@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
🚨BREAKING: Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL. Thread: https://t.co/60SsoCK2Yk
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YouTube also: -Admits the Biden Admin censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong” -Confirms that the Biden Admin wanted Americans censored for speech that did not violate YouTube’s policies -Details when YouTube began rolling back its censorship policies on political speech after @JudiciaryGOP began its investigation -States that public debate should NEVER come at the expense of relying on “authorities” -Promises to NEVER use third-party “fact-checkers” -Warns that Europe’s censorship laws target AMERICAN companies and threaten AMERICAN speech
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Over the past few years, we have uncovered massive scandals relating to Big Tech censorship. https://t.co/aUgWllkPUv
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
During the Biden-Harris years, under White House pressure, YouTube changed its policies to censor political debate on COVID and elections. TODAY, YouTube admits that the censorship pressure from Biden Admin was “unacceptable and wrong.” https://t.co/dGfJK0T0oD
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Now, to make amends to the American people, and because of our work, YouTube is rolling back its censorship policies on political speech, including topics such as COVID and elections. https://t.co/ni42Ze9dR4
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
What does that mean? Whether you were an established YouTube presence with a massive following like @dbongino or just were starting out to express political views there, YOU will have an opportunity to come back onto the platform if you were censored for engaging in political speech.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
This is another victory in the fight against censorship. In Aug 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the Committee a letter admitting: 1. Biden Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. https://t.co/m2KqiWbY1A
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Even as Meta admitted the Biden-Harris censorship was wrong, others in Big Tech were reluctant to go on the record. Now Google is acknowledging, for the first time, that it too faced censorship pressure from the Biden White House and that pressure was “unacceptable and wrong.”
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But that’s not all. YouTube is making changes to its platform to prevent future censorship. YouTube is committing to the American people that it will NEVER use outside so-called “fact-checkers” to censor speech. No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe. https://t.co/MFIk0NIAiV
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
YouTube also is trying out Community Notes. @elonmusk was ahead of the curve. Meta followed suit. And now YouTube. https://t.co/1IHDqOKREY
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And YouTube confirms that Europe is targeting American speech and innovation. Here it admits that European social-media laws place a “disproportionate regulatory burden on American companies.” https://t.co/bbuVnVseqJ
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
YouTube warns that Europe could force companies to remove LAWFUL social-media content and could risk freedom of expression “within and OUTSIDE of the EU.” That’s right. Europe wants to censor your online speech even if you aren’t in Europe! https://t.co/aRBvErnQ61
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Google and YouTube credit @JudiciaryGOP for bringing transparency of and accountability for Big Tech’s censorship. We will continue to hold Big Tech accountable. https://t.co/lJiEalQZeE
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Read GOOGLE’s whole letter to the Committee here: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf
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All the above are MASSIVE wins for the American people, the First Amendment, and freedom. We won’t stop fighting to protect free speech.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Today’s decision is a huge victory for the separation of powers and the American people. Rogue district court judges should not be able to unilaterally delay President Trump’s agenda that 77 million Americans voted for this past November.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Did Pfizer executives conspire to delay COVID-19 vaccine testing to influence the 2020 election? Based on our oversight, it sure looks like it.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Gang members that Joe Biden let into the country are now attacking police officers. President Trump wants them out. But Democrats are fighting it. Why? https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/us-news/migrant-tren-de-aragua-punks-brawl-with-nypd-cops-in-wild-times-square-melee/
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
"Judge Boasberg Keeps Getting Assigned Trump Cases. Lawmakers Want to Know Why." https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/05/05/jim-jordan-letter-on-judge-boasberg-n2656554#google_vignette
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
.@repdarrellissa has a bill that would stop radical judges from imposing nationwide injunctions on President Trump’s agenda — which 77 million Americans voted for. We passed that bill out of the Judiciary Committee. Let’s make sure we get it to the President’s desk to sign!
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Why was Fani Willis's office coordinating with the sham January 6th Committee? We want answers.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Clapper. Brennan. Hayden. All pushed the fake Russia story on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Now President Trump has revoked their security clearances. Good!
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
MUST READ: @RepLoudermilk releases a report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th Committee. It was all a sham. Read it here: https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/6/d/6dae7b82-7683-4f56-a177-ba98695e600d/145DD5A70E967DEEC1F511764D3E6FA1.final-interim-report.pdf https://t.co/nAQw22Vt2D
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
26 Confidential Human Sources were at the rally in D.C. on January 6. 17 entered the restricted area. 4 entered the Capitol. 3 were specifically deployed by the FBI to be at the rally. 2 were paid by the FBI. 0 were arrested.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Chris Wray’s FBI: -Censored Americans -Labeled pro-life Catholics as extremists -Spied on your private finances -Spied on Congressional members and staff -Retaliated against whistleblowers Americans deserve better.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan gives Fani Willis deadline to hand over documents in Trump investigation probe https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/jim-jordan-fani-willis-deadline-documents-trump-investigation-probe
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Jack Smith’s weaponized case against President Trump FAILED. But Jack Smith is not above the law. We still want ALL documents and communications from his office. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-demands-smith-retain-all-records-related-trump-prosecutions-special-counsels-office-winds-down.amp
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
HOW THE FBI “PREBUNKED” A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE BIDEN FAMILY’S CORRUPTION BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION The FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was real & worked for MONTHS to prime Big Tech to censor the @nypost story. Here’s how the FBI "prebunked" the biggest story of the election. 🧵 https://t.co/fmy0D4eouZ
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
In late 2019, the FBI obtained and secretly confirmed that the Hunter Biden laptop was real. The laptop had damning material showing the Biden family’s corrupt influence-peddling scheme. https://t.co/c24QgLrVyk
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Just a few months later, while in possession of Hunter’s laptop, the FBI started meeting with Big Tech to warn about potential Russian disinformation ahead of the election. In total, the FBI and Big Tech met over 30 times in 2020 before the Biden family corruption story came out.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
FBI warned Big Tech to watch for: WHO: Russians. WHAT: Hack-and-Leak operation. WHEN: October surprise. WHY: To reveal “links between the Biden family and Ukraine, including Burisma.” Internal Facebook emails a MONTH before @nypost story came out show Big Tech got specific warnings:
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The FBI spent months establishing the who, what, when, & why behind a potential foreign hack-and-leak operation. And it just so happened to match the damning contents about Biden family corruption on Hunter Biden’s laptop—which the FBI had since late 2019. Quite the coincidence!
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But it wasn’t a coincidence. @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization obtained testimony from key FBI witnesses that the FBI officials who knew the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop were the same ones meeting with Big Tech when Big Tech was warned of a “hack-and-leak” involving the Bidens. https://t.co/85Kg1jU5mi
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Then, when the @nypost Biden family corruption story came out, Big Tech did what the FBI primed them to do – they censored it. Facebook demoted it for a week right before the election, and Twitter prevented anyone from sharing the link to the story. https://t.co/ImifjyHmZb
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Shocking internal notes from a Microsoft employee from the day the @nypost story came out confirm that the FBI “tipped” Big Tech off about “this Burisma story” a “week” earlier. This was election interference, plain and simple. https://t.co/Kf877xrkNV
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Big Tech knew this work with the FBI would affect the 2020 election. In an internal chat, Facebook employees joked that when they get called to testify about "why we influenced the 2020 election," they could “say we have been meeting for YEARS with the US gov’t to plan for it.” https://t.co/ULdS6JBKmW
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And Facebook’s communications team didn’t fear that the press would criticize them for censoring a true story on the Biden family’s influence peddling. Why? As they joked about internally the night the story broke: “The Press is only as good to you as you are bad to Trump” https://t.co/EKWYAj4RuK
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Internal Facebook messages obtained by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization show that Big Tech employees knew their “trusted secret squirrel partners”—in the US gov’t—would give them cover for censoring the story even though they wouldn’t be able to prove that the laptop was hacked. https://t.co/mNv0Mye6vE
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Right on cue, just five days after the @nypost story was published, 51 former intelligence community members, organized by @SecBlinken and the Biden campaign, lied to the American people, incorrectly calling the story Russian disinformation. https://t.co/pWpQd8rkZ5
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Big Tech censored the most important story of the 2020 election because the FBI spent months priming them to. Today, Big Tech executives, like Mark Zuckerberg @finkd, now admit that it was wrong to censor the @nypost story, and point the finger at the FBI. https://t.co/m2KqiWcvR8
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
But Big Tech knew better at the time. Even though the story was obviously not Russian disinformation, Big Tech continued to censor it because they knew that’s what the Biden-Harris Administration would want.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
As Facebook’s senior leadership debated about censoring the @nypost story, Nick Clegg, VP of Global Affairs, explained why they had to continue to censor: “Our calls on this [decision] could colour the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else” https://t.co/rUUm1Ho3zq
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
This was just the beginning of Big Tech’s censorship at the Biden-Harris Administration’s behest. A few months later, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon began caving to the Biden-Harris White House’s pressure to censor American speech, including true information and jokes. https://t.co/FJDJ5Pk4OZ
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
To learn more about the FBI’s interference in the 2020 election and what might be next, click the link below to read our latest report. https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FBI-Election-Interference-Report-FINAL-w-appendix--10-30-24.pdf
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The FBI: Won’t tell us why they released the Trump bounty letter. Won’t brief us on Iran hacking President Trump’s campaign. Is slow walking the IG’s report on whether confidential sources were present on January 6. Is still retaliating against Marcus Allen.
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“@JudiciaryGOP wants to hear from FBI analyst who told Twitter Hunter Biden laptop was ‘real’” https://nypost.com/2024/09/26/us-news/house-judiciary-wants-to-hear-from-fbi-analyst-who-told-twitter-hunter-biden-laptop-was-real/
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Under “Border Czar” Kamala Harris we have: -Thousands of missing alien children -Venezuelan prison gangs thriving in multiple cities -Migrants flooding small towns across the country It's intentional.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Iran steals Trump campaign data. Provides it to the Harris campaign. That story disappears. Why isn’t the media covering it like the Russia “collusion” scandal?
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Illegal aliens have taken over towns as big as New York City and as small as Springfield, Ohio. Don’t think it can’t happen where you live too.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Thousands of Haitian migrants have taken over Springfield, Ohio. -Depleting government resources. -Straining hospitals and schools. -Reportedly eating random birds and pets. “Border Czar” Kamala Harris doesn’t care.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
New document obtained by @JudiciaryGOP: When Matthew Colangelo applied to work for Letitia James, guess who he listed as references. -DNC Chair Tom Perez -Now Biden White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients It’s always been a political hit job. https://t.co/YEmaU58ZJF
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THE AMAZON FILES PART 3 – AMAZON’S CENSORED BOOKS LIST We knew that @Amazon censored books because of pressure from the Biden @WhiteHouse. Now we know which books: --Children’s Books --Books for Parents --Books critical of Big Pharma 🧵 Thread:
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.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization obtained internal Amazon documents showing that the urgent “impetus” for Amazon censoring books in March 2021 was “criticism from the Biden administration.” To censor the books, Amazon created a “new [Do Not Promote] class for anti-vax books.” https://t.co/gM0VMYJ1qy
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Internal emails reveal that Amazon initially added 43 books to its newly created “Do Not Promote” class of allegedly anti-vaccine books. These pro-censorship changes were being made “due to criticism from the Biden people.” https://t.co/495klI0Djz
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
In response to a subpoena from @JudiciaryGOP, @Amazon revealed the 43 book titles it censored because of the Biden White House’s pressure. Whether you love or hate the books on this list, no bookstore should be censoring books because of government pressure. https://t.co/64PGF1fxJU
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The Biden White House’s pressure led Amazon to censor CHILDREN’S BOOKS. That’s right. Picture books. For children.
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Before COVID, a children’s book author dared to draft a book for unvaccinated children facing discrimination, “especially in California or New York.” The author said the book “promotes love, understanding, and kindness to everyone.” Biden and Amazon preach "tolerance." Right? https://t.co/9ZoCZqKeDv
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
The children’s book said the vaccinated & unvaccinated can be friends. Instead of censoring it, Amazon should have sent the book to Fauci, @GavinNewsom, and @JoeBiden. Remember when they said everyone had to comply with their made-up rules and vax mandates or lose their jobs? https://t.co/32rkxBaqnm
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Top-selling books for parents also were targeted. There is nothing the Biden Admin and the elites hate more than parents making their own decisions about their children’s education, health, and values. https://t.co/YghMICFqlx
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And if these efforts weren’t enough to effectively deamplify opposing viewpoints, Amazon also censored books reviewing scientific papers. The book also had the audacity to address whether Big Pharma’s funding of research has the potential to create conflicts of interest. https://t.co/U1UiJYwpLP
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Under the guise of combatting “anti-vaccine” misinformation, Amazon censored everything from picture books for children to books criticizing Big Pharma.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
These 43 books are only the tip of the iceberg. Amazon, YouTube, and Facebook each caved to the Biden White House’s censorship campaign. https://t.co/Zw2juwoNow
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Don’t let the Biden Admin tell you that their censorship campaign was about concerns of misinformation going viral on social media. They were going after BOOKS too. This is—and always has been—about suppressing disfavored views, not purported challenges of new technologies.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
This is unconstitutional government censorship, full stop. Whether you agree with this speech or not, free speech is free speech and the Biden Admin pressured private companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.
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.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization will continue this critical investigative work to further inform legislative solutions to dismantle the Biden Administration’s censorship regime.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Today, we sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice regarding Hunter Biden and James Biden lying to Congress. Read it here: https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-jordan-and-smith-refer-hunter-and-james-biden-for-criminal-prosecution-as-part-of-impeachment-inquiry-of-president-biden%EF%BF%BC/
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THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 6 THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE CENSORSHIP OF THE LAB LEAK THEORY 🧵 Thread:
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On July 16, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg texted Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, and Joel Kaplan. Three of the highest ranking executives at Facebook. Could Facebook tell the world that “the [Biden] WH put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory?" https://t.co/B1Wno3ayTW
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Earlier that day, Joe Biden had told the world that Facebook was “killing people,” and the company was livid.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Nick Clegg described the Biden White House as “highly cynical and dishonest.” https://t.co/5WHqqtr21P
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Sheryl Sandberg said they were being scapegoated because the White House was failing to meet its vaccination numbers. https://t.co/ZV4OE8gjMr
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Facebook felt that they had been combatting alleged misinformation—aka censoring Americans—all year! https://t.co/HQxQKrwX5z
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Since February 2021, the company had been censoring the “Wuhan lab leak theory” “in response to … tense conversations with the new [Biden] Administration.” https://t.co/lB9wg7tlDe
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
In late May 2021, Facebook finally stopped removing content about the lab leak theory, though still demoted it.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
When Facebook employees informed Mark Zuckerberg of the reversal and why they censored the lab leak theory in the first place, Zuckerberg warned that this is what happens when the company “compromises [its] standards due to pressure from an administration.” https://t.co/qZAUfqrPxp
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Other documents confirm this. In July 2021, Clegg asked why Facebook had been censoring the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origins. The answer could not have been clearer: “Because we were under pressure from the administration . . . We shouldn’t have done it.” https://t.co/InrXBDXYVL
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
These documents show the CHILLING EFFECT government coercion has on free expression. Facebook knew the White House wanted them to censor, but they didn’t exactly know what or how much.
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The First Amendment is first for a reason. Without it, we cannot enjoy our other liberties. More to come…
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-Venezuelan gang member released into the country by Joe Biden's DHS -Now accused of carrying out a drive-by shooting -All in "sanctuary city" Chicago https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/26/bidens-dhs-released-venezuelan-gang-member-into-u-s-now-accused-of-drive-by-shooting/
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
On day one of Biden’s presidency he: -Revoked Trump’s immigration enforcement orders -Terminated the national emergency declaration used to fund the border wall -Deferred the removal of certain illegal aliens Now, we’re experiencing a border crisis like never before.
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THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House” Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS. 🧵 Thread:
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of. “Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”?
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Andy Slavitt—the senior Biden White House official who demanded that Facebook censor a meme and true information—was pressuring Amazon at the same time. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-bowed-to-white-house-pressure-removed-covid-posts-2df436b7
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On March 2, 2021, Slavitt fired off an email demanding to know who he and his White House colleagues could talk to at the company about “the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?” https://t.co/aWSMp3aSOc
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How did the Biden White House conclude that there was “propaganda and misinformation” in books sold in Amazon’s bookstore? The White House ran keyword searches for controversial topics, such as “vaccine,” and emailed Amazon when it didn’t like how the search results appeared: https://t.co/FmVYPJQR6n
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Initially, Amazon decided to hold off on “doing a manual intervention” to censor books. Why? Not out of any commitment to free speech, but because doing so would be “too visible” to the American public and likely to spur criticism from conservative media. https://t.co/166wXiPsha
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Why was the Biden White House so upset with Amazon? Because Amazon believed “retailers are different than social media communities” & provided their “customers with access to a variety of viewpoints.” For the Biden Admin, letting Americans think for themselves was unacceptable. https://t.co/tKjBTesZoU
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A week later, on March 9, 2021, Amazon met with the White House. Internal Amazon documents reveal Amazon’s “top talking points” going into the meeting. One of the key questions was whether the Biden White House wanted books banned or just buried deep in the search results: https://t.co/wnWj9eCyJf
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So how did Amazon’s meeting with the Biden White House go?
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
On March 2, 2021, Amazon determined internally that it would “not be doing a manual intervention today.” The online bookstore set a meeting with senior Biden White House officials for March 9, 2021.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
What was the purpose of this meeting with the Biden White House? To see if “the Admin is asking us to remove books, or are they more concerned about search results/order (or both)?” https://t.co/I8qd3WCeY4
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Why did Amazon agree to take this meeting? Because they were “feeling pressure from the White House” https://t.co/n7Xe0D5lhH
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After the White House spent a week berating Amazon, what did the online bookstore do? Starting March 9—the same day as its meeting with the White House—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines were not effective. https://t.co/8YEXjAL8BD
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And that wasn’t all. Amazon also considered other ways “to reduce the visibility” of certain books that the Biden White House disliked. https://t.co/q9JC1LYb5m
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
That’s right. Amazon caved to the pressure from the Biden White House to censor speech. @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization are investigating. https://t.co/P1hlB3c5WO
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To be continued…
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
We now know the federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP,” to financial institutions if Americans completed transactions using those terms. What was also flagged? If you bought a religious text, like a BIBLE, or shopped at Bass Pro Shop. https://t.co/jjRaVNItWz
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
We now know Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC, made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden. How long until the White House changes its story again?
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THE YOUTUBE FILES PART 2. To appease the Biden White House, Big Tech gave into the federal government’s relentless pressure campaign to censor Americans’ speech, including true information. YouTube capitulated first; Facebook caved next. 🧵 Thread: https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-admin-praised-youtubes-censorship-used-it-to-pressure-facebook-to-intensify-suppression-of-vaccine-stories
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization obtained internal Google & Facebook docs revealing which Big Tech companies buckled first under pressure from the Biden White House to censor Americans’ posts, including true statements, jokes, memes, and opinions.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
And once YouTube (Google) relented to censoring more content, the Biden White House used that as leverage to further increase the pressure on Facebook to do the same.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Remember how the Biden White House was “outraged” that Facebook didn’t censor a meme?
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
In that same April 2021 “hour long call,” Biden White House Senior Advisor Andy Slavitt warned Nick Clegg, Facebook’s President for Global Affairs, that “YT has made significant advances to remove content leading to vaccine hesitancy whilst [Facebook has] lagged behind.”
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
That’s right. The Biden Admin praised Google for censoring Americans while criticizing Facebook. In an internal Facebook email obtained by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization, Clegg described his call with the Biden White House regarding censorship.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
The email reveals that Nick Clegg—former UK Deputy Prime Minister—tried to reason with the Biden White House that, under America’s First Amendment, “removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US.”
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
But the Biden White House was unmoved, and the response to Facebook was clear: you need to be like Google and YouTube and censor more.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
In response to the White House’s demands, Clegg asked his colleagues at Facebook to check whether the content is available on YouTube because the White House’s “assumption is that [YouTube] would never accept something like this.”
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
But why did Facebook and Google/YouTube relent to the White House’s pressure? Because the companies had other policy priorities that they feared the White House could use as leverage against them.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Meanwhile, the Google/YouTube Gov’t Affairs team cautioned that they were “seek[ing] to work closely with [the Biden] administration on multiple policy fronts.”
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
And so the gatekeepers of the modern town square relented—they censored Americans’ true speech and even jokes—all to appease the censors in the Biden White House.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
While the Biden @WhiteHouse is trying to obstruct our investigation and hide its role in censoring Americans, the investigation by the @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization continues to make progress.
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Yesterday, we issued deposition subpoenas to two senior Biden White House officials, Rob Flaherty and Andy Slavitt, who were central to communicating the Biden White House’s censorship demands. https://nypost.com/2023/11/30/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-former-wh-censorship-chief-rob-flaherty-ahead-of-landmark-supreme-court-case/
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Stay tuned...
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
THE YOUTUBE FILES PART 1. BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURED YOUTUBE TO CENSOR AMERICANS. Internal docs from Google (YouTube’s parent company) obtained by @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization show that the Biden White House wanted Americans censored. 🧵 Thread: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/white-house-worked-youtube-censor-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-house-judiciary-committee
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
Almost one year ago today, @mtaibbi published the first edition of the Twitter Files, followed by other journalists including @shellenberger, @bariweiss, @lhfang, & @AlexBerenson. https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394?s=20
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After issuing subpoenas to Big Tech, @JudiciaryGOP released the Facebook Files this summer revealing: -The Biden White House wanted true information censored. -Facebook changed its policies because of pressure from the Biden Admin. https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1684595375875760128?s=20
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“Facebook removed content related to Covid-19 in response to pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made, according to internal company communications viewed by The Wall Street Journal.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-bowed-to-white-house-pressure-removed-covid-posts-2df436b7
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Now, here’s the first edition of the YouTube Files. We knew the Biden White House was pushing Facebook and Twitter to censor more. Now we know the White House was repeatedly pressuring Google to censor content on YouTube.
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On April 12, 2021, Rob Flaherty—Biden’s Director of Digital Strategy—emailed Google wanting to know how Google could better “crack down on vaccine misinformation” and to discuss “ways the White House (and our COVID experts) can partner in your product work.”
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Privately, Google understood what this request meant as internal docs obtained by @JudiciaryGOP reveal: “Rob’s questions were very YT focused” & he “dug in on our decision making for borderline content,” which YT says is content that doesn’t “violate our Community Guidelines”
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A week later, on April 21, 2021, one of the Google Gov’t Affairs team members, who had been on recent calls with the Biden White House, specifically Rob Flaherty, explained plainly what Flaherty wanted: “Really he’s interested in what we’re seeing that is NOT coming down.”
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YouTube’s Gov’t Affairs team then emailed the YouTube Product team, warning the Biden “White House is very interested in our work on borderline content,” and the Product team should brief the White House “to prevent anything from potentially spiraling out of control.”
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Another week later, YouTube’s Gov’t Affairs team emailed the YouTube Product team to update them on the situation. The Google and YouTube Gov’t Affairs teams were having “conversations with the White House staff on YouTube’s policies.”
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Both Google & YouTube’s Gov’t Affairs teams wanted the YouTube Product Team to meet with the White House staff, who were “familiar with many of [YouTube’s] policies and efforts” removing content, because the WH “staff continue[d] to have questions on the raise/reduce efforts.”
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The company needed this meeting ASAP because: 1) there was “significant attention coming from the [White House] staff on this issue”; and 2) Google was seeking “to work closely with [the Biden] administration on multiple policy fronts” and needed to appease them.
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.@SenRandPaul and Republicans in the House introduced legislation that would provide victims of government censorship with a remedy—the ability to sue the government bureaucrats responsible for causing your constitutionally protected speech to be removed. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-senator-paul-fight-protect-americans-first-amendment-rights
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.@JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization will continue this critical investigative work to further inform legislative solutions to the vast government censorship enterprise.
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Tune in today for the @Weaponization hearing marking the one-year anniversary since the first #TwitterFiles report. Stay tuned... https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-4
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BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HUNDREDS of secret reports show how @DHSgov’s @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), @Stanford and others worked together to censor AMERICANS before the 2020 election, including true information, jokes, and opinions. 🧵 THREAD:
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The federal government, disinformation “experts” at universities, Big Tech, and others worked together through the Election Integrity Partnership to monitor & censor Americans’ speech.
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According to one EIP member, the EIP was created “at the request of CISA.” The head of the EIP also said that EIP was created after “working on some monitoring ideas with CISA.”
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Here’s how it worked: -EIP “stakeholders” (including the federal gov’t) would submit misinformation reports -EIP would “analyze” the report and find similar content across platforms -EIP would submit the report to Big Tech, often with a recommendation on how to censor
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.@JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization obtained these nonpublic documents and information from @Stanford only after the threat of contempt. You can read all the details in the report here: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf
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Who was targeted? Americans of all political stripes, but especially conservatives: @realDonaldTrump@SenThomTillis@newtgingrich@GovMikeHuckabee@mtgreenee@seanhannity@MZHemingway@pnjaban@charliekirk11@RealCandaceO@JackPosobiec@bennyjohnson@TomFitton@TheBabylonBee
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And it didn’t stop there, here are some more accounts that were targeted: @NEWSMAX@michellemalkin@seanmdav@RubinReport@paulsperry_@tracybeanz @ChanelRion @JamesOKeefeIII
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What speech was targeted for censorship? -True information -Jokes -Political opinions Here are a few examples:
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Who did we miss? Did you have a social media post that was targeted by the EIP? It’s clear why @Stanford tried only produced these after @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization threatened contempt.
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The American people deserve to know if they were targeted by their own government and so-called “disinformation” experts. The Committee is making the data from these reports publicly available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSbP06KE51ds51-Ha6MXkuyoWuCLW168Wz9CMBbhe1BV1IVLxG660eDBUpaVw_Hs5KdhvTvOLS7BUit/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false
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As always, more to come. Read our report here: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf Stay tuned…
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Joe Biden’s DHS would rather police your speech than secure the southern border.
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Notice the difference between when Trump was in charge vs. when Biden’s in charge? https://t.co/KTXlcdXIy0
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Burisma wanted Hunter Biden to pressure D.C. for policy changes in Ukraine. Paid him to do it. And Joe Biden, in charge of policy in Ukraine, did just that.
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THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 5. BIDEN WHITE HOUSE RELIED ON FOREIGN “DISINFO” ACTIVISTS TO PRESSURE FACEBOOK TO CENSOR AMERICANS. Internal FB docs recently obtained by @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization show the Biden Admin and foreign activists wanted Americans censored. 🧵 Thread:
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The UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) claimed that @RobertKennedyJr & 11 others were responsible for 65% “of anti‑vaccine content circulating on social media.” But CCDH’s absurd claim about the so-called “Disinformation Dozen” was itself disinformation.
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First, that 65% stat? CCDH was off by quite a bit. Facebook knew the actual number was closer to 0.05%. Second, despite attacking @RobertKennedyJr and the others as the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” a lot of their accounts were “completely benign” according to Facebook.
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As Facebook admitted internally, a lot of these accounts were just Americans expressing “vaccine hesitancy,” which is often “not misinfo,” even under Facebook’s policies.
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But that didn’t stop the Biden White House from repeating the fake stat every chance they got. Jen Psaki repeated the CCDH’s disinformation almost verbatim to the country. Watch: https://www.c-span.org/video/?513448-1/white-house-daily-briefing
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The CCDH published its report on March 24, 2021. By April 2021, Facebook employees were preparing a draft memo to Mark Zuckerberg about “pressure from … the White House” to remove the Disinfo Dozen even though they did “not believe we currently have a clear path for removal.”
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Facebook was stunned that the Biden White House seemed to actually believe the CCDH’s obviously false stat and was relying on these foreign activists’ “data” to “guide major governmental policy decisions.”
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To be clear, the Biden White House didn’t just want Facebook to censor the Disinformation Dozen’s Facebook posts. They wanted EVERYTHING censored—across all social media platforms. Remember when Jen Psaki said this:
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Facebook understood what that meant. If Twitter or YouTube censored you, the Biden White House wanted Facebook to censor you too.
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The Biden White House wanted this type of censorship even though Facebook’s policy was to “only do cross-platform disables for child safety and dangerous organization violations.”
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The Biden White House’s censorship demands didn’t stop there. They also wanted Facebook to remove all URL links to off-platform websites, which would “remove significant amounts of benign content posted by regular users, such as . . . person experiences or government criticism.”
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Facebook got the message loud and clear. Right after Jen Psaki repeated CCDH’s false stats from the White House podium, Facebook Leadership asked for an update ASAP on how much Facebook was censoring the Disinformation Dozen:
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The answer? Facebook had been censoring the Disinformation Dozen since March 2021, including removing the Instagram account of @RobertKennedyJr and ultimately taking “aggressive action” against 11 of the 12 by July.
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That 12th account? His only crime was posting “about internet censorship.” Ironic. Facebook said it was “watching his profile closely.”
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In fact, Facebook continued to “monitor” all of the so-called Disinformation Dozen accounts, trying to find a way to censor more. The problem? The “majority” of the accounts in question were not spreading misinformation.
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Besides removing certain accounts, Facebook also secretly demoted affiliated accounts by varying degrees to expire at different times, such as @ChildrensHD founded by @RobertKennedyJr.
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In late July 2021, Facebook’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, had a meeting with the Surgeon General’s Office. In the days leading up, Facebook knew the Biden Admin would be asking about the CCDH’s misleading “Disinformation Dozen” statistics.
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Following the meeting, Nick Clegg had to report back to the Surgeon General’s Office—did Facebook censor the Disinformation Dozen to try to get the Biden Admin to back off? The answer: Yes, but “nothing will be persuasive to that crew.”
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Was Facebook’s censorship of the Disinformation Dozen enough? Of course not. You can never satisfy the Biden censorship regime. President Biden himself helped ensure that CCDH’s disinformation had “unrelenting staying power.”
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By August, things hadn’t improved. CCDH’s false Disinfo Dozen stat was “routinely cited in the press” and contributed to FB having a “tough relationship with” the Biden White House. So Facebook “tailored” solutions around the White House’s concerns rather than real problems.
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And that’s how the censorship regime works: Foreign activists at the CCDH feed false info to the Biden White House. The Biden Admin then uses the full weight of the federal govt to coerce Facebook to censor Americans, Biden’s critics and political opponents, and the truth.
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The Committee has already demanded documents from Facebook and the Biden White House. Last week, we issued a subpoena to CCDH to determine its role in the censorship regime. CCDH has admitted that it communicates with the Executive Branch and Big Tech about content moderation.
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Who else has the left-wing CCDH attacked? @realDailyWire@realchrisfrufo@libsoftiktok@JackPosobiec@Timcast@BreitbartNews@NEWSMAX@townhallcom@theMRC@RepMTG @WashTimes
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CCDH’s deadline to respond to the Committee’s subpoena is September 29 at 9 a.m. To be continued...
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The National Archives admitted that it’s in possession of nearly 5,400 emails and documents that potentially show Joe Biden used a fake name during his vice presidency. Why?
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Alternate headline: “DOJ sues @elonmusk for hiring too many Americans.” Weaponization of government!
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-They spied on parents speaking up at school board meetings. -They raided President Trump’s home. -They targeted traditional Catholics. Joe Biden’s Justice Department.
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THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 4. FBI LIED ABOUT MEETING WITH BIG TECH REGARDING NY POST’S HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY Internal FB docs reveal that an FBI Special Agent made false statements in testimony about the FBI’s role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story 🧵 Thread:
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FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan is the main conduit between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech. Agent Chan was in the meeting between the FBI and Facebook on Oct. 14, 2020—the day the @nypost published its story on the Hunter Biden laptop.
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Laura Dehmlow is the current Section Chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force. On Oct. 14, when Facebook asked if the laptop was real, she responded “no comment” even though the FBI had the laptop and knew it was real.
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In July, @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization interviewed Laura Dehmlow. Her testimony was shocking, revealing that the FBI deliberately withheld critical information from social media companies about Hunter Biden’s laptop the day that the @nypost story broke.
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In her interview, we learned, for the first time, that the FBI met with Twitter on October 14 before meeting with Facebook the same day.
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When Twitter asked if the laptop was real, an FBI agent said “yes.” But a second FBI agent—a lawyer—jumped in, cut him off, and said, “no further comment.” Read the transcript for yourself:
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But it gets better. Dehmlow revealed that the FBI then had emergency internal deliberations to decide how to answer that same question going forward. Someone at the FBI—the FBI refuses to say who—ordered that the FBI would say “no comment” going forward.
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Later that same day—October 14—Facebook met with the FBI, including Chan and Dehmlow. Facebook asked the same question: is the laptop real? Now having its story straight, the FBI responded, “no comment.”
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Did Dehmlow know that the FBI had the laptop and it was real? Yes. Did other key members of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force know? Yes. The FBI knew the laptop was real and yet decided it would say “no comment.”
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We know what happened next. Twitter and Facebook censored the @nypost story. The Biden campaign secretly set in motion the events that led to the 51 former intel officials discrediting the story as Russian disinformation.
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So, just weeks before the 2020 election, most Americans either did not hear about the story or were misled to believe that it was the product of Russian disinformation. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-hunter-biden-laptop-former-intelligence-officials/
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Fast forward to November 2022. Elvis Chan is being deposed as one of the key figures in the government’s censorship regime. He is obligated to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. You can watch the whole deposition here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwgFl-7jkc
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Chan first testified about the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting where Dehmlow said “no comment” when Facebook asked if the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
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Chan was then asked if the FBI had any meetings with companies, other than the Facebook meeting, about the Hunter Biden story? Chan responds that he is “confident” that he was not part of any meetings with Big Tech about Hunter Biden.
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Chan was asked again if, other than the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting, he was “aware of any communications between anyone at Facebook and anyone at the FBI related to the Hunter Biden laptop story?” He answered: “No.”
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COMPLETELY FALSE. The Committee has recently obtained an internal Facebook document PROVING that Agent Chan had a secret “follow up” call with Facebook about the Hunter Biden laptop story on October 15, just one day after the @nypost story and the first Facebook meeting!
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Those weren’t Agent Chan’s only inconsistent statements. Agent Chan also claimed in the deposition that he had “no internal knowledge of [the FBI’s] investigation” involving Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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But the Facebook employee, an ex-FBI agent, wrote—the day after the story broke—that “Chan advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within the FBI.” Chan also told FB that “there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection...of the leaks.”
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Of course, there was “no evidence” of “any foreign connection.” The laptop was real, and the FBI knew it. The FBI had the laptop since December 2019. https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/fbi-verified-authenticity-of-hunter-bidens-abandoned-laptop-in-november-2019-irs-whistleblower-gary-shapley/
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Is there any wonder why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to interview Agent Chan?
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Our investigation remains ongoing and we will continue to update the public with our findings as we prepare and consider legislation to fight the censorship-industrial complex and protect the First Amendment.
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Read about our latest efforts here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-moves-make-easier-americans-sue-biden-admin-collusion-big-tech https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/bill-sue-offiicals-censorship-social-media
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And that federal case against the Biden Administration? That’s still ongoing. On July 4, a federal court granted an injunction prohibiting the Biden Administration from continuing to censor Americans.
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That injunction would stop the government from censoring Americans. Biden’s DOJ is APPEALING the decision.
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument this Thursday. The freedom of speech is at stake. Too be continued...
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THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 3. Newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden Admin officials reveal more about the lengths the Biden White House wanted to go to control true speech on Facebook. 🧵 Thread: https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-facebook-files-reveal-lengths-wh-willing-go-try-control-covid-narrative-social-media
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In 2021, the White House wanted to control what narratives and true content was posted on Facebook surrounding #COVID19. President Biden went so far to say that Facebook was “killing people” for allowing certain statements to be published on the site. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/biden-facebook-covid-19/index.html
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Rob Flaherty, President Biden’s then-Director of Digital Strategy, repeatedly put pressure on Facebook to explain its content decisions. “We have to explain to President, Ron, people, why there is misinfo on the internet…” https://t.co/zUZYbKHfA9
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For example, Flaherty questioned whether Facebook was doing enough to reduce traffic from sites like the @nypost. “I’m curious – NY Post churning out articles every day... What is supposed to happen to that from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?” https://t.co/zC8QFWcckZ
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But that wasn’t enough for the Biden White House. Flaherty wanted Facebook to go a step further. He wanted Facebook to kick people off its site. https://t.co/zh2ccl9C1d
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The Biden White House’s effort to censor opposing viewpoints only grew. So, they upped the pressure. Flaherty demanded that Facebook “play ball” and work with the Biden White House on censorship. He called it his “dream.” https://t.co/J0Z2AhDx8m
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But that’s not all. The Biden White House wanted to control what you saw on Facebook. They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the New York Times and less from the @realDailyWire and @TomiLahren. https://t.co/oZUDDv6324
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Why did they do that? Because they didn’t think you were smart enough to decide for yourself. President Biden’s head of strategic communications and public engagement for the #COVID19 response, Courtney Rowe, mocked Real America’s ability to determine what's true and what isn’t. https://t.co/NS3PJBM7M5
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Facebook knew it had to act. One employee tried to explain to the White House that if the company couldn’t “remove” content, it could at least “contain it.” https://t.co/unlGNYpSAd
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But Flaherty continued to press for more content moderation and CONTROL on so-called “bad” content. Read ⤵️ https://t.co/OpmcIktt0K
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And of course, Facebook caved. The company ADMITTED to the White House that it reduced content of certain posts – even if the posts didn’t violate the company’s terms and contained TRUE information.
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These newly subpoenaed meeting notes continue to show the Biden White House’s desire to direct and control content on Facebook. More evidence of the censorship-industrial complex.
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To be continued…