EXPOSED: Facebook, YouTube, Amazon Files
A new 800 page report exposes the damnable threats and coercion issued by the Biden White House censorship regime to Big Tech in order to censor Americans.
The report features internal emails and texts from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon, and YouTube employees, as well as their compliance with the White House.
The report’s name is quite telling as to what the contents are within it: “The censorship-industrial complex: how top Biden White House officials coerced big tech to censor Americans, true information, and critics of the Biden Administration.”
The report compiled a “monthslong campaign by the Biden White House to coerce large companies, namely Meta (parent company of Facebook), Alphabet (parent company of YouTube), and Amazon, to censor books, videos, posts, and other content online.”
A mere three days into the Biden Administration, “the White House emailed Twitter (now X) personnel to demand that a tweet by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. be “removed ASAP”” but the White House didn’t stop there, they also asked Twitter to “keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same genre.”
This alone is grounds to say the federal government has been weaponized against the American people!
SCOTUS CASE
At present, Murthy v. Missouri is before the U.S. Supreme Court. These revelations prove just how serious this case is as it addresses the role government officials can play in communicating with social media companies in the development and implementation of content moderation policies.
The Knight Institute filed an amicus brief in the case alleging that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies into removing apparent misinformation relating to public health and the U.S. elections in 2020.
This case, alongside the Committee report, are significant players for America’s freedoms in the upcoming election and well into the future.
REPORT FINDINGS
Most significant to this report are the ten of thousands of documents the Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government received after issuing dozens of subpoenas to government agencies, third parties and Big Tech.
The examples of censorship given within the report reference direct emails between Big Tech heads and their employees.
The Biden White House didn’t just target information that was verifiably true, they also wanted satire taken down that was problematic to the Administration even though the content didn’t violate any of the platforms’ policies.
According to former State Department Cyber expert and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, Mike Benz says that this statement by Clegg translates into “meaning we [Facebook] needs the US State Department to fight for us in the EU Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act.”
Going over some of these subpoena'd emails from @JudiciaryGOP & @Jim_Jordan's investigation in more detail. How Facebook bled out its own user base just to not anger the Biden government: https://t.co/76MgdFk5pL pic.twitter.com/CqVKM2bB8X
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 3, 2024
“Staying on the government’s good side,” is why Facebook is willing to lose users and money as a result of their compliance with the government’s censorship requests.
Here are just a few mind boggling examples from the report of times when Facebook, YouTube and Amazon explicitly said they only passed censorship policies because they were threatened by the Biden government (please note there is an emphasis on Facebook):
FACEBOOK:
Much of the censorship took place thanks to “the Biden people,” in addition to this, policy changes were being made “Because we [Facebook] were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more. . . . We shouldn’t have done it.”
Nick Clegg, head of censorship policies at Facebook and former head of the UK Labour Party, wrote in a communica: “given the bigger fish we have to fry with the Biden Administration, we should think creatively about how we can be responsive to their concerns.”
Following the President’s infamous comments on July 16th, Facebook executives immediately expressed frustration over these statements and what was described as the White House “exerting policy pressure.” Nick Clegg noted that they needed to “reset the working relationship.”
A series of communications on July 21st laid out precisely what the White House was asking to be removed, including “totally non-violating chatter about vaccines.” This seemingly undercuts the defense that only content in violation of its policies was at issue.
In the midst of this back and forth, Senator Klobuchar introduced the Health Misinformation Act of 2021 on July 22nd. This bill would have removed the Section 230 protections for social media companies that allowed "health misinformation" to proliferate on their platforms. pic.twitter.com/5dZ4LXHLj7
— TechJudge (@techjudge) May 3, 2024
AMAZON:
YouTube:
The Weaponization Committee also obtained internal documents and communique from YouTube which exposed a lot about the pressures the Biden White House put on the social media giant.
THE YOUTUBE FILES PART 3.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 1, 2024
Before finalizing a new content moderation policy proposal, YouTube asked the Biden White House to review and for their “feedback.”
:thread: Thread:
In what is being dubbed the “YouTube Files,” revelations surfaced on how the company was concerned that things could “spiral out of control” and wanted to stay on good terms with the White House because they were seeking “to work closely with [the Biden] administration on multiple policy fronts.”
The YouTube Files: pic.twitter.com/8hYi4tI0HE
— Weaponization Committee (@Weaponization) May 1, 2024
Seeing as this is a 800 page report, our team has yet to finish reading through the entirety of the report, read the first 15 pages, however, and Big Tech along with the Biden White House, surely prove that the federal government has indeed been weaponized against American citizens.
Read the full report by the Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
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