White House censorship

Mark Zuckerberg

Covid censorship was wrong and I wish I’d fought it

Facebook founder claims White House ‘repeatedly pressured’ his social media giant to censor posts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/27/covid-censorship-was-wrong-i-wish-id-fought-it-zuckerberg/

Headline from BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxlpjlgdzjo

Zuckerberg regrets bowing to Biden 'pressure' over Covid

Headline from Politico

Zuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399

Headline from Washington Post

Zuckerberg expresses regrets over covid misinformation crackdown

Link to the letter
https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1828201780544504064

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic,

and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.

During the pandemic

Facebook added misinformation alerts

It also deleted posts criticising the Covid vaccine, or Lab leak thinking

House Judiciary Committee

Mr Zuckerberg’s admissions a “big win for free speech”.

How Zuckerberg censored Covid on Facebook

Social media giant regularly bowed to White House pressure to remove anti-vaccine posts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/27/how-zuckerberg-censored-covid-on-facebook/

In Britain and America, government departments,

had privately put pressure on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/09/white-house-pressured-facebook-censor-sceptical-covid-vaccine/

to limit the spread of anti-vaccine posts or messages questioning Covid’s origins.

July 2021, Mr. Biden

“They’re killing people,”

“The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people.”

Sir Nick Clegg

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/08/zuckerberg-ignored-nick-clegg-online-safety-concerns-meta/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/27/how-zuckerberg-censored-covid-on-facebook/

“The behaviour of the [White House] over the last 24 hours has been highly cynical and dishonest.”

Sir Nick refused to take down a meme featuring Leonardo DiCaprio joking that in 10 years those who had taken the vaccine could be entitled to compensation.

August 2020

Facebook removes Donald Trump post in which he claims that children are “almost immune” to illness from Covid-19

February 2021

Robert F Kennedy Jr's Instagram account is removed for “sharing debunked claims” about Covid

April 2021

Under pressure from White House, Facebook demotes video in which Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson questioned the effectiveness of Covid vaccines despite the post not breaking rules

Matt Hancock

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/lockdown-files/

sent Sir Nick a WhatsApp:

“Your team have been working really well with the department and the advertising ban is great – but we need to have a timeframe for removal of anti-vax material and how to demonetise.”

UK

The Counter-Disinformation Unit

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/07/secretive-government-agency-brought-monitor-riots/

A secretive government agency used to “spy on” anti-lockdown campaigners during the Covid pandemic

The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU)

Set up in March 2020 to combat “false coronavirus information online”

now named,

National Security Online Information Team (NSOIT)

Big Brother Watch

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

Described the Counter Disinformation Unit

“one of the most opaque units in Government outside the security services” and accused it of “spying on” free speech.

On PDF

https://files.libcom.org/files/1984.pdf

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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