Yes. Active collaboration every step of the way.
Material produced during the discovery phase of a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of censorship is confirming what was already obvious: Big Tech’s ongoing censorship of social-media opinion about the pandemic has been undertaken largely at the behest of government.
A few of the emails confirming this:
- April 16, 2021. Twitter emails White House officials about briefing them on “vaccine misinformation.”
- July 16, 2021. Facebook emails the surgeon general that “our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.”
- July 23, 2021. The Facebook official tells HHS how Facebook will be “increasing the strength of our demotions for COVID and vaccine-related content that third party fact-checkers rate as ‘partly false’ or ‘missing context.’ ”
There’s mucho mas where that came from.
The public does not yet possess the requested documents from the Department of Justice of communications between DOJ officials and social-media officials. Getting those has been like pulling teeth. Why? Chances are 99.999 percent that they’ll only further confirm our thesis that over the last few years (at least) the federal government has been routinely violating the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment.
To do so, it delegates the job of gagging people to private firms in order to pretend that the coercive power of government is not itself being used to gag people.
But marching orders are marching orders.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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