Rep Jim Jordan has released never before seen emails demonstrating the pressure the Biden administration used to censor Americans and rob them of their constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech. The House Judiciary Committee, led by chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) shed even more light on how the White House and Biden-appointed officials put pressure on Facebook to censor stories that made Biden look bad. If Trump had done this, the Democrats would have hanged him, but since it was a Democrat, it is just fine by them.
Facebook has been hiding its communications from the Republicans for obvious reasons, but once a vote to charge Mark Zuckerberg with contempt of Congress was scheduled for a vote, they could not move any faster to supply the requested material. The release provided even more evidence that the Biden administration was for suppressing the right to free speech. This alone should be an impeachable offense.
Rep. Jordan posted the material in a long thread earlier today:
In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House” to remove posts.
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.
When Clegg “countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US,” Slavitt disregarded the warning and the First Amendment.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELWhat happened next? Facebook panicked. In another April 2021 email, Brian Rice, Facebook’s VP of public policy, raised the concern that Slavitt’s challenge felt “very much like a crossroads for us with the [Biden] White House in these early days.”
But Facebook wanted to repair its relationship with the White House to avoid adverse action: “Given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup and take stock of where we are in our relations with the [White House], and our internal methods too.”
But it wasn't just the White House.
Facebook also changed its policies in direct response to pressure from Biden's Surgeon General, censoring members of the “disinformation dozen.” pic.twitter.com/FvGuoqUlns
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023
Based on Facebook’s newfound commitment to fully cooperate with the Committee’s investigation, the Committee has decided to hold contempt in abeyance. For now.
To be clear, contempt is still on the table and WILL be used if Facebook fails to cooperate in FULL.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023
Rep. Jordan also revealed that the White House demanded to know why Facebook had not censored a clip from Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News. In response, Facebook was “ready to tell the White House that it had demoted a video posted by Tucker Carlson by 50% in response to the White House’s demands, even though the post didn’t violate any policies.”
Jordan also revealed that the U.S. Surgeon General also intervened to ask why Facebook had not censored the so-called “disinformation dozen” — a group of accounts questioning official COVID-19 policy.
The Judiciary Committee chairman also noted how difficult it was to obtain the information from Facebook.
“Only after the Committee announced its intention to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt did Facebook produce ANY internal documents to the Committee, including these documents, which PROVE that government pressure was directly responsible for censorship on Facebook,” said Jordan.
