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Offline Kamaji

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‘Facebook Files’ 2.0 Reveal White House Pressured Facebook To Censor ‘True’ Content

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE
JULY 31, 2023

Published by Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan Friday, part two of the “Facebook Files” details more White House collusion with Silicon Valley censors over coronavirus content — including requests to censor posts about Covid-19 vaccine side effects even if the posted information was true.

Files show the Biden administration pressured Facebook to take down posts critical of vaccines that the White House promoted.

“Part of that push included a public and SECRET campaign to get Facebook to more aggressively police vaccine-related content, including TRUE information,” Jordan wrote on Twitter.


https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1684957660515328001

In July 2021, President Joe Biden claimed that by not censoring more vaccine-hesitant posts, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms were “killing people.”

The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the second batch of “Facebook Files” here.

Internal records show employees at Facebook initially “bristled” at the president’s accusations, calling the administration’s definition of misinformation “completely unclear.”

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/31/facebook-files-2-0-reveal-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-true-content/

Offline Smokin Joe

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After having posts that consisted only of links to journal articles in the National Institute of Health Library restricted (even though they contained no commentary at all), I'm not surprised that the Administration and Facebook colluded to suppress even peer-reviewed truths.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis