawfully detained by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. A routine traffic stop turning into a forced out the vehicle, illegal search and unwarranted grilling by three white deputies and one Black motorist.

The motorist was within his lawful right to have a firearm since Florida is an open carry and you are not required to have a concealed permit. However, the white deputy was trying to bait the motorist into self incrimination by telling him condescending comments about Florida law.

Braxton Smith believes he was racially profiled. He recorded parts of his encounter. One of the white deputies turned off his cell phone. Again, that is an unlawful act [but due to the Supreme Court's most recent decision, they are semi-protected from lawsuits when it comes to recordings and failure to render Miranda Rights by private citizens].

Smith said officers yanked him out of his car, handcuffed him face down on the ground and illegally searched his vehicle. After being detained and questioned for more than 30 minutes, Smith said Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Task Force members let him go free, without charging him with a crime. He was trying to pull into a well lit area but the deputies claim he was fleeing intentionally.

The video shows officers thought Smith was trying to elude arrest.

On JSO body-worn video, police are heard saying they pulled Smith over because he traveled 300 yards with them behind him flashing their lights and sirens. That’s the length of three football fields and 45 seconds to a minute at a slow speed.

The video shows officers thought Smith was trying to elude arrest.

On JSO body-worn video, police are heard saying they pulled Smith over because he traveled 300 yards with them behind him flashing their lights and sirens. That’s the length of three football fields and 45 seconds to a minute at a slow speed.

Smith can be seen with his hands out the window. He’s holding his driver’s license and registration.

″Don’t move,” an officer says.

“I ain’t moving, what’s up?” Smith said.

“Don’t worry about it, don’t worry about it. You keep your hands out the freaking window and shut your mouth,” an officer says.

In the video, police ask Smith if he smokes hemp and then tells him he might be going to jail.

“Officer, I’m a law-abiding citizen,” Smith says.

“Well, right now you might be going to jail,” an officer says.

“For what?” Smith responds.

“We’ll talk about that in a second,” the officer says.

Smith told News4JAX he was pulled over after speaking with a man at a nearby convenience store.

In the video, Smith tells police he was trying to find a safe location to pull over for police and himself. He’s read his Miranda rights and then aggressively questioned by the officer.

“So, why didn’t you stop?” the officer says repeatedly.

“I just told you,” Smith says.

“You think you’re smarter than everyone else,” the officer says.

“Look at what you just did to me. You just snatched me out my car, I rolled the window down and gave you my license, my registration, you didn’t read me my rights, you snatched me out of the car,” Smith says.

“You’re damn right I did. Why did I do that?” the officer interrupts.

“I don’t know, I haven’t the slightest idea,” Smith said.

“Because for 300 yards I had my lights on,” the officer says while Smith repeatedly tells him to search his name in the system.

“I’m a Black man in America, I’m terrified of the police,” Smith says.

“Mr. Black man, I’m asking you a question, how many different sirens did I turn on, how many times did I lay on my horn?” the officer says.

He then tells Smith to get in the back of his police cruiser and shut his mouth.

While Smith is being questioned, police search his car for drugs but don’t find any. Then they move to the trunk where they locate the veteran’s holstered handgun. One of the officers can be heard alleging that while Smith was being pulled over, he somehow reached behind him and put the gun in the trunk through the back seat.

“He absolutely could have,” an officer says.

“Let’s see if he’s a convicted felon, I’ll go run him for that,” an officer says.

Officers on the scene determined Smith was not a convicted felon. They then question him as to why he doesn’t have a concealed carry license for his gun before finally letting him go.

“I’m not going to take you in for felony fleeing and eluding. My ticket-writing program is not working right now, and we’ve got reports of gunshots down the street. So that’s the reason why we are letting you go,” the officer said.

Smith has filed an formal complaint against the JSO officers in the video, and JSO said the incident is being administratively reviewed.

The first three minutes of the police encounter were captured on his cell phone camera before officers turned the recording off.

Smith is also taking issue with the fact that JSO Task Force members stopped his cell phone video from recording while searching his vehicle without his consent. He says he wants answers and he wants the officers to be held accountable.

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Keystone XL Pipeline Sprang A Leak!

The Keystone XL pipeline leaked in rural Kansas.

This was not the first time. It was the 10th time.

If you're not aware of far right conspiracy theorist Sean "Softball" Hannity, let me clue you in. He is an annoying media agitator who relentless spews bullshit on talk radio and Fox. He is one of the long lasting cogs in a propaganda machine.

One of this annoying agitator's gripes were that then president Barack Obama and current president Joe Biden were not allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to be built in the United States. He claims that jobs and oil would be beneficial as gas prices rose during 2022. The Softball, Mark Levin, Fox, Republicans, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) petitioned for it. None of them want it built in their neighborhoods but they support it on public land, through reservations and underneath water aquifers.

It's a pipeline that begins in Alberta, a province of Canada and ends in Port Arthur, Texas.

It has an extension that goes into Missouri towards southern Illinois. 

TC Energy has petition for an extension of the line to run through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and meet into Nebraska along it's current line. The pipeline would violate treaties made between American lawmakers and the Native American reservations that are proposed along that route. 

Washed Up 45 reckless allowed the pipeline to built in parts of Nebraska and South Dakota before Biden halted the project indefinitely. TC Energy has ended the project.

The proposal ended leaving the current line. With needs of repair it sprung a leak in rural Kansas.

The pipeline failure 3 miles east of Washington, Kansas, on Wednesday caused an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude, or 588,000 gallons of a form of crude known as tar sands oil, to spill into Mill Creek, a natural waterway, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the U.S. Transportation Department.

The administration has ordered the affected section of pipeline, about 160 miles north of Wichita, closed until corrective action can be completed.

TC Energy, the Canadian parent of day-to-day pipeline operator TC Oil, said in a statement Saturday that the spill was no longer moving downstream. It mobilized 250 crews to handle cleanup and has deployed booms and vacuum trucks to stop the oil, the company said.

The Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement Saturday, "The discharge has been contained, and no drinking water has been impacted."

The failure along a 96-mile segment in parts of Washington County, Kansas; Clay County, Kansas; and Jefferson County, Nebraska, renews concern over pipeline safety after the demise of the contentious Keystone XL pipeline project.

The proposed pipeline, which would have carried Canadian oil sands to Nebraska, polarized political leaders, who mostly lined up to either kill it or make way. 

In the last five years, there have been at least three significant spills along the original Keystone Pipeline System, Wednesday's being the most voluminous, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

The pipeline regulators also noted accidents and breaches in the Keystone system in 2011, 2016 and 2020. The affected section is part of the 288-mile Cushing Extension, completed in 2011, which takes crude from Steele City, Nebraska, to Cushing, Oklahoma, regulators said.

Environmentalists have argued that the incidents come with such a pipeline and that they're not worth the convenience of more direct transportation for fossil fuel in a world coming to terms with global warming caused largely by burning it.

The Sierra Club said it was the 22nd time the pipeline it calls Keystone 1 has been the site of a spill, breach or accident.

Many environmental organizations want Biden to prohibit any new oil and gas infrastructure on public lands.

Alan K. Mayberry, an associate administrator at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, said in a letter to a TC Oil executive last week that the company is ordered to keep the affected segment offline.

Mayberry wants TC Oil to determine the root cause of the breach and name decision-makers who might have contributed to the spill, according to the letter, dated Thursday. He also said the company should repair or replace any damaged or breached segments and consider whether other parts of the pipeline have similar conditions or structural issues.

Ahead of any restart, TC must reduce pressure to 80% of what it was right before the breach, the federal pipeline regulators said.

The oil spilled as the company was conducting an analysis of the conveyance nearby by using an "in-line inspection tool," Mayberry wrote.

"The ILI tool is currently downstream of the failure location," he wrote. "Respondent had bypassed the Hope, Kansas, pump station, the next station downstream, in preparation for the tool to pass when the failure occurred."

Any possible cause-and-effect relationship wasn't clear. The letter also suggests the failure involved "failed pipe joints."

TC Energy said in a statement Friday that the pipeline was being run according to the rules. "At the time of the incident, the pipeline was operating within its design and regulatory approval requirements," the company said.

During the tenure of President George W. Bush, TC Oil was granted special permission to use higher-than-standard pressure along the Cushing Extension to move the thick form of crude from Canada.

Bill Caram, the executive director of the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust, told The Associated Press that the number of Keystone spills, breaches and accidents since then should prompt a reconsideration of allowing higher pressure.

"I think it’s time to question that," he said.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

tWitch Passed Away!

DJ tWitch passed in Los Angeles.

Ellen DeGeneres' longtime deejay and substitute host tWitch passed away from an apparent suicide. Born Stephen Boss, 40 he was found dead in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He committed suicide with a firearm.

His place of death was listed at a "hotel/motel." The case status was "closed" on the report.

tWitch worked on several films after breaking into the entertainment industry in 2008 on "So You Think You Can Dance," but he became known for bringing energy to Ellen DeGeneres' talk show for eight years.

Boss is survived by wife Allison Holker Boss and their three children.

"It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us," Holker Boss said in a statement.

"Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him. He was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans."

"To say he left a legacy would be an understatement, and his positive impact will continue to be felt," she continued. "I am certain there won't be a day that goes by that we won't honor his memory. We ask for privacy during this difficult time for myself and especially for our three children."

After Boss earned second place on "So You Think You Can Dance," he went on to appear in the "Step Up" film series with Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, and also in "Magic Mike XXL," "Ghostbusters" and "Modern Family."

"We will always remember Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss for the light and joy he brought into our lives and into the hearts of so many," FOX Entertainment, 19 Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions said in a statement. "This tragic, painful loss of such a radiant, inimitable talent and beloved friend is immeasurable beyond words, and we grieve alongside his family, loved ones and fans. 'tWitch,' we will miss you dearly."

Ellen DeGeneres devastated by tWitch loss.

DeGeneres and Boss worked together for years. She officially made him one of her co-executive producers of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in 2020.

"I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light," DeGeneres wrote on Instagram. "He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children - Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia."

Jennifer Lopez worked with Boss on "World of Dance." She wrote on Twitter, "Twitch was such a light and a beautiful soul… Shocked and deeply saddened. My heart breaks for Twitch, his wife and children Sending you love and strength." 

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson tweeted, "Man I am so sorry to hear the heartbreaking news about Twitch. Great guy. Sending his family all the love, light, strength and mana. I’ve lost a lot of friends to the struggle. You never know what’s happening between the ears. So sorry Boss family. Stay strong."

Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. Gun violence, monkeypox and COVID-19 will affect your town, your family and your life. So I don't want to hear that bullshit about how gun reform is taking away your rights to own firearms.

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Candace Owens Supports Discrimination Against Gays And Transgender Americans!

She just can't leave people alone.

That ashy ass Black extremist can't leave people alone.

Since Twitter became Elon Musk's personal social media platform, hate has skyrocketed.

Anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew, anti-vaccine, anti-immigrant, anti-government and anti-LGBTQ noise has been seen on Twitter. 

Over 75% of Twitter's diverse workforce were fired or forced to quit because Musk is a total dickhead and his vision of a Twitter that is "free speech" has become a huge disaster. 

Black extremist Candace Owens is responsible for Ye being the way he is. Thanks to her endless pandering of bullshit, Ye has lost millions. No one wants to be near him. Kim Kardashian is petitioning for supervised visits with his four children. He has lost endorsements and his billionaire status.

All thanks to Owens.

Owens often bitches about people on her podcast. When folks call her out, she runs to her legal team. She is a conspiracy theorist and grifter. She is what Jeffrey Shaun King was.

Owens is fuming about Sam Brinton, a non binary former White House official who was fired out the cannon after an allegation of theft. Brinton has a mustache, bald head, wears dresses and high heel pumps. It riles up Owens and the infamous Libs of TikTok.

Brinton, who was fired this December from their role as an official of President Joe Biden's Department of Energy, after being charged in two separate incidents of stealing suitcases from airports in the U.S.

Sam Brinton was fired out the cannon after an alleged theft at an airport.

In June 2022, Brinton made headlines after becoming the deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy. They were the first openly gender-fluid individual in federal government leadership.

After expressing a preference for men taller than her, Owens said: "I definitely discriminate against men that paint their nails and wear dresses. I don't really care how you feel about that.

You can wear your dress and you can paint your nails, but I'd prefer you keeping 100 feet away from a playground and all of the feet away from my children and me," Owens went on. "If I see you, I'm going to cross the street if I'm with my kids."

During the episode of the podcast, titled "Why Some People Deserve to Be Discriminated Against," Owens then mocked those who might suggest that she needs to be "more accepting of men who like to wear panties."

"I'm good," Owens said. "You can be more accepting of it. You run that risk when you see a guy that looks like a freak and you're with your children and say, 'To be accepting, I'm gonna put my kids next to him.'

"I am not going to be that person. I'm gonna go, 'That looks weird,' and I'm gonna move away from it. It's that simple."

Owens also said that she would discriminate against any adult—particularly a man—whom she saw alone in a playground, "no matter how normal they look."

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You Can't Make This S**t Up! The Far Right #DiedSuddendly!

Misinformation rampant on Twitter.

Far right noise has increased on Twitter. Elon Musk has suppressed prominent critics and banned even the troll who created an account that tracks his private jet flights. He is claiming to be a "free speech absolutist." He has released the #TwitterFiles and has endangered former employees lives. Also, he has gotten Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi to promote literal misinformation online on behalf of him.

Without the Twitter Safety and Accountability board, the misinformation skyrocketed and now I am seeing on this platform the hashtag #diedsuddendly. On top of that, there is the state of Florida's governor suing the state's health board to stop distributing the COVID-19 vaccine shots.

So now Twitter exploded with more coronavirus denialism and anti-vaxxers.

Over 1.1 million people have died from the coronavirus. People are still being hospitalized for the coronavirus. People are still getting it. Though the death count has dropped from 1,300 a day to at least 240 a day, the deaths are increasing again.

For those who do not want the vaccine, that is clearly up to them. 

Public health experts on the platform have expressed concerns that the change could discourage vaccinations.

"Bad news," tweeted epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, who urged other users to stay on the platform in order to counter misinformation. "Stay folks — do NOT cede the town square to them!" Feigl-Ding, a Harvard trained scientist, has more than 700,000 followers on Twittter but some researchers have criticized his tweets as "unnecessarily alarmist," Fast Company reported.

The social media platform's policy was put into place in December 2020 in response to misinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. It was quietly discontinued on November 23 with an update including a one-sentence message to users. The change comes after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk.

While the increase in misinformation may also be due to the release of the anti-vax documentary Died Suddenly, posts regarding the documentary would likely have otherwise been blocked if it wasn’t for Musk’s change in policy.

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