More and more we’re finding out how the corrupt Biden admin sought to censor stuff that wasn’t good for their election chances and now it turns out they were doing the same with opinions about vaccines.
The Daily Caller reports that “The White House pressed Facebook to censor Fox News host Tucker Carlson for saying “vaccines” “don’t work,” according to a document released by Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana.”
“Since we’ve been on the phone – the top post about vaccines today is [T]ucker Carlson saying they don’t work. Yesterday it was Tomi Lehren [sic] saying she won’t take one,” White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty reportedly said in an April 14, 2021 email to an unidentified Facebook employee, which was posted on Twitter by Landry.
Landry along with Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued the Biden administration in federal court on May 5, claiming that members of the administration colluded with social media companies to suppress debate on the 2020 presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues. The court ordered the Biden administration to turn over communications between officials and the tech companies in July.
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Facebook telling the White House how they can censor @RobertKennedyJR pic.twitter.com/zd4yu2lFmU
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) January 6, 2023
“This is exactly why I want to know what ‘Reduction’ actually looks like – if ‘reduction’ means ‘pumping our most vaccine hesitant audience with [T]ucker Carlson saying it doesn’t work’ then… I’m not sure it’s reduction!” Flaherty continued in the document released by Landry.
In response, the unidentified Facebook employee reportedly told Flaherty that they were “running this down now,” according to the document posted by Landry.
The Facebook response reads:
“CMU survey and what we are going to be watching over the next few days. Also, we are proactively monitoring and seeing what themes emerge from content on -platform and happy to share out when we have stuff collected.”
VACCINE HESITANCY EXAMPLES:
The following examples of content are those that do not violate our Misinformation and Harm policy, but may contribute to vaccine hesitancy or present a barrier to vaccination. This includes, for example, content that contains sensational or alarmist vaccine misrepresentation, disparaging others based on the choice to or to not vaccinate, true but shocking claims or personal anecdotes, or discussing the choice to vaccinate in terms of personal and civil liberties or concerns related to mistrust in institutions or individuals. We utilize a spectrum of levers for this kind of content that is both proportionate and also helps our users make informed decisions.
Actions may include reducing the posts’ distribution, not suggesting the posts to users, limiting their discoverability in Search, and applying Inform Labels and/or reshare friction to the posts. Depending on the category of content, we scale our interventions to have the highest public health impact, while understanding that healthy debate and expression is important.
“Landry’s post did not note how the document was obtained,” The DC added.
He added that “Government censorship is bi-partisan. If they don’t like you, they will censor you. NO ONE is safe when the first amendment is violated!”
Government censorship is bi-partisan. If they don't like you, they will censor you. NO ONE is safe when the first amendment is violated!
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) January 6, 2023
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