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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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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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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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 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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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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And so the gatekeepers of the modern town square relented—they censored Americans’ true speech and even jokes—all to appease the censors in the Biden White House.
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While the Biden @WhiteHouse is trying to obstruct our investigation and hide its role in censoring Americans, the investigation by the @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization continues to make progress.
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Yesterday, we issued deposition subpoenas to two senior Biden White House officials, Rob Flaherty and Andy Slavitt, who were central to communicating the Biden White House’s censorship demands. nypost.com/2023/11/30/news/j…
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