“First it was Facebook, then all of New Zealand; now Twitter has decided to suspend Zero Hedge.
Just as in the prior bans, which were eventually overturned, so in this case it is unclear what prompted Twitter’s abrupt censorship.
What appears to have happened is that twitter received a complaint from the website best known for publishing the discredited Steele dossier when no other media outlet would touch it, and making cat slideshows of course, Buzzfeed, in which someone called Ryan Broderick writes that Zero Hedge “has released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan, China, falsely accusing them of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon, in a plot it said is the real-life version of the video game Resident Evil.
Are we then to understand that we have now reached a point the mere gathering of information, which our colleagues in the media may want to eventually do as thousands of people are afflicted daily by the Coronavirus, is now synonymous with “abuse and harassment”? According to Twitter, and certainly our competitors in the media, the answer is yes.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zerohedge-suspended-twitter
WHAT?! Major independent news outlet has been suspended from Twitter?
I rely on @zerohedge for market and international data points I cannot get from any other outlet. I’m contacting their team to find out what happened.#FreeZeroHedge #FreeNews pic.twitter.com/VA7hLzlXSb
— Ali (@ali) January 31, 2020