Censorship is Alive and Well on "The Only Major Platform that Doesn't Censor Beyond What is Legally Required"
Either Elon Musk lied or changed his mind sometime in the past 14 months or it is now illegal to link to the 'Vaxxed' documentary in the United States. Which is it?
It’s been a stormy week on the Oregon coast with internet and electrical outages punctuating my daily routine, so when I went to post a link to Del Bigtree’s ‘Vaxxed’ documentary on X and saw the standard “Something went wrong, but don’t fret— let’s give it another shot” error, I figured it was just another internet glitch and I waited a bit, hit the ‘Reply’ button again, got the error again, waited again, hit the ‘Reply’ button again, got the error again, etc., etc. … Anyway, after more cycles than I care to count or admit, I noticed a pop-up-then-quickly-disappear message which said:
“We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our help center to learn more.”
Please forgive the poor quality of this image due to it being a photo instead of a screen capture, owing to the speed necessary to catch the blue pop-up before it disappeared.
I took out the link and the text alone posted just fine. So, it really was the case that X has a problem with the link to ‘Vaxxed’.
There is, of course, absolutely nothing harmful about Del Bigtree’s ‘Vaxxed’ documentary, unless you’re a vaccine producer scared shitless of being held legally liable for decades of harming millions of children and lying about it, paying others to lie about it and paying still others to make people shut up when they refuse to be paid to lie about it.
As of December 2025, I could still post a QR code with a link to the documentary, thusly:
Someone has gone to great lengths to scrub the internet of the Vaxxed documentary. The first four links to “Vaxxed full film” in my search list 404’d. Thank God for Mike Adams and Brighteon.
So, I am understandably annoyed with X about this censorship, but what am I going to do about it? It’s not like I can publish an article on X anymore because I let my premium subscription expire after X stopped showing more than about 50 of my 7500 followers any of my typical posts and raised their subscription price to more than a dollar a day so I and my fellow X subscribers could help fund a toxic AI server center in Alabama that pumps out air pollution for local residents in addition to generated images of cats playing strings in chamber orchestras.
Then I thought of you, my brothers and sisters here on substack, who have endured years of X-censorship when X deboosts links to our substack articles and refuses to embellish any substack links with extracted graphics and titles like X does for virtually every other news site and like X used to do for even us lowly substack authors. We have taken a stand here on substack and we can and will read each other and write for each other and be seen by each other here, if nowhere else, so that we can post links like this one:
https://www.brighteon.com/c6996913-c1a3-437d-b5c5-14303ad63822
And not be denied or get error messages.
Are we, here on substack now to take up the mantle of “The Only Major Platform that Doesn’t Censor Beyond What is Legally Required”?
So it appears to me. I’ll be spending more time here on substack and considerably less on X going forward.
UPDATE 1/16/2026: How you can Help
First confirm if you are still unable to share the above link in a post on X. If so, please complete the following steps:
Choose “Authenticity on X” (if not already there)
For “What Issue are you having? (required)” choose “I’m not able to share a link in a post”
For “Please share the link…” enter “https://www.brighteon.com/c6996913-c1a3-437d-b5c5-14303ad63822”
Click submit button.
Reported.
Edit: heads up. When I pasted the link from your article, I got a broken page.
I manually navigated to the page and this link seems to work and take you directly there: https://help.x.com/en/forms/authenticity
Thank god for Substack and Rumble