Straight Outta Kafka

Just after midnight on Monday morning, Twitter locked my account for spreading “misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”

Yikes! What “misleading” and “harmful” information had I shared?

I cited an NPR/Ipsos poll that found 51% of Republicans believe vaccines may cause autism.

Of course, vaccines don’t cause autism. I know this, as does every scientifically literate person.

My tweet was the second in a thread showing an alarmingly high percentage of Republicans believe preposterous falsehoods.

Clearly, I shared this information not to encourage others to believe these ludicrous lies, but to alert people to the fact that a disturbing percentage of GOP voters believe those falsehoods.

My obvious intent evidently eluded the obtuse, hamfisted Twitter moderator who locked my account.

Trump’s false tweets merely get labeled; his account doesn’t get locked, because Twitter values his millions of followers.

But little old me, with just 11,000 followers, is guilty until proven innocent.