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"Still trying to process my emotions on learning that @twitter blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt."

https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/16010379837793894...

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I don’t know how other people think about this, but in my mind there is a large difference between censoring and not promoting, and the trends blacklist feels more like the latter.

IIRC the trending topics on Twitter are a mixture of automated and manually-selected. Not manually selecting him would be "not promoting", but putting him on a blacklist means he was prevented from naturally showing up - that's censoring.

Is this an answer to GP's question? If so, I'm having trouble figuring out what it is.

He was blacklisted due to his opposition to school closures and other intrusive NPI's during the pandemic.

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