Twitter Thought It Would Likely Lose First Amendment Lawsuit Filed by Journalist Alex Berenson After Ban

Twitter had responded to government pressure to censor Berenson over his truthful Covid tweets. Documents obtained by Michael Shellenberger as part of the Twitter Files revealed that Twitter leadership disagreed over banning Alex Berenson, further fueling his claim that Twitter had no justification to ban his account.

Berenson was banned from Twitter in August 2021 for violating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.

“The newly revealed secret debate inside Twitter’s former leadership highlights the still-unanswered question of whether Twitter banned me because it feared government or corporate retribution for allowing me to continue to publish on its site,” Berenson tweeted, after reviewing the evidence he received from Shellenberger. There was already evidence that the Biden administration and a Pfizer board member wanted to have Berenson censored. According to Berenson, after reviewing the documents, Twitter lawyers concluded that they could not win against the lawsuit Berenson filed to get his account reinstated. However, […]