Plebeian Resistance

Stephane Bancel and his Twitter account

(un)Hiding the evidence

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Richard Seager
Feb 13, 2022
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Stephane has recently put his Twitter account into hibernation. One can only guess why. But you can never really put a Twitter account into complete hibernation. In fact you can almost guarantee that orgs such as the CIA have a complete archive of his, and everyone else’s, tweets.

Two of Stephane’s tweets from 2016 are ‘interesting’ but not damning.

Of course the Salk vaccine went on to injure a hell of a lot of people. So not sure why you would retweet that. But somewhere on Stephane’s timeline there must be something a little more interesting. Here’s some resources for you to go and have a look to see if you can find something.

First of all, all of Stephane’s archived tweets on archive.org. Now some of these are json which are hard to read as they’re mostly code but the text is often in there somewhere, so just screenshot it after you’ve found and highlighted the text;

https://tinyurl.com/2p87snhb

On archive.org the blue dots are archived content (this is what you want), the green dot…

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