Posted on 01/17/2025 6:10:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
Journalist Matt Taibbi spoke to Brian Kilmeade about Mark Zuckerberg coming out against government censorship of social media and revealing the pressure he faced from the Biden administration to censor content on Facebook and Instagram.
"On the whole, it is a net positive," Taibbi said. "Zuckerberg coming out and saying all this confirms a lot of what I reported and a lot of the information that came out from Jim Jordan's committee investigation into the Facebook Files. Even if it is not 100% sincere, it confirms some things and suggests that maybe these tech companies are afraid to continue doing this kind of thing."
"Zuckerberg already broke the ice on this in August when he issued a letter talking about how the White House had pressured Facebook to censor, and the FBI had nudged the company to believe the Hunter Biden laptop story was disinformation. His use of the word 'censor' in that letter in August kind of broke the ice on the mainstream coverage of this topic -- no one had really used that word before. So whatever the motivation is, I think it is a net plus for the effort to increase free speech on these platforms."
"The emails about the White House aide Andy Slavitt calling up Facebook and yelling at them, demanding they take things down ASAP, those were all public. They were part of the Murthy v. Missouri court case and Jim Jordan's extensive Judiciary Committee report that published a huge cache of those emails, which had all those exchanges -- including the White House side of that story," Taibbi added. "There's no doubt this happened, the question is what did Facebook do about it? They did push back a little, but they didn't push back nearly enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The democRATs act as if this is not a worthy story.
“Taibbi: WH-Directed Suppression Of Speech On Facebook Was Worse Than On Twitter”
The suppression was so good that not only could the ‘Free Speech hero of all time’, Zuckerberg, not only have his hands tied by it, he also had his mouth pinned closed, thus preventing him from even complaining about it.
Or that’s what Zuckerberg wants us to believe.
one of my personal faves, “the only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” L.Star
biden’s cohorts ordered social media to suppress dissident thought and to promote their propaganda. There should be huge outrage over this!
As children, we were told to think that the USA was a “free country” and that we had “freedom of speech.” Many people still believe that. So when it became obvious that the president and his followers had violated the #1 amendment to the Constitution, there should have been deafening cries to impeach and JAIL! There was not.
We have lost something that few other countries in the world ever had.
Where is the Class Acrion?
Rogan has a very interesting recent interview with Zuckerberg. He might not be sincere about his goals but he’s pretty open about the whole thing.
Enemies domestic. F all
Biden exclaims during his farewell read that some social media companies ‘won’t even fact check any longer”.
Clearly indicating that he is so demented he doesn’t even realize the outrageous hypocrisy.
facebook is a private company that can do what they want to censor free speech... that’s what the dems believe... especially if asked by their WH.
Zuck is covering up the real story.
Back around 2009, there was a SV operation setup under the phony name...”network neutrality” or similar nonsense.
This was designed by SV engineers working with politicians to monitor and control the Obama message and it ran in WA to SoCal and into AZ, GA, FL, TX and a few other key states.
I ran into it in CO and AZ and part was backed by Intel.
We were told to STOP asking questions about it!
FB was going to be the gate keeper and thus the key $$$ benefit of the program.
The plan was you couldn’t post anything to the internet without having your ID validated by FB and FB took the validation cash.
If they didn’t like what you were posting, you were ejected.
Trump’s election in 2016 caused the plan to be stalled and they figured they flip gears to 24-7 attacks on Trump.
Eventually they could get what they wanted.
2024 ended their dreams and now they have to keep the DOJ from discovering what they had going on.
GOOGLE, MS, Intel, Apple, FB all knew about it at the Executive level.
What about the portal Mark? Is it still open? I never hear a word from you about that portal.
In a separate email, Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg implicated former White House Senior Advisor Andy Slavitt as being “outraged” that Facebook did not comply with its censorship demand. Specifically, Clegg said, “[Slavitt] was outraged – not too strong of a word to describe his reaction — that we did not remove this post which was third most highly ranked post in the data we sent to him.” As if that evidence wasn’t shocking enough, what came next was nothing short of damning. “What did the Biden White House want removed?” asked Jordan in the Twitter thread. “A meme. That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts.” The subject meme made a joke about potential COVID-19 vaccine injuries. The White House censorship demands were so draconian and broad that it ignited Meta’s concerns that Biden was going after constitutionally-protected speech. According to Jordan, “When Clegg ‘countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US,’ Slavitt disregarded the warning and the First Amendment.” ... --- (from another thread)
from another thread in 2014 about him getting an “ethics waiver” :
...Slavitt, a former OptumInsight/QSSI group vice president, left the company last month to work as the principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Obamacare and HealthCare.gov. His post makes him the No. 2 at the agency under CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner.
The former Optum executive gave the maximum campaign contributions allowed to President Obama’s Victory Fund and Obama for America—now Organizing for Action—in 2012, federal campaign records show.
According to the ethics waiver, issued July 11 by the Department of Health and Human Services and posted publicly last week, Slavitt will be able to begin working on matters involving his former company, OptumInsight/QSSI.
Without a waiver, Slavitt would have had to wait at least one year before participating in work that involves his former employer....
Matt Gaetz : “WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS ARE SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET EARTH. OFTENTIMES, THEY GET THE DISPOSITIVE OPINION ON APPOINTMENTS TO DIFFERENT POSITIONS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THEY INFLUENCE STATEMENTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY. THEY INITIATED REGULATORY REFORM. THEY OFTEN HAVE A SIGNIFICANT VOICE ON WHICH ASSIMILATION THAT IS CONSIDERED AN APPROVED. MR. SOUR, I WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY OF THESE INTENSELY POWERFUL PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE WERE INVOLVED IN THIS EFFORT TO — EVEN INVESTIGATING REGARDING THE DESIRE TO SHAPE DISCUSSIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.”
Witness Answer: “AT LEAST 20 AND VERY LIKELY MORE.”
Matt Gaetz : “WAS THERE A RINGLEADER OF THIS GROUP? SOMEONE WHO HAD PERVASIVE AND REPEATED EFFORTS TO TRY TO COERCE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TO SHAPE THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE?”
Witness Answer: “DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT ROB FLAHERTY AND ALSO ANDY SLAVITT.”
Infamous Andy was the recipient of a book deal (payoff) :
Biden COVID czar: Americans should be ready to ‘sacrifice a little bit’ more in next pandemic
wnd.com ^ | 6/17/2021 | Samantha Chang
Posted on 6/19/2021, 11:01:19 AM by rktman
President Joe Biden’s former coronavirus czar scolded Americans for not sacrificing enough during the past year to stem the pandemic.
Andy Slavitt, who resigned as a senior adviser to the White House pandemic response team last week, suggested that Americans were selfish and have only themselves to blame for the tragedies of the past year.
He made the snide comments Monday on “CBS This Morning” while shilling his new book “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
From another thread:
... Andy Slavitt, the former Obama administration acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or “Ex-Obama health care head,” as he describes himself on Twitter, pushed the story to his 370,000 followers, with some added flourish: “A major hospital in the Midwest has reached its limit on ventilators minutes ago. They are handing out forms saying that only those ‘with the best chance of survival’ will get care. Others will be getting pain medication.
The story had gone viral. Then, shortly before midnight, Bagley deleted his tweet, telling followers he was “going to take this down until it can be independently verified.” Bagley added “the memo is circulating among doctors, but Henry Ford apparently can neither confirm nor deny it yet.”...
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