{"id":341,"date":"2023-01-11T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=341"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:26:21","slug":"white-house-pressed-facebook-to-censor-tucker-carlson-over-vaccine-comments-documents-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"White House Pressed Facebook To Censor Tucker Carlson Over Vaccine Comments, Documents Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to newly released documents, the White House pressed Facebook to censor Fox News host Tucker Carlson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basis for their reasoning? Carlson said \u201cvaccines\u201d \u201cdon\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In what is eerily similar to many of the other scandalous uncoverings the American public has learned from the trickling out&nbsp;<em>Twitter files<\/em>, the government has \u2013 yet again \u2013 urged a big tech giant to silence opinions they don\u2019t agree with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are screenshots of the email between the White House and an unidentified Facebook employee shared by Louisiana\u2019s Attorney General Jeff Landry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rob Flaherty tells facebook to censor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tuckercarlson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mxUT2C8nna\">pic.twitter.com\/mxUT2C8nna<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGJeffLandry\/status\/1611509683818270720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/06\/white-house-facebook-tucker-carlson-censor\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cSince we\u2019ve been on the phone \u2013 the top post about vaccines today is [T]ucker Carlson saying they don\u2019t work. Yesterday it was Tomi Lehren [sic] saying she won\u2019t take one,\u201d White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty reportedly said in an April 14, 2021 email to an unidentified Facebook employee, which was posted on Twitter by Landry\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis is exactly why I want to know what \u2018Reduction\u2019 actually looks like \u2013 if \u2018reduction\u2019 means \u2018pumping our most vaccine hesitant audience with [T]ucker Carlson saying it doesn\u2019t work\u2019 then\u2026 I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s reduction!\u201d Flaherty continued in the document released by Landry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response, the unidentified Facebook employee reportedly told Flaherty that they were \u201crunning this down now,\u201d according to the document posted by Landry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing about this exchange is surprising. Especially after how much has been exposed and confirmed- thanks to the&nbsp;<em>Twitter Files<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 about the government\u2019s entanglements with big tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only is the White House actively pushing for censorship of its political opponents, but they are doing so in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/elon-musks-twitter-files-expose-government-corporate-conspiracy-to-crush-free-speech-censor-hunter-biden-story-manipulate-2020-elections\/\">back-door round-about<\/a>&nbsp;way that undermines much of what it often promotes including free speech, the fight against misinformation, and holding big corporations accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported last month, Elon Musk is using the&nbsp;<em>Twitter Files<\/em>&nbsp;to showcase the heinous amount of corruption within his newly acquired organization\u2019s woke left-wing management class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Taibbi, for instance, has been one voice demonstrating how Twitter went to obscene lengths to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be \u2018unsafe.\u2019 They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography,\u201d Taibbi shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other juicy tidbits from the Twitter files show how staffers, like former Twitter head of legal, policy and trust, Vijaya Gadde, and former Twitter trust and safety chief Yoel Roth, had seized control from then-CEO Jack Dorsey in order to institute a Democrat-led censorship regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk, who now serves as CEO, fired Gadde and forced Roth out as part of his hostile takeover of the tech giant. Without that move, many examples like Tucker Carlson would have likely remained unknown by the American public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Support Big League Politics by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.revv.co\/donate\"><em>making a donation today<\/em><\/a><em>. You can also donate\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate?hosted_button_id=QMSQNPFUMVM88\"><em>via PayPal<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/BigLeaguePol\"><em>Venmo<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/commerce.coinbase.com\/checkout\/732b29e3-74e9-48d1-a05e-83f42a157e18\"><em>donate crypto<\/em><\/a><em>. Your support helps us take on the powerful and report the truth that the mainstream media wants to silence.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/white-house-pressed-facebook-to-censor-tucker-carlson-over-vaccine-comments-documents-show\/\">White House Pressed Facebook To Censor Tucker Carlson Over Vaccine Comments, Documents Show &#8211; Big League Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to newly released documents, the White House pressed Facebook to censor Fox News host Tucker Carlson.&nbsp; The basis for their reasoning? Carlson said \u201cvaccines\u201d \u201cdon\u2019t work.\u201d In what is eerily similar to many of the other scandalous uncoverings the American public has learned from the trickling out&nbsp;Twitter files, the government has \u2013 yet again \u2013 urged a big tech giant to silence opinions they don\u2019t agree with. Here are screenshots of the email between the White House and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}