The chair of a House Oversight subcommittee has pressured the Biden-Harris administration to submit, and cease and desist any White House communications with social media companies… in regard to their attempts to pressure the social media platforms into censorship of material.
This ultimatum was made after the court upheld the Biden administrations 6-3 over the legal complaint by the Republican attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana, claiming that the White House was cooperating with social media against freedom of speech.
However, in a letter, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that such officials of the Biden administration, including the White House itself, ‘pressure[d]’ Facebook on multiple occasions in 2021 about selective censorship of some humorous or parody materials relating to COVID-19.
Rep. Nancy Mace, D-SC, chair of the House Oversight Committee on cyber security sub-committee, issued a letter writing, “This letter is written today to inquire whether the Administration is involved in any information suppressions as a matter of good governance and more importantly in light of forthcoming national elections. I request and command that you and your associates from now and into the future refrain from such activity and that all employees of the Executive Branch avoid seeking to compel the social media companies in any manner to delete information that is unfavorable to the White House.”
About the Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden laptop thread case, which Instagram CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Twitter Company executives discussed the New York Posts’s article suppression on their platforms in the run up to 2020 elections, that contributed to the change in the voting pattern, she emphasized, was not to be experienced after 4 years of such a nation.
At the very beginning, your Administration however had taken a ‘head on’ approach in telegraphing its desire to edit the content of social networking sites. Then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during a press briefing that the Administration was FB ‘reporting troubling posts for the spread of false information’ only to come back the next day and state that the White House was often in touch with social networking sites to query them about certain information presented on these platforms. Well this has not been the case for them, neither have they apologized for such activities,” she stated in a letter.
The letter further observed that, the White House has not apologized for this activity or indicated that it would cease and desist from engaging in such behavior.
“Following disturbing accounts of Facebook and Google sites met users’ demands for information on July 13, 2024, with regard to the harassed President Trump’s assassination attempt at Butler County Pennsylvania’s, ‘hard’ committee boss James Comer took it upon himself to contact these cited companies on August 14, 2024 just to find out why the two companies restricted the public from any form of information on the president’s assassination attempt,” the letter reads.
