More than 50 officials in President Joe Biden's administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31.
Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on allegedly false and misleading information on COVID.
'Censorship Enterprise'
More discovery is needed to uncover the full breadth of the pressure campaign, plaintiffs told the judge overseeing the case.
At least 32 federal officials, including top officials at the White House and the Food and Drug Administration, were in communication with Meta about content moderation, but many weren't identified in the response by the government.
DEFENDANTS' COMBINED OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES to PLAINTIFFS' FIRST SET OF EXPEDITED PRELIMINARY-INJUNCTION RELATED INTERROGATORIES
Defendants, by and through counsel, provide the following combined objections and responses to Plaintiffs' First Set of Expedited Preliminary- Injunction Related Interrogatories.
In presenting their objections, Defendants do not waive any further objection in pretrial motions practice or at trial to the admissibility of evidence on the grounds of relevance, materiality, privilege, competency, or any other appropriate ground. The objections have been formulated in contemplation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1), which generally permits discovery of matters not privileged that may be relevant to the claims or defenses in a civil action.
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