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.
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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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://t.co/7HdqFn47dw
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.” pic.twitter.com/HY4LZD7U8j
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
Facebook understood what that meant.
If Twitter or YouTube censored you, the Biden White House wanted Facebook to censor you too.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.” pic.twitter.com/CXYylY8KqQ
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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. pic.twitter.com/9kiVe4cVhL
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.” pic.twitter.com/B2VNeeUXcv
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
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.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023
CCDH’s deadline to respond to the Committee’s subpoena is September 29 at 9 a.m.
To be continued…
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 5, 2023