Twitter Puts An End To Prashant Bhushan’s Anti-Vaccine Tweets By Flagging It As ‘Misleading’

If former United States President Donald Trump wasn’t spared for his controversial tweets by social media giant Twitter, what did Indian advocate and activist Prashant Bhushan think was going to happen eventually in his case?

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In the last two days, Bhushan had shared a series of tweets in which he claimed that young people had more chance of dying due to vaccines than due to Covid-19 and its complications.

“The healthy young have hardly any chance of serious effects or dying due to covid. They have a higher chance of dying due to vaccines. The covid recovered have much better natural immunity than the vaccine gives them. Vaccines may even compromise their acquired natural immunity,” he had tweeted.

The healthy young have hardly any chance of serious effects or dying due to covid. They have a higher chance of dying due to vaccines. The covid recovered have much better natural immunity, than the vaccine gives them. Vaccines may even compromise their acquired natural immunity.

— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) June 28, 2021

The Supreme Court advocate had earlier shared a news article in his tweets, about a case where a 45-year-old woman died 10 days after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.

Bhushan said that it was “irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental and untested vaccines especially to young and Covid recovered”.

Soon after his tweet had a blistering response with many social media users slamming him for his irresponsible promoting of vaccine hesitancy in the country.

However, in what was something that was expected, Twitter censured his tweet by bracketing his posts as “misleading”.

But that did not stop Bhushan from responding to such actions, with the advocate using the platform again to criticize the move.

“I have been attacked by many for tweeting about my views on Covid vaccines. The piece below summarises my Vaccine skepticism & the reasons for this. Apart from the vaccines being untested & having serious adverse effects, I am shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views.” he tweeted again.

I have been attacked by many for tweeting about my views on Covid vaccines. The piece below summarises my Vaccine skepticism & the reasons for this. Apart from the vaccines being untested & having serious adverse effects, I am shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views pic.twitter.com/UktE7f7BPt

— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) June 28, 2021

Well, I guess there’s really no way to stop an energized anti-vaxxer like Bhushan.