Berenson's allegedly ban-worthy claim that the COVID-19 vaccines do not stop infection or transmission does not violate Twitter's policy."īerenson's lawyers argued that Twitter does not offer its own definition of the word "vaccine" while arguing that Berenson's claim about the COVID-19 vaccines being therapeutic drugs instead of vaccines was justified because they are not 100 percent effective at preventing infections.Īlthough the vaccines do not fully "stop" transmission or infection, the same is true of every other vaccine. "It is undisputed that vaccinated persons can contract and spread COVID-19. Berenson's claim that the COVID-19 vaccines do not 'stop infection' or 'transmission' of COVID-19 was true at the time and is true now," Berenson's attorneys state in the lawsuit. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Newsweek that Berenson, a former New York Times journalist, had been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules." Desiree Navarro/WireImage/GettyĪnti-vaccine advocate and writer Alex Berenson, once dubbed "the pandemic's wrongest man" by The Atlantic, has sued Twitter after being banned for violating its policy against COVID-19 misinformation.īerenson was banished from the social media platform in August after claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines are incapable of preventing "infection or transmission" and are actually "therapeutic" drugs rather than vaccines. Berenson is pictured during the 2016 PEN America Literary Gala at New York City's American Museum of Natural History on May 16, 2016. Alex Berenson, whom The Atlantic called "the pandemic's wrongest man" in April, sued Twitter on Monday after being banned from the platform for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policy.
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