Facebook CEO Admits White House “Repeatedly Pressured” Company to Censor COVID-19 Posts
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and parent company Meta, admitted in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan last month that the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured” his company to censor and remove many COVID-19-related posts in 2021. The letter, dated Aug. 26, 2024, confirmed that the White House repeatedly pressured Meta, a dominant […]
Mark Zuckerberg on Censoring “Misinformation” That Turned Out to Be True
Misinformation has been a really tricky one because there are things that are kind of obviously false, that are maybe factual. But may not be harmful. So are you going to censor someone for just being wrong if there’s no kind of harm implication of what they’re doing? There’s a bunch of real issues and […]
Officials at Federal Gov’t Agencies, White House Sued for Censoring COVID Information
Sixty-seven U.S. federal government agencies and officials, including senior officials in the White House, have been accused of engaging in a widespread campaign of pressuring and colluding with social media platforms to censor users in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Former Missouri Attorney General, Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff […]
NVIC Back Up On Twitter @NVICLoeDown
On Feb. 10, 2023, the National Vaccine Information Center’s (NVIC) Twitter account was re-established and the first tweet I sent out for sharing was this one: Thank you, Elon Musk, for liberating @NVICLoeDown established in 2010 by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a charity founded in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through […]
Facebook Bans Ads “Discouraging” Vaccination
Facebook has announced that the company is implementing a new global policy banning paid advertisements on its platform that it has determined discourage people from getting vaccinated.1 According to a blog authored by Kang-Xing Jin, Head of Health and Rob Leathern, Director of Product Management at Facebook: Today, we’re launching a new global policy that […]
Who is Getting Rich Off Coronavirus Pandemic?
Opinion | In May 2020, the U.S. unemployment rate was 13.3%,1 which means 21 million Americans were unemployed. Not surprisingly, financial stress is a major concern, with 88% of Americans surveyed by the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) saying that the COVID-19 pandemic is creating stress for their personal financial situation.2 Fifty-four percent were particularly […]