White House denies involvement in Twitter censorship despite ‘direct contact’ on COVID ‘misinformation’
Following the latest revelations from Twitter files, the White House on Friday categorically denied any involvement in Twitter’s content moderation decisions, saying that a person who had contact with former FBI general counsel Jim Baker before leaving the company He said there was no one.
When asked if anyone in the Biden administration was in contact with Twitter’s chief attorney before he was fired, White House Press Secretary Carine Jean-Pierre told reporters, “We weren’t involved.I didn’t,” he said.
“It’s up to private companies to make these kinds of decisions,” Jean-Pierre insisted.“We weren’t involved.I would say we weren’t involved.”
Questions abound about the extent of Twitter’s censorship of conservatives and COVID-19-response dissidents after the release of the so-called ‘Twitter file’ – inside delivered to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and other Weiss reporters Mountains of Documents and Correspondence’ New Outlet, Free Press.
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The first installment of the file, shared by Taibbi on Twitter, detailed the steps Twitter took to curb discussions of the New York Post’s bomb hunter Biden laptop story.Baker, the company’s former deputy general counsel, was “banned” from Twitter by CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday.
On Thursday night, Weiss posted a second reveal, substantiating right-wing Twitter users who have long claimed that the company “shadow bans” their accounts and suppresses objectionable information..Weiss reported that Twitter blacklisted accounts and restricted the visibility of certain tweets and trending her topics in secret without informing users.The company had previously denied such conduct.
So far, no evidence has been submitted to suggest that the government directed Twitter to censor or suppress speech.But the White House has previously admitted it has a cozy relationship with social media companies that could complicate Jean-Pierre’s assertive statements on Friday.
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Last year, former press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House was “regularly in touch with social media platforms” to flag posts that “spread disinformation” and “problematic” about COVID-19.
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“We are in regular contact with our social media platforms and these engagements are typically through senior staff members and members of our COVID-19 team, especially around the pandemic,” Psaki said in 2021.said in July.
“Within Public Health, we flag Facebook posts that spread misinformation,” Psaki added.“We work with doctors and medical professionals to connect them with people who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and are driving trustworthy content.I am helping spread the word.”
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Jay Bhattacharya Professor, Stanford University M.D.was one of many users “blacklisted” for opposing the COVID-19 lockdown.He told Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle” on Thursday that the suppression of his voice, which called into question Dr.Anthony Fauci’s leadership and much of COVID-19 policy, ultimately led to data, children, and America.He said he hurt the people.
“If there had been an open discussion, Laura, the schools would not have closed in the fall of 2020.If there had been an open discussion, the lockdown would have been lifted earlier because of those Because the data and evidence behind it was so bad.”
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He said open, ‘free and fair’ conversation should have been allowed on social media during a pandemic To avoid the “harm” of lockdowns and mandatory vaccination campaigns.
Bhattacharya also said he believed “very strongly” that the government had flagged his post on Twitter for violating the company’s COVID-19 misinformation policy, saying he and other doctors and scientists said it had filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over social media censorship.
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FOX Business’s Lindsay Kornick and Elizabeth Prichett contributed to this report..
