Musk's Twitter blocked ads promoting COVID lab leak theory for violating 'content policy'

Twitter has blocked a watchdog group from placing advertisements promoting the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis on its platform, according to emails obtained by the Washington Examiner.

White Coat Waste Project, a group tracking federal spending that investigates National Institutes of Health grants, had 10 paid tweets and a video ad rejected on March 3 by the social media giant, emails show. Twitter alleged that the ads, which include claims about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lab leak hypothesis, and taxpayer-backed animal experiments, make "distasteful references to COVID-19" and violated its "Inappropriate Content Policy."

"The more things change, the more they stay the same," Justin Goodman, the watchdog's senior vice president for advocacy and public policy, told the Washington Examiner.

"Even under Elon Musk, the partisans and parasites at Twitter are still abusing their authority and censoring the truth. ... It's shameful that Twitter is preventing us from simply letting taxpayers know about our work to stop big government bureaucrats from wasting $20 billion of their hard-earned money on cruel and dangerous animal experiments," Goodman added.