October 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The foundress of a growing doctors group that is critical of the government’s and the media’s response to COVID-19 is looking for legal redress after she says she was fired from her hospital job, defamed by mainstream media, and censored by various social media platforms for her stance on the handling of the virus.
Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician, attorney, and foundress of America’s Frontline Doctors (AFD), has hired Nick Sandmann’s attorney, Lin Wood, to represent her interests.
Gold claims she was fired from the hospitals where she worked for remarks she made during a July 27 AFD press conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. At the event, the doctors criticized what they called a “massive disinformation campaign” regarding COVID-19 and championed hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for the virus.
Breitbart posted a video of the press conference that went viral, racking up over 17 million views in eight hours before it was pulled by social media.
Dr. Gold told LifeSiteNews that Wood and Mike Pike will be representing her in potential lawsuits against the hospitals she was fired from, as well as in defamation and censorship cases. Dr. Gold told LifeSiteNews that she is not naming the hospitals at this time and is currently “negotiating with hospitals.”
In an August 4 interview with Sebastian Gorka on his America First radio show, Dr. Gold explained that she was told “flat out” that she was being fired from the hospitals where she worked as a board-certified emergency physician because of the video of her July 27 press conference in Washington, D.C.
“I was told that because I appeared in an embarrassing video speaking about hydroxychloroquine that my services would no longer be needed,” Dr. Gold said.
PETITION UPDATE (12/11/2020)
Right before Thanksgiving, YouTube deleted a LifeSite video of a distinguished Canadian physician protesting the "unfounded public hysteria" over COVID-19 and accused us of spreading "medical misinformation."
Our account was suspended, and we were prohibited from posting videos on our YouTube channel for one week. And, while that may not seem like a big deal, it's a huge deal for a news organization like LifeSite.
Then, earlier this week, YouTube again suspended our account – this time for two weeks – over an episode of The Bishop Strickland Show wherein Bishop Strickland said he would not take an unethical COVID-19 vaccine.
We were able to appeal the suspension, and our request was granted.
This means that in YouTube's three-strikes-and-you're-out content-policing, idea-cleansing scheme, we are back down to one strike. But, we still face the threat of losing our account permanently.
And, we're not the only ones.
In a recent turn of events, YouTube just announced that it will remove videos alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
But, what is YouTube afraid of? The truth???
Thankfully, however, there is a one, big bright spot on the horizon: 48 states filed suit against Facebook just this week.
And, although this seems like a step in the right direction, the draconian measures which YouTube just rolled out, which are already wielded by Twitter, are an assault against free speech.
So, the fight for freedom of speech against Big Tech goes on. And, we must do everything we can to protect it!
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-youtube-reverses-ban-on-lifesitenews?
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PETITION UPDATE (11/18/2020)
Everyone thought the censorship by Big Tech corporations would decrease after the 2020 election, but the truth is that censorship is being felt just as much as it was before the election.
And, given the election outcome, perhaps Big Tech censorship now is even more consequential than it was before the election!
The two biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and other Big Tech companies, are still censoring and suppressing stories and posts favorable to conservatives, and especially anything that has to do with election fraud.
Here are a few recent examples:
- Women for America First organized the March for Trump on November 14, which was shut down by Facebook, MailChimp and Eventbrite. Despite Big Tech’s best efforts to cancel the event, the march went on and gathered a huge crowd.
- Twitter has been suppressing a large number of President Trump’s Tweets. Most of his Tweets have been flagged arbitrarily with a warning stating: “This claim about election fraud is disputed."
Please READ this recent article about Big Tech's attempt to choke information conerning the recent Million MAGA March in Washington, DC: '5 things mainstream media won’t tell you about massive DC ‘Stop the Steal’ rally'
Then, please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
PETITION UPDATE (10/15/2020)
In a remarkable development, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham have announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas to Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg for their company's suppression of two critical expose news stories about how Hunter Biden and the Biden Family allegedly profited from business deals made because of Joe Biden's position as Vice President.
Please WATCH LifeSite's exclusive video of the announcement by Senator Ted Cruz below.
According to the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, the subpoenas will be issued next Tuesday, for hearings to be held on Friday of next week.
This is a MASSIVE development, and should be welcomed by those who champion freedom of speech.
Again, this is all happening because Twitter and Facebook refuse to allow their members to share stories which would be favorable to conservatives.
Here's the timeline:
Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook suppressed a NY Post story about how Hunter Biden allegedly profited from introducing a Ukrainian businessman to his then-Vice President father, Joe Biden. The story also alleges that Vice President Biden then subsequently pressured Ukrainian authorities to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the businessman's company.
And, just this morning, Twitter suppressed another expose by the NY Post alleging that the Biden Family improperly profitted from deals made with one of the largest Chinese energy companies because of Vice President Biden's position in government.
But, right after the story broke, Senator Cruz tried to share the latest story on Twitter and was blocked. Twitter says that they are blocking the stories because they claim that the information was obtained illegally. However, Twitter showed no problem allowing illegally obtained information about President Trump's tax returns to be shared.
Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
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'GOP senators decry Big Tech censorship of NY Post story exposing Biden corruption' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gop-senators-decry-big-tech-censorship-of-ny-post-story-exposing-biden-corruption
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PETITION UPDATE (9/17/2020)
Big Tech is out to kill free speech. LifeSite is out to protect it!
LifeSite has been digging deep into the many claims of liberal bias and selective censorship of pro-life, pro-family, and conservative voices on social media.
And, we are now launching our new series 'Uncensored: Big Tech vs. Free Speech', which will unpack how the actions of Big Tech censors actually affect conservative and Christian organization and individuals.
Please WATCH the first video in our series featuring Brigitte Gabriel, the Founder of ACT For America, one of the nation's premier national security grassroots organizations.
Ms. Gabriel's organization, ACT For America, has been targeted by Big Tech especially in the manipulation of search results.
Big Tech “think[s] they are God and they are exercising their godly power over everybody else,” Gabriel explained. "Because in today's world, anytime you want to find out any information about somebody, what do you do? Google. You go to the internet to find out some information about them. When you research anything about somebody, the first thing that comes up [in the search results] is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of ‘hate groups.’”
“And who are the ‘hate groups’? Family Research Council is a hate group because they are pro-family. American Family Radio is a hate group…LifeSiteNews is a hate group. My organization is a hate group because we sound the alarm about terrorism and protecting our constitutional freedom. And so they try to character assassinate you. And they control the language.”
LifeSite's research shows that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others have become far too dangerous for democracy.
They can and do sway elections and public opinion in whatever direction they want, primarily by manipulating search results, tracking our online behavior, and by blocking truthful content from their platforms.
Today, LifeSite is starting to fight back, with facts and with stories of conservatives and Christians who are being negatively impacted by Big Tech's liberal bias.
Please continue to follow our 'Big Tech vs. Free Speech' series which aims to launch a new video each week for the next eight weeks.
And, please sign our petition demanding that Big Tech monopolies are broken up. Thank you!
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ORIGINAL PETITION BACKGROUND TEXT:
The outrageous erasing of the White Coat Summit from the internet is only the latest in a long series of brazen acts of censorship against conservatives and all those who support legitimate free speech.
You may agree or disagree with the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, but everyone should agree on this point:
No Big Tech company should have the power to erase from the internet the medical opinions of licensed practicing doctors simply because they do not like what they have to say about the coronavirus or their experience treating it. Americans and other free peoples do not need leftist computer programmers deciding what the best course of medical treatment is for them.
Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and their Big Tech friends want to control what you see, what you read, what you think, and ultimately, how you vote. Not only do they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying congress and buttering up big Washington DC think tanks, but now they brazenly and directly censor any content they don't want you to see.
Big Tech, like other interest groups, aggressively lobby to help their businesses thrive, but increasingly, Big Tech is using blatant internet censorship to impose its radical world view over those they consider to be "deplorables."
This must stop, but it won't unless we demand it as forcefully as legally possible. We believe that we have reached the point were Big Tech must be broken up if legitimate free speech is going to survive and continue to thrive on the internet.
Please sign our petition to demand real consequences for Big Tech's suppression of legitimate free speech.
In 2016, emails revealed by Fox News' Tucker Carlson proved that Google tried to influence the election by affecting voter turnout. Thankfully they failed. But they didn't give up. Instead, they have been preparing and testing how to manipulate information to continue to abuse their monopolistic power.
In 2018, Google/Youtube et. al. succeeded in manipulating the Irish abortion referendum by blacklisting pro-life videos, manipulating pro-life search terms and results and intentionally withholding pro-life information. Again, this is not an opinion or a conspiracy theory, Project Veritas obtained first hand information proving the intentional censorship by Big Tech.
And the Coronavirus has just made things worse. You see, scared people are more easily manipulated into giving up their freedom of speech. Children are being kept from going to school, tens of millions of Americans are out of work, and rioting has broken out in most major American cities.
Now, more than ever, freedom of speech is necessary to secure all of our freedoms. Freedom of speech is crucial to truly exercise the freedom to vote for the person that best represents one's own views, or the freedom to decide what course of medical treatment to accept - especially the decision to control what vaccines are administered to our children.
Some experts, like Dr. Robert Epstein, a behavioral psychologist who has testified before congress against Big Tech believes that we may already be too late to control Big Tech's tyrannical control over information.
President Trump took a step in the right direction with his Executive Order calling for increased regulation of Big Tech. But much more can be done and needs to be done right now.
In an era where almost everything is polarized, there is an overwhelming support for breaking up the Big Tech monopolies. A recent Pew poll found that 75% of Americans believe that Big Tech companies have too much influence.
It is time to bring serious accountability to Big Tech for their attempts to use their monopolies to kill free speech.
It is time to break up Big Tech.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Google, Facebook, Twitter shut down ‘frontline’ US doctors who promote ‘cure for COVID’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/google-facebook-twitter-shut-down-frontline-us-doctors-who-promote-cure-for-covid?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard
Americans overwhelmingly agree Big Tech has too much power: Pew poll - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll
Leaked Google employee's email reveals effort to boost Latino vote, surprise that some voted for Trump - https://www.foxnews.com/tech/leaked-google-employees-email-reveals-effort-to-boost-latino-vote-surprise-that-some-voted-for-trump
Undercover video proves Google interfered in Irish abortion referendum - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll
“At one hospital, I was getting a tremendous amount of grief for prescribing hydroxychloroquine. The other didn’t fuss as much, but they both let me go,” she revealed.
Asked if her employers stated what was wrong with the video, Dr. Gold said, “No, just that it was embarrassing.”
In the video deemed “embarrassing,” Dr. Gold addressed Americans as part of the first annual White Coat Summit of America’s Frontline Doctors, a group Dr. Gold founded to “empower” the voices of frontline doctors and combat “special interests that would seek to push financial and political agendas above patient interests,” according to their website.
Dr. Gold stated at the July 27 press conference, “Americans are riveted and captured by fear at the moment. We are not held down by the virus as much as we’re being held down by this spider web of fear. That spider web is all around us. And it’s constricting us and it’s draining the lifeblood of the American people, American society, and American economy.”
Dr. Gold is also planning to file lawsuits to fight back against the aggressive censorship of her message about treatment of COVID-19. The most high-profile censorship of Dr. Gold and the Frontline Doctors was the banning on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook of the very viral video that Dr. Gold was fired for.
Dr. Gold told LifeSiteNews that defamation and censorship lawsuits will be filed in 2021.
President Donald J. Trump had shared the video on his Twitter account, only to have it later censored by Twitter. According to a Twitter spokesperson, tweets with the video violated their “COVID-19 misinformation policy.” His son, Donald Trump Jr., had his Twitter account temporarily suspended for sharing the same video.
A Facebook spokesman, Andy Stone, told Breitbart that the social media organization removed the video “for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19.”
Facebook also referred to the removal of “harmful COVID-19-related misinformation” in comments to CNN. It did not specify what exactly was harmful about the information.
Dr. Marcus Zervos co-authored a July 2 study that found hydroxychloroquine to be effective in treating COVID-19. There are also numerous studies demonstrating hydroxychloroquine’s safety and effectiveness.
The censorship of the Frontline Doctors’ message has been so sweeping that even their website was taken offline not long after their press conference on July 27. Gold confirmed via Twitter that their hosting provider, Squarespace, shut them down for violating their “Acceptable Use Policy,” sharing a July 28 notice accusing them of “activity that is fraudulent, false, inaccurate, or deceiving.”
Defamatory attacks against Dr. Gold have been part of the collateral damage of her censorship. She tweeted in August that she has been “viciously attacked,” in addition to being fired and censored, “all for advocating for the right of physicians to prescribe what they believe is best for their patients.”
Wood is known for having taken on some of the nation’s highest-profile defamation cases, including defamation lawsuits on behalf of Sandmann, the Covington (Kentucky) Catholic High School student, against major media outlets such as CNN.
Dr. Gold first revealed that she was hiring Wood as an attorney in a July 30 interview with Tucker Carlson. “I would ask people to stop saying negative things about me. We’ve hired Lin Wood to help me in this matter, and I hope that puts to rest anything that people might want to say that’s defamatory,” Dr. Gold said.
Just a day before Dr. Gold’s interview with Carlson, Wood had retweeted a thread by Dr. Gold, adding the message:
“TRUTH from a courageous, professional physician @drsimonegold. We are being played by the likes of @BillGates. Dr. Gold & her colleagues have been falsely accused & censored. Why? By Whom? Follow the money. Freedom Loving Americans must #FightBack.”
Dr. Gold announced in her own tweet on September 24, “We are now launching lawsuits & challenging the constitutionality of lockdown orders. We have counsel ready to file in California, Texas, and New York. We are asking for the public’s support to make this happen.”
Dr. Gold told LifeSiteNews on October 28, “Currently, we are proceeding in California, but at this time we are not filing in Texas or New York, although that decision may change.”