Posted on 07/27/2023 1:08:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has disclosed “never-before-released” Facebook files that show indisputably that the Biden White House knowingly violated Americans’ First Amendment rights by asking the social media platform to censor constitutionally protected speech.
Jim Jordan’s remarks, as released in a Twitter thread, are shared verbatim below:
“Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.
During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and privately—to crack down on alleged “misinformation.”
In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House” to remove posts.
In another April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, informed his team at Facebook that Andy Slavitt, a Senior Advisor to President Biden, was “outraged . . . that [Facebook] did not remove” a particular post.
What did the Biden White House want removed?
A meme.
That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts.
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.
What happened next? Facebook panicked.
In another April 2021 email, Brian Rice, Facebook’s VP of public policy, raised the concern that Slavitt’s challenge felt “very much like a crossroads for us with the [Biden] White House in these early days.”
But Facebook wanted to repair its relationship with the White House to avoid adverse action:
“Given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup and take stock of where we are in our relations with the [White House], and our internal methods too.”
This wasn’t the first time that the Biden White House was angry that Facebook didn’t censor more.
According to these documents, the Biden White House demanded to know why Facebook had not censored a video from @TuckerCarlson.
So, Facebook prepped its response.
To appease the Biden White House, talking points were drafted for Clegg.
Facebook was ready to tell the White House that it had demoted a video posted by Tucker Carlson by 50% in response to the White House’s demands, even though the post didn’t violate any policies.
Public pressure mounted as well.
In July 2021, President Biden publicly denounced Facebook and other social media platforms, claiming they were “killing people” by not censoring alleged “misinformation.”
On August 2, 2021, Facebook admitted it was going to change its policies because of pressure from the Biden White House. August 2, 2021:
“[Facebook’s] Leadership asked Misinfo Policy . . . to brainstorm some additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration.”
But it wasn’t just the White House.
Facebook also changed its policies in direct response to pressure from Biden’s Surgeon General, censoring members of the “disinformation dozen.”
These documents, AND OTHERS that were just produced to the Committee, prove that the Biden Admin abused its powers to coerce Facebook into censoring Americans, preventing free and open discourse on issues of critical public importance.
Only after the Committee announced its intention to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt did Facebook produce ANY internal documents to the Committee, including these documents, which PROVE that government pressure was directly responsible for censorship on Facebook. Based on Facebook’s newfound commitment to fully cooperate with the Committee’s investigation, the Committee has decided to hold contempt in abeyance. For now.
To be clear, contempt is still on the table and WILL be used if Facebook fails to cooperate in FULL.
To be continued…”
We have known that. Social media has been in the service of the government. It is used to identify dissidents, so they can be canceled.
Those who participated on January 6 have been proved to be American heroes.
We should be naming streets schools and parks after them.
We should also storm the prison and release them.
Pretty creepy
Boyhowdy, that's gotta be the understatement of the day!
How else should they show their loyalty to the Party?
“constitutionally protected speech.”
Please forgive me if I am ignorant. What in the world is, “constitutionally protected speech.” Is there such a thing?
There either IS a 1st Amendment or there ISN’T. Which is it?
18USC242. Violations of Civil Rights Under False Color of Authority.
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The Biden criminal regime wants to censor anyone who calls them out on their criminality.
Biden crime family and criminal government are not calling for censorship because they want to protect you, and your oh-so-delicate feelings, from seeing, or hearing, anything that might offend or upset you.
THEY WANT TO SILENCE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO COVER UP THEIR CRIMES.
WTF UP!
That is SOP for democrats.
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There are unprotected categories... communications in furtherance of crime is not protected speech, it is ‘conspiracy.’ Also perjury and speech intended to cause harm (yelling fire in a theater) isn’t protected. What police call ‘fighting words’ is not protected also, though that is more questionable in this context because of it’s subjectivity... “hate speech” is in that category.
When memes are outlawed, only outlaws will have memes.
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Joe Biden is a criminal scumbag and a traitor to the U.S.
So, im not the only one who calls it the Biden Regime.
‘Regime’ is the correct term...................
In this case the are talking about ‘political speech’.
But as we all know, you cannot yell ‘FIRE!’ in a crowded theater and you cannot incite people to riot, loot, burn or kill...................................
This is the very tip of the iceberg.
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