Thread by @AGAndrewBailey

PART TWO: Our office has even more hard evidence that President Biden’s Administration has been working with social media to suppress free speech. (1/10) 🧵

In regard to “anti-vax” posts, White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty tells Facebook that “slowing it down seems reasonable” (2/10)

Flaherty vehemently disagrees with Facebook’s decision not to take down a Tucker Carlson video on COVID-19 vaccines, stating “not for nothing but last time we did this dance, it ended in an insurrection” (3/10)

Flaherty tells Twitter that “if your product is appending misinformation to our tweets that seems like a pretty fundamental issue” (4/10)

Facebook assures Flaherty that “in addition to removing vaccine misinformation, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation,” including “often-true content” (5/10)

Facebook assures Flaherty that they “remove claims public health authorities tell us have been debunked or are unsupported by evidence” (6/10)

Flaherty accuses Twitter of “Total Calvinball” and “bending over backwards” to tolerate disfavored speech after Twitter refuses to comply with White House demands to censor a video (7/10)

Flaherty demands that Facebook to step up its operations of “removing bad information” on vaccines (8/10)

“I want to protect Missourians and the freedoms they enjoy, which is why as Attorney General, I will always defend the Constitution. This case is about the Biden Administration’s blatant disregard for the First Amendment and its collusion with social media companies …” (9/10)

“… suppress speech it disagrees with. I will always fight back against unelected bureaucrats who seek to indoctrinate the people of this state by violating our constitutional right to free and open debate.”  -@AGAndrewBailey (10/10)

Read more about our lawsuit & find the full emails here: ago.mo.gov/home/news/2023…