Illinois Valley Times

Gov. J.B. Pritzker critic Dr. Martin Kulldorff was targeted by the FBI, which sought to lessen his impact on the Covid debate, according to the latest release of the Twitter files.

Kulldorff is an epidemiologist and biostatistician who has taught at the highest levels of the profession as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

“THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*” journalist David Zweig said on Twitter. 

In a thread, Zweig revealed then Twitter executives conspired to lessen the impact of voices, even from experts like Kulldorff that did not align with government narratives. Google, Facebook and Microsoft were also part of the discussions, according to Zweig. 

“Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing,” Zweig reported.

Kulldorff was a noted critic of Pritzker, who oversaw one of the deadliest public outbreaks during the pandemic at the LaSalle Veterans Home.

“Deadly consequences. Illinois @GovPritzker and @IDPH pushed ineffective school closures and lockdowns instead of focusing on protecting older high-risk citizens. Result? One example: In November 2020, in one single veterans' home, 36 dead,” Kulldorff tweeted in May 2022.

The Pritzker administration has been implicated in the deaths of 36 veterans at the Illinois Veterans' Home in LaSalle. Republican lawmakers of the House Veterans Affairs Committee interrogated the former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health Ngozi Ezike during a hearing in 2021. 

At the time, Republican leaders attacked the Pritzker administration's handling of the outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans' Home, prompting the need for the hearings. Linda Chapa LaVia, the previous director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, resigned as a result of the fatalities.

After the news broke, Kulldorff went on a podcast and discussed the item. He tweeted a line from Trish Wood who interviewed him on the issue. 

“‘Big Tech, legacy media and [scientific] institutions worked together to quash scientific debate — no matter how credentialed the voices.’ - @WoodReporting" Kulldorff said on Twitter.

The Twitter Files is a so-far 12-part series written by renowned journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger and Zweig. “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” Taibbi said in a tweet. 

Taibbi added that former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth had received 150 emails from the FBI from January 2020 to November 2022. One email from the FBI San Francisco office found that Included in those communications were successful attempts to suppress viable information such as the Hunter Biden laptop story before the November 2020 election.

Pritzker – who is worth an estimated $3.4 billion – gave $1.4 million of his wealth to President Joe Biden’s election campaign in 2020.