Biden’s Digital Media Director Pressured Social Media Companies to Censor So-Called COVID Misinfo

The discovery phase in a free speech lawsuit against GOP state attorneys generals, represented here by the  New Civil Liberties AllianceAccording to, the Biden administration pressed social media companies like Twitter and Facebook to censor online users who posted information that was not White House approved. “Covid misinformation.”

The Wall Street Journal has the following to report, “Newly released documents show that the White House has played a major role in censoring Americans on social media.”

On January 6, the White House revealed the details of its censorship activities. Missouri v Biden, Eric Schmitt, Missouri Attorney General, and Jay Bhattacharya (LA’s AG) brought the case. New Civil Liberties Alliance.

“Email exchanges between Rob Flaherty, the White House’s director of digital media, and social-media executives prove the companies put Covid censorship policies in place in response to relentless, coercive pressure from the White House—not voluntarily,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

“You are hiding the ball,” Flaherty wrote to an executive at Facebook on March 14, 2021 and included a Washington Post article on the topic. “spread of ideas that contribute to vaccine hesitancy.”

“I think there is a misunderstanding,” The executive replied.

“We are gravely concerned that your service is one of the top drivers of vaccine hesitancy—period… We want to know that you’re trying, we want to know how we can help, and we want to know that you’re not playing a shell game… This would all be a lot easier if you would just be straight with us,” Flaherty responded.

Another email exchange Flaherty told the executive to intervene again over online postings expressing concern on March 21-22, 2021. “skepticism” Over the Covid vaccination. Flaherty said that he was also “confused about how you’re measuring reduction of harm on” WhatsApp is a great way to communicate with others. “given its reach in immigrant communities and communities of color.”

Flaherty asked an executive what he thought about the question on April 9, 2021. “actions and changes” Facebook was taking so that the company was not “not making our country’s vaccine hesitancy problem worse.”

Flaherty acknowledged, however, that Facebook was an “algorithmic shift that promoted quality news and information about the election” But only “after an election that you helped increase skepticism in, and an insurrection which was plotted, in large part, by your platform.”

“I want some assurances, based in data, that you are not doing the same thing again here,” Flaherty added.

“Understood,” The exec responded.

Flaherty also asked why Facebook allows a follow-up email in April of that year. “top post about vaccines today” Tucker Carlson.

“I want to know what ‘Reduction’ actually looks like,” Flaherty added.

Flaherty sent then to the exec, on April 23, 2021, an internal White House memo. It stated, “Facebook plays a major role in the spread of COVID vaccine misinformation.”

The memo stated that Facebook was failing “to monitor events hosting anti-vaccine and COVID disinformation” And directed some users to “COVID-skeptics/anti-vaccine ‘trusted’ messengers.”

Flaherty also stated to a Google executive that in April there was “more work to be done” The company can reduce “Covid-19 misinformation.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that “The First Amendment bars government from engaging in viewpoint-based censorship.”

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