Alex Berenson’s Deplatforming Lawsuit Fails in the Second Circuit–Berenson v. Gottlieb

Generated by ChatGPT Dec. 2025 Alex Berenson is a one-time N.Y. Times reporter whose life appears to have taken an unfortunate turn in the wake of MAGA and COVID. According to his Wikipedia entry: During the coronavirus pandemic, Berenson appeared frequently in American right-wing media, spreading false claims about COVID-19 and its vaccines. He spent much of the pandemic arguing that its seriousness was overblown. Once the COVID-19 vaccines became available, he spread misinformation about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. (A reminder that 1.2M Americans died due to COVID). Berenson aggregated over 200k followers at Twitter who were exposed to his hot takes on COVID and vaccines. That put his account at risk as Twitter cracked down on misinformation and denialism: In May 2020, Twitter announced that it may append labels or warning messages to tweets related to COVID-19 misinformation. Berenson tweeted that he was “concern[ed] about what the new rules might mean for free…