Critics are slamming Twitter after its fact-checkers added a 'misleading' alert to an obituary about a young woman who reportedly died after contracting a rare blood-clotting disease induced by the COVID-19 vaccine.
Twitter user Kelly Bee shared the obituary for Jessica Berg Wilson, of Seattle, with the caption 'an "exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old young mother with no underlying health conditions," passed away from COVID Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia. She did not want to get vaccinated.'
Twitter flagged the tweet as 'misleading' with a link to an article on 'why health officials consider COVID-19 vaccines safe for most people.' The tweet was also 'shadow banned,' meaning it cannot be replied to, shared or liked.
Wilson, a 37-year-old mother-of-two, died on September 7 of Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia, a rare blood disease in which tiny clots form throughout the body, destroying platelets and preventing the blood from reaching vital organs, according to the obituary.
The tweet came from an unverified Twitter user named Kelly Bee, who shared the The Oregonian's obituary for Jessica Berg Wilson, of Seattle
Most critics were disgusted that Twitter was 'censoring' an obituary and reacting by encouraging their followers to help it go viral despite the company's alert. Kelly Bee posted it Friday and Twitter has since removed the 'misleading' label and lifted the shadow ban. The tweet garnered 7,193 quote tweets, 4,167 retweets and 4,222 likes as of Sunday night.
After posting it Friday, Kelly Bee followed up with another tweet and wrote, 'Twitter has shadow banned this obituary for being 'misleading.' It's not. Please RT, so this BS backfires on them.'
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy tweeted the obituary with the caption, 'For [on Twitter] we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead,' unless of course it contradicts what Dr. Fauci or the enlightened government and tech overlords say you must do for your healthcare… #HealthcareFreedom.'
Sebastian Gorka, who served in the Department of Defense under former President Donald Trump, tagged Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a post asking what about the obituary is misleading. He wrote, 'Hey @jack, Jessica was healthy and died. Why are you censoring that fact as 'misleading??' '
Twitter's fact checkers added a 'misleading' label to an obituary about a young woman who died after contracting a disease induced by the COVID-19 vaccine. The woman, Jessica Berg Wilson, is pictured above with her husband Tom and their daughters Clara (left), 3, and Bridget, 5
A number of conservative bloggers also retweeted the obituary, including Ben Domenech, a writer for The Federalist, who wrote, 'Who @Twitter decided it was okay to say an OBITUARY is 'misleading'?'
