#Alex berenson twitter free
The free speech claim against Twitter in particular was found to be unconvincing because Berenson’s lawyers failed to show that the federal government had a hand in Twitter’s actions.
Most of the charges Berenson brought against Twitter, including his First Amendment claims, were dismissed by Judge William Alsup. Berenson sought to have his account reinstated and sought to receive monetary compensation for associated damages. In late December 2021, Berenson filed a federal lawsuit in District Court for North California against the social media platform alleging a violation of his first amendment rights. It raises important issues regarding the degree of discretion private corporations should enjoy in restricting the speech of their customers under the rubric of “misinformation,” that do not turn on the merits of Berenson’s personal opinions about vaccines.īerenson, a former New York Times journalist who had gained quite a lot of notoriety because of his outspoken criticisms of the Covid vaccination campaigns, had been “permanently banned” by Twitter back in August 2021 for describing Covid vaccines as “a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.” The case is politically and legally significant, and worthy of comment, irrespective of what one happens to think of Alex Berenson as an individual or whether one agrees with the specifics of his opinions on Covid vaccines. In a landmark settlement, Twitter has publicly acknowledged that it wrongly sanctioned independent journalist Alex Berenson, and agreed to reinstate his suspended account.
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