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Lawmakers show evidence alleging White House pushed Facebook to censor posts

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Dave Bondy
Jul 27, 2023
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News coming out of Washington D.C is showing the Biden administration is accused of pressuring social media company META to censor posts and changed their content moderation policies because of alleged pressure from the Biden White House. This news comes from the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan.

Jordan says, 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.

Jordan says 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

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