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THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE

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Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.
During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and privately—to crack down on alleged “misinformation."
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. Image
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. Image
What did the Biden White House want removed?

A meme.

That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts. Image
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. Image
What 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.” Image
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.” Image
This wasn’t the first time that the Biden White House was angry that Facebook didn’t censor more.

According to these documents, the Biden White House demanded to know why Facebook had not censored a video from @TuckerCarlson.

So, Facebook prepped its response.
To appease the Biden White House, talking points were drafted for Clegg.

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. Image
Public pressure mounted as well.

In July 2021, President Biden publicly denounced Facebook and other social media platforms, claiming they were “killing people” by not censoring alleged “misinformation.”

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On August 2, 2021, Facebook admitted it was going to change its policies because of pressure from the Biden White House.
August 2, 2021:

“[Facebook’s] Leadership asked Misinfo Policy . . . to brainstorm some additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration.” Image
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.”
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These documents, AND OTHERS that were just produced to the Committee, prove that the Biden Admin abused its powers to coerce Facebook into censoring Americans, preventing free and open discourse on issues of critical public importance.
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.
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.
To be continued…

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🚨 THE UK CENSORSHIP FILES, PART 2

UK GOVERNMENT TRIED TO CENSOR CRITICISM OF ITSELF AND DEBATE ABOUT IMMIGRATION DURING LARGE-SCALE RIOTS IN AUGUST 2024.

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First, we took on top EU censor @ThierryBreton when he tried to silence President Trump during the 2024 campaign.

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.@JudiciaryGOP has been investigating European censorship since the EU tried to silence President Trump last August.

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The FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was real & worked for MONTHS to prime Big Tech to censor the @nypost story.

Here’s how the FBI "prebunked" the biggest story of the election.

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In late 2019, the FBI obtained and secretly confirmed that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.

The laptop had damning material showing the Biden family’s corrupt influence-peddling scheme. Image
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Just a few months later, while in possession of Hunter’s laptop, the FBI started meeting with Big Tech to warn about potential Russian disinformation ahead of the election.

In total, the FBI and Big Tech met over 30 times in 2020 before the Biden family corruption story came out.Image
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THE AMAZON FILES PART 3 – AMAZON’S CENSORED BOOKS LIST

We knew that @Amazon censored books because of pressure from the Biden @WhiteHouse.

Now we know which books:

--Children’s Books
--Books for Parents
--Books critical of Big Pharma

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.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization obtained internal Amazon documents showing that the urgent “impetus” for Amazon censoring books in March 2021 was “criticism from the Biden administration.”

To censor the books, Amazon created a “new [Do Not Promote] class for anti-vax books.” Image
Internal emails reveal that Amazon initially added 43 books to its newly created “Do Not Promote” class of allegedly anti-vaccine books.

These pro-censorship changes were being made “due to criticism from the Biden people.”
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THE YOUTUBE FILES PART 3.

Before finalizing a new content moderation policy proposal, YouTube asked the Biden White House to review and for their “feedback.”

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.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization obtained internal Google docs revealing the Biden White House’s pressure campaign against YouTube.
As revealed in the YouTube Files, the company was concerned things could “spiral out of control” and wanted to stay on good terms with the White House because they were seeking “to work closely with [the Biden] administration on multiple policy fronts.”
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