Saturday, August 31, 2024

Facebook Posts Censored at Biden Admin’s Demand Include COVID-19 Memes, Satire; The Harris-Biden Admin Thought It Could Censor COVID Satire On Facebook. Now That’s Funny, and other C-Virus related stories

Facebook posts censored at Biden admin’s demand include COVID-19 memes, satire:
The Harris-Biden administration’s campaign to censor COVID-related content on Facebook during the height of the pandemic – as revealed by a remorseful Mark Zuckerberg this week – was so aggressive that it even cracked down on lighthearted memes, satirical posts and regular old jokes.
On Monday, Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that “senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, “repeatedly pressured” Facebook parent Meta to “censor” pandemic-related content in 2021, as well as The Post’s exclusive reporting on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.
The takedown requests included posts that Zuckerberg considered “humor and satire.” While he did not give specifics, some examples were previously detailed in the “Facebook Files” compiled by Jordan and released to the public on X beginning in July 2023.
In April 2021, Facebook president of global affairs Nick Clegg told colleagues that Andy Slavitt, a top Biden adviser on COVID-19 policy was “outraged – not too strong a word to describe his reaction – that we did not remove” a certain top-ranked post related to the vaccines.
One of the censored posts was a meme about COVID-19 vaccines.
The post was a meme shared by Facebook user Timothy McComas, which utilized a popular format depicting actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” pointing at his TV screen with a beer and cigarette in hand.
The meme was captioned: “10 years from now you will be watching TV and hear…. ‘Did you or a loved one take the covid vaccine? You may be entitled…’”
Clegg said he “countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US.” --->READ MORE HERE
The Harris-Biden admin thought it could censor COVID satire on Facebook. Now that’s funny:
It’s official: The Harris-Biden administration is a joke. And none of us should be laughing.
On Monday, Facebook founder and Meta honcho Mark Zuckerberg revealed some unfunny truths in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” wrote Zuckerberg, who, as of late, seems to be exhibiting signs of early-onset red-pilling.
Trying to suppress political satire is a dangerous knock at the First Amendment, and an insult to our American values. Kamala Harris owns this dystopian overreach.
This, however, isn’t the first we’ve learned of this administration’s plot to make America glum again with digital censorship. Joy, we hardly knew ye.
In 2023, Jordan released information that Biden White House senior adviser Andy Slavitt, who left his job in June 2021, demanded Facebook remove a hyper-viral, vaccine-critical meme.
It was a shot of Leonardo DiCaprio from “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” pointing at the television and, essentially, saying how in 10 years’ time, we’ll be seeing ambulance-chasing law firm commercials targeting vaccine recipients who may be entitled to compensation.
Slavitt was outraged and reportedly said the post “was directly comparing Covid vaccines to asbestos poisoning in a way that demonstrably inhibits confidence amongst those the Biden administration is trying to reach.”
We won two world wars and defeated communism, but a meme is too scary and potent.
This effort to disappear a topical joke displayed a low regard for Americans’ intelligence — and the administration’s own appetite for authoritarianism.
But to see it in black and white, in Zuckerberg’s own words, is particularly jarring: The White House wanted to kill not just something it viewed as COVID disinformation (what a dumb term), but also humor that chipped away at the left’s stranglehold on a narrative that subjugated us.
Or maybe just gave us a chuckle. --->READ MORE HERE
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