Joe Rogan Experience #2566 - Cody Tucker · Aired Oct 15, 2026
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Intelligence agencies directed Twitter to remove accounts that were posting factual information inconvenient to the Biden administration's COVID-19 policies.
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The Twitter Files did show government pressure over COVID content. The Biden team was "very angry" that Twitter hadn't deplatformed more anti-vaxxer accounts, such as Alex Berenson's, and Twitter did suppress some doctors. But that pressure was documented from the White House, and Twitter executives did not fully go along. The Stanford scientist Jay Bhattacharya was placed on a trends blacklist by Twitter's own staff. The files show intelligence agencies mainly dealing with election and foreign-influence content, not directing COVID account removals. A Twitter Files document showing an intelligence agency ordering removal of COVID accounts would flip this verdict.
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Is it true that Intelligence agencies directed Twitter to remove accounts that were posting factual information inconvenient to the Biden administration's COVID-19 policies?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The Twitter Files did show government pressure over COVID content. The Biden team was "very angry" that Twitter hadn't deplatformed more anti-vaxxer accounts, such as Alex Berenson's, and Twitter did suppress some doctors. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2566 - Cody Tucker, aired Oct 15, 2026, at 1:38:38. The supporting source is promarket.org, linked below.
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