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LinkedIn has reinstated the account of mRNA vaccine technology inventor Dr. Robert Malone, who said his page was deleted last week after he made comments about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and questioned whether theyâre appropriate to give to certain groups of people.
In a Twitter post on Monday evening, Malone said heâd received a âvery kind and personal note from a senior executive of LinkedIn,â and shared, with permission, an anonymized version of the message.
âDr. Maloneâs account has been fixed as of this morning,â the note from the LinkedIn official read. âIâd like to apologize on behalf of LinkedInâweâre just not good enough at detangling complicated, subtle scientific claims concurrent with similar (but different) misinformation coming from others.â
Malone said he is âtruly grateful for his kind gesture.â
Last week, Malone wrote on Twitter that his business pays for LinkedIn Premium and that he had been âdeleted.â
In a subsequent tweet, Malone produced an email (pdf) from a LinkedIn representative, who said that his account violated the firmâs user agreement because he posted âmisleading or inaccurate informationâ about vaccines and COVID-19.
Meanwhile his wife, Jill Malone, told Just the News that his personal account was removed without warning or explanation from LinkedIn, a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Recently, Maloneâs claims to Fox News and other news outlets about giving vaccines to individuals under the age of 18 were flagged by several self-claimed âfact-checkingâ sites. Malone told EpochTVâs âThe Nation Speaksâ in late June that heart inflammation reports shift the risk-benefit ratio for children.
âVaccines save lives. These vaccines have saved lives,â Malone said. But he warned that he believes the risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna due to use of the spike protein outweigh the benefits for children.
Speaking to Fox News, Malone said, âI can say that the risk-benefit ratio for those 18 and below doesnât justify vaccines, and thereâs a pretty good chance that it doesnât justify vaccination in these very young adults.â
Shortly after Maloneâs LinkedIn account was reinstated, he took to the platform to say that he will be âmigrating off of this platform now,â adding that it is ânot powered for actual scientific discussion.â
Just hours after that post, Malone said he has been âwarned via second hand informationâ that he will be deleted from LinkedIn again âat a moments notice if I again transgress.â
âSo please forgive me if my discussions here now become quite superficial,â Malone said. âI will be migrating to the blog on my personal website and to trial site news. You may be interested in setting up an account at trial site. I will keep any interested apprised of further developments as they mature.â
The Epoch Times has reached out to LinkedIn for comment.
LinkedInâs move to ban Malone is the latest example of attempts by Big Tech firms to manage reports of âmisinformationâ on their platforms. Recently, Twitter locked Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Martin Kulldorffâs account after he expressed a skeptical viewpoint on whether common surgical masks actually provide protection from COVID-19.
Jack Phillips contributed to this report.