Bobby Burack, Outkick: Court Orders Biden Admin to Show Records Over Alleged Censorship Coordination with Big Tech
A court ordered the Biden administration to turn over records in a lawsuit that alleges censorship coordination with social media companies.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the following on Tuesday:
“In our lawsuit against the Biden Admin for colluding with social media companies to censor speech, the Court just ordered DOJ to produce records from key WH & HHS officials like Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, the WH Press Secretary [Karine Jean-Pierre], and other.”
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Last week, state attorney generals obtained emails that show other officials of the Biden administration holding monthly calls with Facebook to discuss content to censor.
Specifically, a Biden official asked a Meta executive to take down a Dr. Fauci parody account on Instagram. Meta agreed as the account is no longer active.
And some instances aren’t all that secretive. In August 2021, then-press secretary Jen Psaki announced that the White House identified “problematic” posts for Facebook to censor, which included posts skeptical of mRNA vaccines.
Facebook said it removed over 20 million pieces of COVID “misinformation” about six weeks later.
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