The second installment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" confirmed that Twitter was secretly "blacklisting" certain users and tweets that didn't align with the platform's left-leaning agenda.

Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of many on the platform's "blacklist," according to information revealed Thursday by The Free Press reporter Bari Weiss. 

Bhattacharya was secretly blacklisted because he "argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children," and was thus unable to trend on the platform, Weiss reported in a Twitter thread.

The medical professional spoke with Laura Ingraham about the revelation Thursday night.

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On "The Ingraham Angle," Bhattacharya said the suppression of his voice, which questioned much of Dr. Anthony Fauci's guidance and the COVID-19 policies, ultimately harmed data, children and the American public. 

He believes he was essentially silenced because the opposing "arguments were not strong enough to survive the light of day."

"If we had an open discussion, Laura, the schools would not have closed in the fall of 2020. If we had an open discussion, the lockdowns would have been lifted much earlier because the data and evidence behind them was so bad," he said on the show.

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He stated that open, "free and fair" conversations should have been allowed on social media during the pandemic to avoid the "harmfulness" of the lockdowns and the forced vaccination campaigns.

He added that he never once used threatening language toward a person, only Dr. Fauci's thoughts.

"They've gone way too far," Bhattacharya said. "It's one thing to suppress violent threats against people."

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The professor also told Ingraham he has no clue who requested that he be on Twitter's "blacklist," but he believes "very strongly" there was government direction in the decision.

Bhattacharya said he joined a lawsuit filed by doctors and scientists against the Biden administration over the social media censorship related to COVID-19 information. He said the lawsuit has "uncovered tremendous evidence" that federal agencies directed social media platforms about who and what to censor.

"Every American should be outraged," Bhattacarya said.

Bhattacharya is also an economist who serves as director of Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. 

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has arrived back in the United States, landing at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base in Texas early Friday morning.

Griner, who was freed from Russian detention on Thursday in a high-profile prisoner swap, landed at approximately 3 a.m. local time.

She was then transferred to a medical facility. 

Friday is the first time Griner has set foot in the U.S. since she was incarcerated by Russia 10 months ago. Her freedom followed months of negotiations between Washington and Moscow.

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Griner was released in a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is known as the "merchant of death."

"She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home," Biden said on Thursday.

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The president made the announcement from the White House accompanied by Griner's wife, Cherelle, and administration officials.

The deal was finalized after Russia showed it was unwilling to free U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, a Marine and Iraqi war veteran Russia arrested in 2018 for allegedly conducting intelligence work, the White House said. Whelan was convicted in 2020.

"This was not a choice for us on which American to bring home. It was a choice between bringing home one American or none," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday.

The exchange caused some backlash as Bout was previously convicted of selling weapons used in the killing of Americans.

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"This was someone who had conspired to sell AK-47s that he knew would have been used to kill Americans — American drug agents. Law enforcement officials may not be happy with his release. What is the president's message to them and to others who say essentially that this was a bad deal?" a White House reporter asked Jean-Pierre.

Jean-Pierre answered: "The president felt a moral obligation to bring Brittney home. There was an opportunity to do that, and it was either Brittney or no one at all, and we are not going to apologize for that."

Bout has already returned to Russia as Russian TV showed him walking off a plane on a snow-covered tarmac in Moscow.

His mother and wife were there to greet him.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.