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   From: schiffless-pelosi@latimes.com   
      
   ‘The discovery provided so far demonstrates that this Censorship   
   Enterprise is extremely broad, including officials in the White   
   House.’   
      
   The federal government actively colluded with Big Tech over the past   
   year to censor conversations about covid that they thought contained   
   false or inaccurate information, according to newly released emails.   
      
   Obtained via a lawsuit filed against top-ranking Biden administration   
   officials by Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys General (AG) Eric   
   Schmitt and Jeff Landry for “colluding with social media companies to   
   censor free speech,” the communication records show members of federal   
   agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   
   (CDC), coordinating with social media platforms on how to handle   
   “misinformation” regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.   
      
      
   In an email dated July 16, 2021, addressed to U.S. Surgeon General   
   Vivek Murthy, a senior representative for Facebook discussed how the   
   company and Biden administration officials met “to better understand   
   the scope of what the White House expects from [Facebook] on   
   misinformation going forward.”   
      
   “In our previous conversations, I’ve appreciated the way you and your   
   team have approached our engagement, and we have worked hard to meet   
   the moment — we’ve dedicated enormous time and resources to fighting   
   this pandemic and consider ourselves to be partners in fighting the   
   same battle,” the Facebook official wrote.   
      
   The email to Murthy came a day after the Surgeon General’s issuance of   
   an Advisory warning against the “threat of health misinformation,” in   
   which Murthy called on “tech and social media companies” to “do more   
   to address the spread on their platforms.”   
      
   According to the communication logs released by Schmitt, the same   
   senior Facebook representative later sent an email to an official   
   within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in which   
   Facebook thanked the HHS rep for “taking the time to meet” and expand   
   upon the steps the company took with respect to removing   
   “misinformation” and “further address the ‘disinfo dozen.'”   
      
   “[W]e removed 17 additional Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts tied   
   to the disinfo dozen (so a total of 39 Profiles, Groups, and IG   
   accounts deleted thus far, resulting in every member of the disinfo   
   dozen having had at least one such entity removed),” the email reads.   
   “We are also continuing to make 4 other Pages and Profiles, which have   
   not yet met their removal thresholds, more difficult to find on our   
   platform. We also expanded the group of false claims that we remove to   
   keep up with recent trends of misinformation that we are seeing.”   
      
   A separate document addressed to Surgeon General Murthy also shows   
   additional steps Facebook took to censor Americans on the platform,   
   including “increasing the strength” of “demotions for COVID and   
   vaccine-related content that third-party fact checkers rate as ‘Partly   
   False’ or ‘Missing Context’ so that any such information would   
   “demoted at the same strength that [Facebook] demote[s] any content”   
   rated as “False.”   
      
   The cozy relationship between Facebook and federal health agencies   
   like the CDC didn’t stop there, with the two entities often holding   
   regular meetings to discuss the latter’s censorship efforts.   
      
   In an email chain dated July 28, 2021, a senior Facebook official   
   asked the CDC if “in addition to [their] weekly meetings,” the CDC   
   would be interested in “doing a monthly misinfo/debunking meeting,   
   with maybe claim topics communicated a few days prior so that [the   
   CDC] can bring in matching experts and chat casually for 30 minutes or   
   so.”   
      
   “Yes, we would love to do that,” a CDC official replied.   
      
   The Biden administration’s assault on free speech wasn’t exclusive to   
   covid-19, however. On July 20, 2021, Digital Director for the White   
   House Covid-19 Response Team Clarke Humphrey sent an email to Facebook   
   asking if the group could remove a parody Instagram account of Dr.   
   Anthony Fauci.   
      
   “Hi there — any way we can get this pulled down? It is not actually   
   one of ours,” Humphrey said, to which a Facebook official replied,   
   “Yep, on it!”   
      
   In addition to Facebook, Twitter also made efforts to collude with the   
   federal government regarding Covid. The emails also show Twitter   
   asking to set up regular meetings with government health officials to   
   “examine trends” regarding “problematic content,” such as fraudulent   
   “covid cures” and “vaccine cards.”   
      
   Other examples of coordination between the federal government and Big   
   Tech companies include the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security   
   Agency reaching out “to Twitter, Google, Meta, and Microsoft” this   
   past May “following the botched rollout of DHS’ Disinformation   
   Governance Board.” Furthermore, in February 2022, the Deputy Secretary   
   at the Biden Treasury Department had an inquiry sent to Facebook to   
   set connect and “discuss potential influence operations on social   
   media.”   
      
   “The discovery provided so far demonstrates that this Censorship   
   Enterprise is extremely broad, including officials in the White House,   
   HHS, DHS, CISA, the CDC, NIAID, and the Office of the Surgeon General;   
   and evidently other agencies as well, such as the Census Bureau, the   
   FDA, the FBI, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and the   
   U.S. Election Assistance Commission,” Schmitt and Landry said in a   
   joint statement. “And it rises to the highest levels of the U.S.   
   Government, including numerous White House officials.”   
      
   The release of the bombshell emails comes following confirmation by   
   Meta (Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the FBI interfered in the   
   2020 presidential election by pressuring his company to “censor   
   Russian misinformation — and thus the Hunter Biden laptop story.”   
      
   https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/01/bombshell-emails-show-the-b   
   den-administration-colluded-with-big-tech-to-censor-covid-misinformation/   
      
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