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Biden White House urged Meta to crack down on 'vaccine-skeptical' content on WhatsApp private chat platform
Fox News ^ | 3/24/23 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 03/26/2023 2:24:11 AM PDT by Libloather

Newly-released communications between the Biden administration and Meta show an effort to crack down on so-called "vaccine-skeptical" content shared on the private communications platform WhatsApp.

Independent journalist David Zweig reported on Friday that the White House went beyond Twitter to curb COVID-related posts. Emails obtained through discovery from the ongoing Missouri v Biden legal battle show email exchanges from the White House to the tech giant began just days after President Biden took office.

Zweig stressed that unlike Facebook and Instagram, both of which are owned by Meta, WhatsApp is an encrypted direct messaging platform, Citing Meta, "90% of WhatsApp messages are from one person to another. And groups typically have fewer than 10 people."

In an email from March 2021, Rob Flaherty, the White House director of digital strategy, pressed Meta executives how they were "measuring reduction of harm" on WhatsApp, insisting they must have a "good mousetrap" to observe what encrypted content was being shared on the platform.

Flaherty also offered then-White House COVID senior adviser Andrew Slavitt, telling Meta he'd be "willing to get on the phone" a "couple of times per week if [it's] necessary."

"Because of WhatsApp’s structure, targeted suppression or censorship of certain information did not appear possible. Instead, much of the aim of the content moderation on WhatsApp, therefore, was to ‘push’ information to users," Zweig wrote. "The service partnered with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and more than 100 governments and health ministries to send Covid-19 updates and vaccine-related messages to users. The company created initiatives such as a WhatsApp chatbot in Spanish to aid in making local vaccination appointments."

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I would rather be called 'pro-Ivermectin pureblood'. Can't wait for Dr. Jill's recipes with ze bugs...
1 posted on 03/26/2023 2:24:11 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

More interesting, to me, at least, is that no one at Meta told them to pound sand.


2 posted on 03/26/2023 2:46:32 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Adder
The employees of Meta are fully brainwashed into Leftist ideology, so there's no reason they would resist. Meta and many corporations like it are natural partners in crime with the government.

The big question is, did this massive brainwashing of the American people result from a giant conspiracy, or is it organic...or both? It is hard to believe it is the result of a conspiracy if only because human beings are generally too incompetent to pull off anything like it.

As some have suggested, this brainwashing phenomenon appears to have required a spiritual element (i.e., demonic, that is).

3 posted on 03/26/2023 3:28:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

[As some have suggested, this brainwashing phenomenon appears to have required a spiritual element (i.e., demonic, that is).]

Well, they want the population to “accept” that a man in a woman’s dress is a “woman” - that is pure madness / reprobate - so.........appears so........The Devil sows confusion.


4 posted on 03/26/2023 3:49:27 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Adder

For all we know, that’s why social media companies were created in the first place.


5 posted on 03/26/2023 3:49:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Libloather
WhatsApp is an encrypted direct messaging platform, Citing Meta, "90% of WhatsApp messages are from one person to another. And groups typically have fewer than 10 people."

I wonder if this means the encryption of what’s app, is not as encrypted as we hoped it would be?

6 posted on 03/26/2023 3:50:40 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Adder
More interesting, to me, at least, is that no one at Meta told them to pound sand.

Not surprising since Facebook is a CIA controlled and DARPA owned data gathering and indoctrination tool.

And Congress is talkin' smack on Tik Tok. That kabuki is American intelligence vs. Chinese intelligence. Derp on derp. One always knew the heathen Chinee would separate themselves from the International Derp State at some point. Is this that point?

The dumb celestials may have jumped the gun, thinking America was under total control. And the Derp o.g.'s (Europeon and American wing) may think they got this and no longer need the heathens to take down America.

We shall see what we shall see. Trump is still in the game and so is Vlad.


7 posted on 03/26/2023 4:01:03 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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--- "...partnered with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and more than 100 governments and health ministries...."

This statement alone details how enormous this scam has been, Redefine "pandemic," redefine "vaccine," create classifications of people as "deniers" and "conspiracy theorists" and "vaccine-skeptical."

And yet all the panic, lock downs, mandates and gasligthing has been dedicated to a worldwide "experiment" still in its phase three trials, one observes, to "uptake" -- another in the jargon -- a set of products which have done significant damage and death far beyond the normal and previous measures which would have triggered a recall of a drug or medical device.

Behind this has been billions for the few and loss for many. One example still online: https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=53f2b59017e5

And yet the mortality rate over more than three years of this "event" is less than one tenth of one percent.

The "partners" as listed above, and led by the US' CDC, the UK's Imperial College and WHO and, lest we forget, Gates who has been a significant actor in this, have essentially attacked citizens with impunity. So far.

8 posted on 03/26/2023 4:02:25 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: RoosterRedux

Demonic influence.

Their churches are the colleges a d universities.


9 posted on 03/26/2023 4:07:34 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
[This statement alone details how enormous this scam has been,]

Global.........basically, THE ENTIRE WORLD (for all intents and purposes)

THE FOLLOWING IS SOMETHING SAVED FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS

Covid-19(84) ---> Covid-19(84) is not the Mark of the Beast.

(I'm just saying that for the thread)

BUT:

The parallels are downright eerie.

A clear warning of things to come.

Covid-19 came as a snare. Now it's not THE snare.

But still, it came as a snare. UPON THE ENTIRE WORLD.

A snare that came upon the entire world and institutionalized Global tyranny almost overnight.

Determining if you can travel, BUY and in some cases SELL.

Or if you can even work a job.

Tyranny upon tyranny.

The parallels are just too eerie and too spot-on.

This is a very clear foreshadowing of Revelation chapter 13 and the sheep are blind to it.
10 posted on 03/26/2023 4:16:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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11 posted on 03/26/2023 4:24:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Libloather

Feels like Biden is running a fascist state apparatus.


12 posted on 03/26/2023 4:26:38 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: Fzob
Feels like Biden is running a fascist state apparatus.

With help from the lying thugs and goons in 'intelligence'... 51 of 'em willing to sign a letter backing 'any lie that will power up 'the big guy'...

13 posted on 03/26/2023 4:30:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Morning Joe's sycophants say "My Democracy" it sounds like Gollum saying "my precious")
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To: Libloather

How ironic - have they ever read/listened to the tons of bad side-effects for all the “approved” crap?

“It can harm/cripple/maim/kill you 100 different ways - but your skin rashes might get better - ask your doctor if this crap is right for you...”


14 posted on 03/26/2023 5:32:44 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: bagster

This is interesting.

Once I remove Official Bagster slang I think we are in agreement.

The reason why TiKTok is the target of the week is because the FBI doesn’t have access on the inside like they do Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Seriously……..who da F’ cares if the Chicoms know LisaBounce dances and buys crap at Amazon?
Or Transsexuals are showing off their latest outfits.

A spy balloon gathering Intel throughout the entire country was no reason for alarm.

Hope you’ve been well Bagster. Been worried.
I you need a Dear Diary filled with useless medical advice, I’m here for ya bro.


15 posted on 03/26/2023 5:42:58 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: trebb

That’s not exactly true. I worked in Big Pharma for years until my conscience got to me but just remember that correlation doesn’t equal causation. As an example, it only take is 5.1% of people in a 1-4 year Phase III clinical trial for Medicine X to report a headache and it has to be listed as a side effect on the package insert, which is why every single drug lists headaches as a side effect. Same with vomiting/diarrhea/nausea etc. etc. There is no way of knowing unless there is a complete outlier in percentages if it’s the medicine causing those symptoms and if there is an outlier, the product doesn’t gain approval.

The Clot Shots never even started Phase 3 trials and is one of the biggest war crimes in world history.


16 posted on 03/26/2023 5:54:08 AM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Are there even any double-blind controlled Phase 3 trials at this point? I don’t know of any. Governments and Pharma EUA’d these poisons and started mandating them so dolls could keep their jobs, and the absurd part to me is I warned my family of all this after working for a Big 5 Pharma giant for years and they believed Fauci, even with his obvious patterns of corruption. A healthy 53 year-old cousin has had blood clots that have hospitalized in the last six months but is so brainwashed he refuses to blame it on Pfizer and will be right in line for the next booster. Needless to say he’s a Democrat living in Minnesota and is a really bright guy who is a tech exec.


17 posted on 03/26/2023 6:00:09 AM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: Libloather
Yeah, we now know exactly who our enemy is, all we need do is "Girt our loins" and take the field..

As the man said, "LET'S ROLL.!!!

18 posted on 03/26/2023 6:04:25 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Mark17

They only claim they encrypt person-to-person.

They don’t claim to not know who those persons are.


19 posted on 03/26/2023 6:26:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MTBobcat

Are side effects listed in the order of occurrences? Kind of like ingredients on a cereal box. That would be really handy to know if so.


20 posted on 03/26/2023 7:15:27 AM PDT by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" - Mussolini)
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