through reclaimthenet:
A just lately revealed electronic mail has supplied extra proof of President Joe Biden’s administration asking tech platforms to censor content material that challenges the federal authorities’s Covid messaging.
The e-mail reveals the Biden White Home’s Digital Director for the COVID-19 Response Group, Clarke Humphrey, requesting that Twitter take away a tweet from environmental well being lawyer and creator Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Wished to flag the beneath tweet and am questioning if we will get shifting on the method for having it eliminated ASAP,” Humphrey wrote to Twitter within the January 2021 electronic mail. “After which if we will preserve an eye fixed out for tweets that fall on this similar ~style that may be nice.”
The tweet that Humphrey was wanting to have eliminated linked to an article concerning the loss of life of former skilled baseball participant Hank Aaron 18 days after he obtained his Covid vaccine. Kennedy Jr. tweeted that Aaron’s “tragic loss of life is a part of a wave of suspicious deaths amongst aged intently following administration of #COVID #vaccines.”
Twitter seemingly rejected the censorship request and the tweet remains to be accessible.
The e-mail was revealed by Missouri Legal professional Common (AG) Andrew Bailey and is certainly one of many paperwork which have been launched as a part of a lawsuit that the Missouri and Louisiana AGs filed in opposition to the Biden administration in Might. The lawsuit alleges that the Biden admin has illegally violated the First Modification by colluding with Huge Tech on censorship.
Louisiana AG Jeff Landry revealed one other doc which he mentioned confirmed “Fb telling the White Home how they will censor [Robert F. Kennedy Jr].
JIM TREACHER: Biden Tried to Silence Tucker Carlson on Fb. “Keep in mind, we wouldn’t know any of these items if Elon Musk hadn’t dropped $44 billion to purchase Twitter. He opened the floodgates, and now all of this sewage is spilling out. What number of different social media firms have been censoring conservatives like this? I assume the reply is: All of them.”
Rob Flaherty tells fb to censor @tuckercarlson pic.twitter.com/mxUT2C8nna
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) January 6, 2023
