Joe Rogan Experience #2532 - Tim Robbins · Aired Jul 29, 2026
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MIT and Harvard experts were deplatformed from Twitter for questioning the effectiveness of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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The Harvard half checks out but the MIT half doesn't hold up as well. Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, a co-author of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration, really did get suspended and blacklisted on Twitter over his COVID posts. But there's no solid record of an MIT expert being deplatformed for questioning lockdown effectiveness specifically, so lumping MIT in with Harvard overstates the case.
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Is it true that MIT and Harvard experts were deplatformed from Twitter for questioning the effectiveness of COVID-19 lockdowns?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The Harvard half checks out but the MIT half doesn't hold up as well. Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, a co-author of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration, really did get suspended and blacklisted on Twitter over his COVID posts. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2532 - Tim Robbins, aired Jul 29, 2026, at 32:53. The supporting source is dailysceptic.org, linked below.
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