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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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To: TigersEye

The vax is the motherboard and the booster is God knows what that will control you when the 5G starts..

You will give it all up.

Probably we have waited too long to change thnkgs and people, all of us are weenies and sheep now.


21 posted on 07/15/2021 1:44:54 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: JoSixChip

You’re right. They just proved one of PDJT’s most important charges in his lawsuit: that big tech is actively cooperating with the Government to censor posts, meaning it’s acting as a quasi-governmental entity and is subject to the First Amendment. Not only that, the censorship is prior restraint.


22 posted on 07/15/2021 1:48:52 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Flick Lives
If you suffer with the problem, you will suffer alone and the problem will not be addressed or corrected.

And you will be socially ostracized for complaining about your problem that is unacceptable to talk about and in fact "doesn't exist."

23 posted on 07/15/2021 1:48:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: deplorableindc

“Ivermectin Works!”


24 posted on 07/15/2021 1:51:50 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
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To: dforest

When they turn the software on I expect it will resemble a zombie movie more than anything else. The sheep may suddenly become ravening wolves.


25 posted on 07/15/2021 1:53:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: deplorableindc
This is a twofer by the communists...
First:
Thought Police Alert!

Second:
Goebbels Propaganda Alert!

Good to see they are all on the same page...

26 posted on 07/15/2021 2:11:26 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: lodi90

Thank you. Precisely correct!


27 posted on 07/15/2021 2:15:45 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: TigersEye

You are goofy. Just wait. You won’t be laughing. It was Gates who said those shots were like the motherboard.


28 posted on 07/15/2021 2:37:02 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: dforest

When you lose your sense of humor you’re finished. :)


29 posted on 07/15/2021 2:41:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: dforest

Besides, I was only half joking.


30 posted on 07/15/2021 2:41:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: deplorableindc

F”ck Facebook. Yes, I’m still on to read family posts. I don’t think many read mine (except my dad), because I’m so deplorable.


31 posted on 07/15/2021 2:45:11 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: TigersEye; All

WHY important?

1. Get vast majority vaxxed

2. Implement weak vaccine passport where restaurants, employers, airlines discriminate. Most will accept this to protect society.

3. Tighten the screws where those NOT vaxxed don’t travel, work, shop etc

4. Add to criteria such as political ties, support for Uncle Joe,

5. We now have the CCP social scores. If you don’t meet your community organizers goals he sets for you, there will be ONE warning. Failure to comply will bring restrictions such as limits on your allowed driving miles, restrictions on your credit card spending as there will be NO cash etc

You will comply or you will be ordered to report to a re-education camp. Your community organizer will determine if you return home.

These steps will be done slowly so that the sheep won’t notice until it’s tool late


32 posted on 07/15/2021 2:45:32 PM PDT by politicianslie ( We will NEVER be a communist country-President Trump)
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To: politicianslie

That’s a pretty good theory.

However, I’m not sure those goals require vaxxing everybody with a campaign that’s so aggressive that it’s bound to anger more people than it makes submissive.


33 posted on 07/15/2021 2:49:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: 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.

THAT is government censorship of speech one hundred percent!


34 posted on 07/15/2021 3:00:14 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: deplorableindc

dear white house - show me the constitutional clause that allows the president to hire a team to monitor conversations regarding a health topic and then advise a private company to censor posts the white house censors dont like


35 posted on 07/15/2021 3:08:05 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: politicianslie
That is all too possible as the Marxists and Communists turn us into a combination of the old East Germany and the CCP. What are they going to do with the millions of unrepentant resisters who will not comply? I think we know the answer and one of Obama's mentors (Bill Ayers, I think) said there would be a need to eliminate some millions to further the revolution.
36 posted on 07/15/2021 3:17:13 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: TalBlack

Could you imagine if Trump’s WH did anything even remotely like this? It would be front pages news, 24/7 with cries that he is a dictator. Unbelievable.


37 posted on 07/15/2021 3:18:49 PM PDT by LilFarmer ( )
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To: Dutch Boy

Because Fauci is SCIENCE.


38 posted on 07/15/2021 3:49:04 PM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: 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.”

Here we have a clear indication of the government demanding that a private company carry out the illegal dictates of the criminal government to benefit that government. That’s called fascism.

And all you braindead, libertarian morons were too damn stupid to recognize it. Oh, it’s a private company that can do what it wants...blah, blah, blah. Dumbass libertarian jerks need to be knocked down on their fat asses.


39 posted on 07/15/2021 4:22:27 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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40 posted on 07/15/2021 4:44:04 PM PDT by bitt (I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. )
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