Alex Berenson, a journalist, and author, has agreed to settle his lawsuit with Twitter. He sued the social media platform last year after it banned him.
Berenson was banned from Twitter for questioning the efficacy of the Covid vaccines.
โIt doesnโt stop infection. Or transmission,โ Berenson wrote on Twitter at the time. โDonโt think of it as a vaccine. Think of it โ at best โ as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.โ
โAnd we want to mandate it? Insanity.โ
Twitter flagged the tweet as โmisleading,โ and suspended his account.
Berenson took to his Substack, “Unreported Truths,” to break the news of the settlement. He did share many details about the settlement because they are confidential. However, he did insist that he does not believe Elon Muskโs efforts to buy Twitter influenced the companyโs decision to settle.
โAt least from my point of view, Elon Musk had nothing to do with whatโs happening here. I emailed Musk briefly about the suit in April, after Twitter accepted his offer and before Judge William Alsup rejected Twitterโs motion to dismiss and allowed my lawsuit to proceed. (At the hearing on April 28, Alsup himself raised the question of whether Muskโs purchase would make the lawsuit moot.) Musk didnโt email back. The last time Iโve heard from him was last year. Whether the deal played any role in Twitterโs decision to settle is a question youโll have to ask them, but I mostly doubt it, given the fact that no one really knows if โ much less when โ it will close,โ Berenson wrote in his Substack newsletter.