The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to remove some posts about COVID:
The emails show Facebook executives discussing how they managed users’ posts about the origins of a pandemic that the administration was seeking to control. “Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made,” asked Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs, in a July 2021 email to colleagues.“We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more,” responded a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, speaking of the Biden administration. “We shouldn’t have done it.”
The pressure and removal happened three months after Facebook stopped banning posts that promoted humans made and manufactured COVID.
The White House didn’t deny the discussions took place. But they only told them to promote “the adoption of vaccines and other public-health goods.” Of course, they didn’t tell them to censor speech because that would totes never happen:
“We have consistently made it clear that we believe social-media companies have a critical responsibility to take account of the effects of their platforms that they have on the American people, while making independent decisions about the content of their platforms,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a Thursday press briefing. Asked to comment for this article later Thursday, a White House spokesperson pointed to those comments.
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