Drugmaker BioNTech and the German government pushed Twitter to “hide” posts by activists calling on Big Pharma to temporarily lift patents on Covid-19 vaccines.
Twitter lobbyist Nina Morschhaeuser “flagged the corporate accounts of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca for her colleagues to monitor and shield from activists,” according to’s Lee Fang. An email from Morschhaeuser said the German Federal Office for Information Security also contacted Twitter on behalf of BioNTech, whose spokesperson, Jasmina Alatovic, asked the social media giant to “hide” activist tweets targeting her company’s account for two days.
Morschhaeuser, meanwhile, requested that colleagues track the hashtags #PeoplesVaccine — a movement for the temporary lifting of patent protections — and #JoinCTAP, a reference to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool. Morschhaeuser further warned that the advocacy group Global Justice Now shared an online signup form for a December 2020 People’s Vaccine Day of Action.
“The allegations in this article suggest that government and industry tried to silence legitimate criticism during a crisis,” Maaza Seyoum, Global South convener at the People’s Vaccine Alliance, said in a Monday. “At a time when online mobilizations were one of the few forms of protest available to the public, Twitter was seemingly asked to shield the powerful from criticism. That should worry all those who care about accountability.”
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