Twitter bans Dr. Robert Malone, mRNA vaccine inventor

Dr. Robert Malone — one of the inventors of mRNA vaccines and an outspoken critic of pandemic related mandates — has been permanently banned from Twitter.

The Epoch Times originally reported on this story.

Malone, who had gained more than 500,000 followers on Twitter, took to Substack on Wednesday to confirm that his account was “permanently suspended from Twitter” and said, “We all knew it would happen eventually.”

“Over a half million followers gone in a blink of an eye. That means I must have been on the mark, so to speak,” he wrote. “Over the target. It also means we lost a critical component in our fight to stop these vaccines being mandated for children and to stop the corruption in our governments, as well as the medical-industrial complex and pharmaceutical industries.”

Malone continued to direct users to visit his Substack page for future updates.

“Substack is absolutely the best way to see my writings. I appreciate everyone’s support in signing up for my newsletter. It truly matters to me,” he noted.

Twitter has yet to issue a public comment yet on why it suspended Malone’s account, but Malone told The Epoch Times on Wednesday that the social media site did not provide him with advanced notice before handing down the suspension.

“Over the past year, I have had a few notices from Twitter that there was a complaint about a post but that no action was taken,” he said. “I received no warning prior to the banning.”

He did, however, receive a text from Twitter that stated he was banned, “Specifically, for: Violating our policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19. You may not use Twitter’s services to share false or misleading information about COVID-19 which may lead to harm.”

In an interview earlier this year, Malone told The Epoch Times that the immunity conferred by a previous COVID-19 infection is superior to that conferred by any COVID-19 vaccine.

People are “faced with a situation where they had been told that natural immunity was not as protective, that they can’t rely on that; that if you’ve been previously infected, you should still get both doses of vaccine; that this vaccination would provide broad durable protection, it would protect you and it would protect your elders from you potentially spreading disease to them,” he said.

Twitter has come under attack by free speech advocates and Republicans after banning high-profile individuals, including former President Donald Trump and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson.

Berenson sued Twitter last week, alleging his suspension violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment and federal and California laws.

“Twitter is indisputably a messenger service. A longstanding California law regulates messenger services as ‘common carriers.’ This means that they must accept all messages they receive. Twitter thus must accept all tweets it receives. It has no First Amendment rights to refuse them on the basis that it does not agree with them,” he wrote on Substack.