UnitedHealth got a docuseries removed from Amazon and Vimeo – User Mag

The journalist David Enrich has an excellent piece out in The New York Times about UnitedHealth’s legal quest to silence speech criticizing the company. Since the murder of executive Brian Thompson last year, UnitedHealth has invoked Thompson’s death to try to get critical coverage of the company removed or censored from news outlets, on streaming services, and across social media. Amazon and Vimeo both removed a docuseries that harshly criticized the U.S. health care industry after pressure from UnitedHealth. The Guardian also postponed publishing an investigation after UnitedHealth sued over a previous article. In the past few months alone, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor, activists and more. From David’s article : In early January, Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas, posted a self-made video on TikTok and Instagram that described how she had interrupted breast-reconstruction surgery to respond to a phone call from UnitedHealth about whether the insurer would cover a patient’s stay at a hospital. The call had come to the operating room’s phone line, leading her to believe it was urgent. “Insurance is out of control,” Dr. Potter said in the video. “I have no other
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