HOW IT STARTED: Twitter Admits ‘Error,’ Reinstates ZeroHedge After Banning It for Calling Out China.

Twitter admits it wrongfully banned the site ZeroHedge, but its history of selective enforcement is still infamous.

The COVID-19 virus’s origins, lethality, and cures have been hotly debated throughout 2020, to the point where social media platforms have heavily restricted many users’ posts. As a rare exception, one website has been reinstated after users thought it was gone forever. “133 days after Twitter ‘permanently’ banned Zero Hedge on January 31, the social network has reinstated us after admitting it made an error,” skeptic outlet ZeroHedge revealed June 14.

Twitter previously banned ZeroHedge’s account for allegedly violating Twitter’s platform manipulation policy by theorizing about the Wuhan virus’s origins. The initial ZeroHedge article suggested that the mainstream narrative about coronavirus being spread thanks to some bat soup was a “fabricated farce.”

—NewsBusters, June 15th, 2020.

How it’s going:

As Kate of Small Dead Animals tweets, “I can’t wait for Karoline Leavitt to call on ‘Tyler Durden.'”