Even as President Biden warns the nation of the "extremist threat to our democracy" from Republicans in this fall's elections, new evidence suggests a much wider campaign by his administration to sic Big Tech on critics than previously thought, going so far as removing a parody of Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci
The "defendants' position" left out the elephant in the room: the likelihood of even greater harm to Democratic prospects if sensitive communications including Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre are required to be divulged before the midterms.
- The plaintiffs want to force defendants to identify officials and agencies "whom they know of outside their own agencies" who have had similar conversations, and to compel "complete responses" from the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Federal officials often seem to use "alternative channels of communication" to flag specific posts and content for censorship
- CISA reached out to Twitter, Google, Meta and Microsoft days after DHS announced the Disinformation Governance Board
- Facebook and Microsoft thanked CISA for the offer to address the confusion over who's in charge
A Meta executive asked Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who had just issued his health advisory on misinformation, for "a way to deescalate and work together collaboratively."
- A week later, the executive told Murthy about Meta's new censorship policies and steps against the "disinfo dozen" led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Related to White House pressure on Twitter to ban Berenson, Rob Flaherty, Biden's director of digital strategy, informed White House and HHS colleagues that Twitter would brief them on "tangible effects" from its misinformation policy changes.
No comments:
Post a Comment