BY STACEY LENNOX SEP 02, 2022 10:48 AM ET
Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana are on a mission to detail the scope and depth of how the Biden administration is using Big Tech companies like Facebook/Meta to curb the free-speech rights of Americans. On the heels of shocking comments by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the FBI’s role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, initial e-mails related to a lawsuit filed by Schmitt and Landry show even more evidence that the Biden administration is using Big Tech to do what it is not, allowed to do according to the Constitution.
“Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit back in May that seeks to expose how top Biden Administration officials allegedly colluded with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on a number of topics, including COVID-19. We won in court in July, and the Court required the Biden Administration to turn over communications between federal officials and social media companies,” Schmitt explained.
What the discovery process has produced so far is astounding but not surprising. Many will recall former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying that the White House was “flagging” posts that contained what it identified as Covid “misinformation” for Facebook. A new trove of e-mails shows that the relationship between the government and Big Tech was reciprocal and included regular meetings. According to a statement from Schmitt and Landry, examples include:
A senior Facebook official sent an email to the surgeon general stating, “I know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.” This email chain followed the surgeon general’s “misinformation health advisory” in July 2021.
The same senior official sent a later email to HHS and noted, “Thanks again for taking the time to meet earlier today.” Then, the official continued to discuss how Facebook is taking even more steps to censor freedom of speech.
Twitter scheduled a meeting to brief top White House officials on “vaccine misinformation.”
There are several instances where Facebook wouldn’t proceed with censoring speech on their platform until they had input or a “debunking” from the CDC. Twitter followed the same course in at least one email.
The CDC proposed a monthly pre-debunking meeting with Facebook to help them censor speech.
A White House official was even concerned about Fauci parody accounts and coordinated with Facebook to take them down.
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