Biden Tech Coercion
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A May 1, 2024 report from the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveals some very disturbing findings on how the Biden Administration has been coercing Big Tech platforms into censoring Americans.
Some of the points made:
- Big Tech changed their content moderation policies because of Biden White House pressure.
- “This interim report details the monthslong campaign by the Biden White House to coerce large companies, namely Meta (parent company of Facebook), Alphabet (parent company of YouTube), and Amazon, to censor books, videos, posts, and other content online. By the end of 2021, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon changed their content moderation policies in ways that were directly responsive to criticism from the Biden Administration.”
- The Biden White Touse pushed censorship of books, not just social media.
- In each case, the companies identified the Biden White House’s censorship requests as "pressure" or noted a fear that things could "spiral out of control."
- In February 2021, Facebook increased its censorship of antivaccine content as well as the lab leak theory of the origin of the virus because of “tense conversations with the new [Biden] Administration.”