New Batch of Twitter Files Makes Clear the Lengths Big Pharma Went Through to Lobby Social Media

The new editions of Twitter Files keep on coming. Earlier on Monday we were treated to another one to do with COVID-19, in this case specifically as it applied to how Big Pharma was in league with social media to push their narrative. . .

2. In 2020, it was clear that the pandemic would require rapid innovation. Early on, there was a push to make the solution equitable: an international partnership to share ideas, technology, new forms of medicine to rapidly solve this crisis. https://t.co/L4QNcCCzCE

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) January 16, 2023

In a revelation that’s hardly surprising, Fang points to how Big Pharma “saw the crisis as an opportunity for unprecedented profit.” This included shutting out others who could help with treatments and vaccines. As Fang put it, “pharma launched a massive lobbying blitz to crush any effort to share patents/IP…”

That meant directly reaching out to the then new Biden administration to demand sanctions against countries that sought to provide low-cost vaccines, with Fang linking to an article he wrote for The Intercept on March 3, 2021. Among those countries that were asked to be punished included Hungary, Colombia, and Chile. (Read more from “New Batch of Twitter Files Makes Clear the Lengths Big Pharma Went Through to Lobby Social Media” HERE)

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