Freedom of Speech

Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts

Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing pandemic to man-made virus

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-bowed-to-white-house-pressure-removed-covid-posts-2df436b7

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/28/facebook-deleted-covid-virus-manmade-posts-pressure-biden/

Email from Nick Clegg

Asked why company was removing rather than labelling or demoting post about viral origins

Facebook vice-president in charge of content policy

“We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more,”

“We shouldn’t have done it.”

Jim Jordan, Republican house judiciary committee

“documents begin to reveal the pressure that Facebook and other social media companies were under to alter their content moderation policies,

and remove protected speech to appease the federal government, particularly the Biden White House”.

First Amendment

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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