NOMICRON: TikTok SCRUBS MRC Video Knocking COVID-19 Containment Measures

TikTok (affiliated Chinese Communist Party) censored Pro-Free Speech Media Research Center, for the third consecutive time in just three months.

The platform then targeted Brittany Hughes, MRCTV Managing Editor.

MRC posted an episode of Hughes’ Reality Check web series in which she opined on government response measures to the COVID-19 omicron variant.

TikTok removed the video for “violating Community Guidelines” after it received nearly 58,000 views. The platform erroneously claimed that Hughes’ content violated “applicable laws,” even though U.S. laws protect free speech and inspire the independent thinking that Hughes engaged in.

TikTok informed MRC Wednesday that the appeal for reinstatement of content had been rejected without providing any explanations.

TikTok did not make the statement(s), in the 54 second video, it initially found to be problematic. Hughes, however, criticized both liberal and government responses to omicron throughout.

Hughes opens the video saying: “Let’s talk about the horrible, super-contagious new variant of the disease that never ends, that the left is now using to call for school closures, extra masks, more vaccine mandates and all manner of insanity.”

Reality Check censorship was not the first time Big Tech has censored MRC.

On Nov. 22, Facebook fact-checker PolitiFact downgraded a post by MRCTV blogger Nick Kangadis contrasting the justice system’s harsh treatment of self-defense shooter Kyle Rittenhouse and the one-day pre-trial imprisonment of school shooter Timothy Simpkins.

TikTok initially removed a Nov. 5 video of MRCTV and Culture Director Eric Scheiner critiquing the liberal media’s reaction to Republican victories in the 2021 off-year election. TikTok decided to appeal the decision and restored the video in less than an hour.

And on Oct. 15, TikTok removed an episode of MRC’s CensorTrack With TR, 15 days after it was posted, because of an unexplained “Community Guidelines violation.” In that episode, MRC staff writer/researcher Tierin-Rose Mandelburg discussed censored Project Veritas videos that used a hidden camera to expose insider comments from government employees and Johnson & Johnson.

In Hughes’ censored Reality Check episode, she noted an about-face by Los Angeles schools in requiring teachers to use N95 masks instead of cloth masks, a petition by Chicago teachers to teach from home and considerations by U.S. government bureaucrats to impose a second COVID-19 booster shot.

“Are you people high?” Hughes said during the video. “Aren’t y’all done? Is it the hysteria that has made you so addicted? It’s like it’s become the left’s new religion.”

Her comments included that omicron deaths are declining, even though they are increasing.

Bloomberg reported that despite the fact that cases increased 60 percent over December’s final week, deaths dropped 7 percent to an average daily rate of 1,100.

Beijing-based ByteDance has a, while the company also owns an internal group that includes members of the CCP.

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