Biden White House Hounded Facebook To Censor Tucker Carlson, New Emails Show

President Joe Biden’s administration actively pressured Facebook to censor Fox News host Tucker Carlson for criticizing the Covid shots, according to Internal White House communications records Obtained by the attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana

In an email dated April 14, 2021, then-senior adviser to the president’s Covid response team, Andrew Slavitt, voiced dissatisfaction to a Facebook official that a Video of Carlson questioning the left’s universal demand that people get the Covid jab was “Number one” on the platform, to which said official responded that they’d look into the matter. Later that day, the Facebook representative informed White House that the matter was being investigated by the company. “Tucker Carlson video does not qualify for removal under [Facebook’s] policies,” The clip would be labelled by the company “a pointer to more authoritative COVID information” and limit its reach on this platform.

Facebook’s efforts did not meet the administration’s demands for greater censorship, however. In response to the representative, White House Director of Digital Strategy Robert Flaherty questioned how Carlson’s video didn’t violate Facebook’s existing policies and pressured the company to turn over information on the efficacy of its censorship practices.

“How was this not violative? The second half of the segment is raising conspiracy theories about the government hiding that all vaccines aren’t effective,” Flaherty Claim. “Moreover, you say reduced and demoted. What does that mean? There’s 40,000 shares on the video. Who is seeing it now? How many? How effective is that?”

“Not for nothing but last time we did this dance, it ended in an insurrection,” Flaherty added in an apparent reference to the platform’s handling of claims pertaining to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and subsequent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

But the Biden White House’s habit of using Big Tech to silence dissenting voices on Covid-related information didn’t just stop at Carlson. Separate emails from the Missouri and Louisiana Attorney Generals show a coordinated effort between the administration to lower the number of users. “virality of vaccine hesitancy content,” Even if the posts were factually correct,

“As you know, in addition to removing vaccine misinformation, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation,” Slavitt was informed by a Facebook representative that the site is available in English. Email, March 21, 2021. “This is often-true content, which we allow at the post level … but it can be framed as sensation, alarmist, or shocking. We’ll remove these Groups, Pages, and Accounts when they are disproportionately promoting this sensationalized content.”

PART TWO: Our office has even more hard evidence that President Biden’s Administration has been working with social media to suppress free speech. (1/10) 🧵

— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) January 10, 2023

Twitter, in addition to Facebook was also a key player in collusion efforts between Big Tech and the federal government to further suppress free speech online. An Email Flaherty warned Twitter that posts contrary to White were allowed in a tweet dated August 11, 2022.

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