As a result of the state of Missouri’s lawsuit against the Biden administration, new Facebook emails are making the rounds from Reason to Jim Jordan.
Reason obtained emails proving that The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) played a direct role in policing speech on social media throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook moderators constantly contacted the CDC, routinely asking for censorship of COVID-related issues.
Confidential emails obtained by Reason show that Facebook moderators routinely asked government health officials to vet claims relating to the virus and mitigation efforts such as masks and vaccines.
Facebook allowed the federal government to vet the claims in posts. They continually thanked the government for their help and were eager participants.
Facebook Moderators Never Considered the Constitution:
- For a period of time, they wouldn’t allow anyone on their platform to say the vaccine was man-made.
- By July 2021, the CDC wasn’t just evaluating which claims it thought were false but whether they could “cause harm.”
- In November, Facebook told the FDA they would remove any claims that the vaccines weren’t good for children.
- Several agencies are known to have called for censorship. White House staffers castigated Meta for not deplatforming fast enough. Biden accused Facebook of “killing people” in July 2021.
- Some of the messages can be read on this link at Reason.
Jim Jordan Shared Facebook Documents He Obtained
One email sought guidance on whether to act aggressively against vaccine-discouraging content.
“We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the White House and the press to remove more COVID-19 vaccine discouraging content.
Additionally, the email states that they shared a list of the top 100 vaccine-related posts on Facebook in the US for the week of 4/5-4/11 with the White House.
JUST IN – Facebook and Instagram “censored posts because of unconstitutional pressure” from the Biden White House, House Judiciary Committee Chairman reveals after obtaining internal records. pic.twitter.com/5kZ1gEPcOj
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 27, 2023
Jordan then wrote that an April 2021 email revealed that a Facebook executive informed his team that a Biden administration senior adviser was “outraged” that Facebook did not remove a particular post.
According to Jordan, the post was a meme of actor Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV with the caption, “10 years from now, you will be watching TV and hear… Did you or a loved one take the COVID vaccine? You may be entitled to…”
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. pic.twitter.com/5muflAQjcx
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023
