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Meanwhile, the Google/YouTube Gov’t Affairs team cautioned that they were “seek[ing] to work closely with [the Biden] administration on multiple policy fronts.”
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But why did Facebook and Google/YouTube relent to the White House’s pressure?
Because the companies had other policy priorities that they feared the White House could use as leverage against them.
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In response to the White House’s demands, Clegg asked his colleagues at Facebook to check whether the content is available on YouTube because the White House’s “assumption is that [YouTube] would never accept something like this.”
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But the Biden White House was unmoved, and the response to Facebook was clear: you need to be like Google and YouTube and censor more.
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The email reveals that Nick Clegg—former UK Deputy Prime Minister—tried to reason with the Biden White House that, under America’s First Amendment, “removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US.”
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That’s right. The Biden Admin praised Google for censoring Americans while criticizing Facebook.
In an internal Facebook email obtained by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization, Clegg described his call with the Biden White House regarding censorship.
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In that same April 2021 “hour long call,” Biden White House Senior Advisor Andy Slavitt warned Nick Clegg, Facebook’s President for Global Affairs, that “YT has made significant advances to remove content leading to vaccine hesitancy whilst [Facebook has] lagged behind.”
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And once YouTube (Google) relented to censoring more content, the Biden White House used that as leverage to further increase the pressure on Facebook to do the same.
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.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization obtained internal Google & Facebook docs revealing which Big Tech companies buckled first under pressure from the Biden White House to censor Americans’ posts, including true statements, jokes, memes, and opinions.
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THE YOUTUBE FILES PART 2.
To appease the Biden White House, Big Tech gave into the federal government’s relentless pressure campaign to censor Americans’ speech, including true information.
YouTube capitulated first; Facebook caved next.
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Coming up on Fox News with @mtaibbi and @IngrahamAngle at 7:05 p.m. ET.
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“White House worked with YouTube to censor COVID-19 & vaccine 'misinformation': House Judiciary Committee”
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Today we subpoenaed Andrew Slavitt and Robert Flaherty for their role in the censorship of Americans.
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Tune in today for the @Weaponization hearing marking the one-year anniversary since the first #TwitterFiles report.
Stay tuned...
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