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CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

Jan 11, 2023, 5 tweets

Many think social media companies only censored "vaccine misinformation." But a recently-released email shows Facebook reassuring the White House that they were censoring "often-true content” that "does not contain actionable misinformation" but was "discouraging vaccines."

What's more, said the Facebook executive, "We'll remove these Groups, Pages, and Accounts when they are disproportionately promoting this sensationalized content. More on this front as we proceed to implement."

There is a pattern here of the Biden White House intimidating Twitter and Facebook execs into censoring "legitimate findings and questions about our Covid policies" @davidzweig

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