The Biden Administration has been aggressively censoring views that oppose the left-wing ideology of the democratic party. The tools used for such disgusting tactics are not government agencies but the very social media platforms we use on a daily basis.
New evidence. The Biden administration ordered social media companies to censor ideas — true or false — inconvenient for their agenda. And then issued unmistakable threats for noncompliance. Effectively, "Nice company you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it." https://t.co/AWH20XVMzM
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) July 27, 2023
The Daily Caller News Foundation has gotten its hands on documentation that proves Robert Flaherty, the former Biden Director of Digital Strategy, has been caught pressuring Facebook to alter its algorithm to promote corporate news outlets over conservative sources.
On April 14 in a call between the White House and Facebook, Flaherty “suggested” to Facebook officials that conservative outlets should be bypassed for more “trusted” media sources. The suggestions made by Flaherty were shown in documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.
On Thursday, newly-released files show that the Biden Administration actively pressured the social media giant Facebook to censor meme posts that made fun of the COVID-19 vaccine and posts by then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.https://t.co/TozPbl15TJ
— American Greatness (@theamgreatness) July 28, 2023
Flaherty characterized mainstream media outlets as “authoritative” while calling smaller outlets, especially conservative sources, “polarizing,” according to the transcript of the call reviewed by the DCNF.
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people,” Flaherty asked. “You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?”
Flaherty asked the question after a Facebook executive brought up the possibility that public figures’ speech may lead to more vaccine hesitancy. The Facebook executive, whose name was redacted from the documents, was referring to conservative commentator Tomi Lahren’s posting that she did not plan to receive a COVID-19 shot.
2 landmark lawsuits alleging that the Biden administration leaned on and bullied #BigTech companies to censor free speech were consolidated.
Both suits allege that the federal government bullied social media companies to suppress and block information. https://t.co/kR8FfDGsZc
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) July 27, 2023
“I’m uncovering new examples on comments – public figures on comments might be contributing more,” the executive said. “Tomi Lahren post on how she’s not getting the vaccine.”
The subcommittee obtained the documents as part of an investigation into the Biden administration’s social media censorship efforts.
According to these documents the White House also pressured Facebook to censor a video about vaccines in April 2021 produced by former Fox News host and Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson. The video did not breach the platform’s policy at the time of its censorship.
