Jonathan Turley says Google letter is ‘vindication’ for ‘banned and blacklisted’ scientists

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said on Wednesday that a letter from Google was “vindication” for many who were “banned and blacklisted” for allegedly spreading misinformation.

Google’s holding company, Alphabet, acknowledged in a Sept. 23 letter to the House Judiciary Committee that the company engaged in removing content and suspending accounts over viewpoints on COVID-19 and the 2020 election. Turley noted that the letter reveals just how extensive censorship was during the Biden administration. 

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“You had this coordination between the government, corporations, academia and the media to censor people with opposing views and it came at a great cost, not just to free speech, but in Covid, we never had the debate that other countries had,” Turley told “America’s Newsroom” co-host Bill Hemmer. “Many of our allies did not shut down their schools and they have not experienced the psychological and developmental problems that we have experienced and that’s because platforms like Google and YouTube and Facebook, these scientists were barred, they were banned and blacklisted.”

“Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration, who were scientists that raised opposing views, were at a speech of mine at the University of Chicago over a year ago and they have been vindicated in many respects on the stuff that they wanted to get out to the public but were prevented from doing so,” Turley continued.

The Great Barrington Declaration is a document authored by Drs. Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya in October 2020, which called for a shift from the lockdowns to “focused protection” of those most vulnerable to the disease.

Facebook had previously announced it was ending its content moderation process in favor of a “community notes” approach. Turley said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk deserved credit for turning things around by purchasing Twitter, and observed a major censorship threat came from the European Union.

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