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Wonder if Twitter will block this as misinformation if it’s not blessed by the WHO or CDC. Remember all those other small studies that looked at Vit-D and other drugs that showed they might help but got labeled or banned by Twitter as not official possibly misinformation?

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"There's an interesting study out that shows X may help with COVID" won't get you banned.

"X cures COVID 100% and the WHO is suppressing it to help Big Pharma!" will. (Might. Enforcement is spotty.)

And inconsistent.

Think about the thousands of humans with bias involved in those decisions one by one.

No, I don't remember that. I do remember Twitter banning people making wild claims on the basis of studies that didn't support those claims, of course.

And what people remember, in a number of cases, is linked to their biases.

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