GOP Rep Jim Jordan has Joe Biden by the shorthairs and he is not letting up. He said: “THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 2. Newly subpoenaed documents reveal Facebook bowed to the Biden White House’s pressure to remove posts.
“In summer of 2021, the White House was mounting a nationwide push for Americans to get vaccinated for Covid-19. Part of that push included a public and SECRET campaign to get Facebook to more aggressively police vaccine-related content, including TRUE information.
“This wasn’t the Biden Admin’s first pressure campaign. In July 2021, FB’s head of Global Affairs asked why FB had been censoring the COVID lab leak theory.
“The answer was clear: “Because we were under pressure from the administration . . . We shouldn’t have done it.”
“Biden Administration officials claimed that many Americans were hesitant to get vaccines because of content—including true information—that they saw on Facebook.
“They’re killing people,” President Biden said in July.
“Facebook employees initially bristled at President Biden’s accusation.
“BUT the tongue-lashing directly caused Facebook to re-evaluate its policies about COVID-19 content—discussions that involved high-level company officials including Clegg and then-Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
“What did the White House want removed?
“Humorous posts about the vaccine.
“Seriously, jokes were too much!
“The Biden administration also wanted Facebook to remove TRUE information as well.
“As Clegg prepared to meet Biden’s Surgeon General, he emailed colleagues: “Sheryl is keen that we continue to explore some moves that we can make to show that we are trying to be responsive to the WH.”
“Facebook even considered “blackholing” certain domains.
Clegg continued: “My sense is that our current course—in effect explaining ourselves more fully, but not shifting on where we draw the lines…is a recipe for protracted and increasing acrimony with the [White House].”
“Facebook’s leadership relented in August and agreed to change the company’s content moderation policies because of the Biden Admin’s continued pressure.
“These subpoenaed documents continue to reveal the Biden administration’s efforts to censor speech.”
Look, what Biden did almost destroyed two great American companies, Facebook and Twitter.
If you don’t care about free speech, care about the economy because this is how it gets destroyed.
And we turn into a banana republic.
What did the White House want removed?
Humorous posts about the vaccine.
Seriously, jokes were too much! pic.twitter.com/HB2BBz1S59
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 28, 2023
The Biden administration also wanted Facebook to remove TRUE information as well. pic.twitter.com/5SWcb7ZrRS
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 28, 2023
