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White House ‘flagging’ posts for Facebook to censor over COVID ‘misinformation’
NY Post ^ | July 15, 2021

Posted on 07/15/2021 12:53:40 PM PDT by deplorableindc

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday the Biden administration is identifying “problematic” posts for Facebook to censor because they contain “misinformation” about COVID-19.

Psaki disclosed the government role in policing social media during her daily press briefing after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on companies to purge more pandemic posts.

The demand for censorship — and Psaki’s admission of government involvement — follows a series of flip-flops from health officials who contradicted themselves throughout the pandemic on issues such as mask efficacy, as well as censorship of claims that later gained credibility, such as the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

“We are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff and also members of our COVID-19 team — given as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue, of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic,” Psaki said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; collusion; coronavirus; despotism; facebook; fascism; jenpsaki; mockingbird; postedseveraltimes
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1 posted on 07/15/2021 12:53:41 PM PDT by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

Sounds like facebook is a government actor. Say good bye to 230 protections. Sometimes I crack myself up.


2 posted on 07/15/2021 12:55:41 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: deplorableindc

Better title

“White House confirms Facebook is a branch of the Democrat party”


3 posted on 07/15/2021 12:56:22 PM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: JoSixChip

Exactly. Red states need to pull government departments from fakebook and ban facebook from state owned networks. This is war and only one side is fighting.


4 posted on 07/15/2021 12:57:44 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: deplorableindc

So, who, in the Federal Government, is searching social media for these posts, and how?
That is what intrigues and scares me.


5 posted on 07/15/2021 12:59:43 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: deplorableindc

Just take the jab,put on your face diaper and finish your Kool-Aid children.


6 posted on 07/15/2021 1:00:47 PM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: deplorableindc

So, why aren’t they flagging Fauci?


7 posted on 07/15/2021 1:01:16 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: deplorableindc

Open records, let’s get full disclosure.

Who is doing it (staff names), how much are we paying them, who made this policy, etc.


8 posted on 07/15/2021 1:02:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: deplorableindc

Facebook is the CIA.


9 posted on 07/15/2021 1:02:40 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: deplorableindc

Direct government censorship just like their friends in Cuba, China and Iran.


10 posted on 07/15/2021 1:03:20 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Little Ray

That has undoubtedly been outsourced to private actors as well. Soros funded networks of internet brown shirts who funnel their findings to a Joetato admin contact.

It’s all compartmentalized like a jihadi cell.


11 posted on 07/15/2021 1:05:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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12 posted on 07/15/2021 1:07:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: TigersEye

That is scary.
Who knows what they’ll flag and why?


13 posted on 07/15/2021 1:14:40 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: deplorableindc

Well this surely changes things.

They’re admitting this publicly? Wow.

Collusion.
RICO Laws.
Section 230.

President DeSantis will have an easy time putting Facebook in their place.


14 posted on 07/15/2021 1:19:34 PM PDT by David Chase (DavidHereToHelp)
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To: JoSixChip

Facebook practically had their own offices in the Obama white house.


15 posted on 07/15/2021 1:23:29 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: All

Did Nazi that coming


16 posted on 07/15/2021 1:32:25 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: Little Ray
I agree it is scary (everything about the Dems is) but it was just speculation. Obviously there is a team of people hired by someone feeding this info to the Xiden admin. Directly taxpayer funded working in the West Wing? Who knows.

Who knows what they’ll flag and why?

I think we more or less know what they're flagging. Anything that hurts them and/or helps the right.

What scares me is that right now they seem more concerned about getting everybody vaxxed than they do about gun control, climate change or any other part of their usual agenda. Why is that so important?

17 posted on 07/15/2021 1:35:59 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: JoSixChip

Yeah, used to be that if the government induced a private third party to act in a manner that the government could not, it was deemed a State Action. Let’s see if the courts still have the fortitude to take that step here.


18 posted on 07/15/2021 1:39:44 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: JoSixChip

This strengthens Trumps civil suit


19 posted on 07/15/2021 1:40:14 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: deplorableindc

So if there is an adverse reaction that affects a certain group like young men or pregnant woman, the information will simply be purged from Facebook. The problem will still exist, it just won’t be acknowledged.

If you suffer with the problem, you will suffer alone and the problem will not be addressed or corrected.

Sounds like science to me.


20 posted on 07/15/2021 1:41:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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