While the “Twitter Files” exposed to the world the government’s collusion with the social media platform to suppress public posts and censor the voices of anyone who dared to deviate from the government’s approved narrative on any number of issues, journalist David Zweig claims the “far more alarming” revelation is the attempt by the Biden White House to police what is said on “a private speech platform.” According to Zweig, “The Biden White House pressured Meta to moderate ‘vaccine-skeptical’ content on WhatsApp.” “This is fundamentally different from social media,” the writer stated on Twitter, “since WhatsApp is used for private communication.” The Biden White House pressured Meta to moderate “vaccine-skeptical” content on WhatsApp This is fundamentally different from social media, since WhatsApp is used for private communication My report, based on legal documents obtained through discovery https://t.co/yYXZQLCT00 — David Zweig (@davidzweig) March 24, 2023 In his Substack report, which he “based on legal documents obtained through discovery,” Zweig states that “communications between the White House and Meta” began flying “almost immediately after Biden took office.” “Of specific concern was vaccine hesitancy and how Meta would combat this across its multiple platforms, including Facebook and Instagram,” Zweig explains. “But amid the copious correspondence that I reviewed about those platforms, something jumped out at me: repeated queries about another Meta property, WhatsApp, a service designed for private messaging.” Zweig reports: Questioning Meta executives about what actions could be taken on a service that people use specifically for private communications is a striking departure from other efforts. In multiple emails, as early as March 2021, Rob Flaherty, the Biden White House’s Director of Digital Strategy, pressed Meta executives to tell him what interventions the company had taken on WhatsApp. Flaherty wanted to know what they were doing to reduce harm on the messaging app.

Clinton Meme Trial Could Chill Free Speech for All Americans, Attorney Says Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Justice (DOJ) is being accused of using obscure conspiracy laws to target conservatives. A general view of the Department of Justice building in Washington, on April 18, 2019. (Amr Alfiky/Reuters) For example, violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act ordinarily would bring a year in prison. But in the last year, a host of sidewalk counselors at abortion facilities have been charged with both FACE violations and Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights for posting to Facebook about where they would gather. The conspiracy charge adds a potential 10-years in federal prison. Douglass Mackey, 31, is on federal trial this week in the Eastern District of New York for posting a satirical meme under the Twitter handle “Ricky Vaughn” in 2016, advising voters they could vote for Hillary Clinton for president via text message or social media. Twitter profile page of Douglass Mackey (“Ricky Vaughn”). This account was used by Mackey between Nov. 3, 2016, to Nove. 14, 2016, according to the Department of Justices’s court filing. (The Epoch Times/ Screenshot via Internet Archives) The DOJ charged him five years later, in 2021, with Conspiracy Against Rights ( 18 U.S. Code § 241), which carries up to 10-years in prison. “This is a law that was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, designed to protect the rights of newly freed slaves in the post-civil war South to vote,” James Lawrence, attorney for the Douglass Mackey Defense Fund told The Epoch Times. “Understandably, there were threats to the physical safety of those people with respect to the Ku Klux Klan, and that’s why this is a provision from the Ku Klux

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is being accused of using obscure conspiracy laws to target conservatives. For example, violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act ordinarily would bring a year in prison. But in the last year, a host of sidewalk counselors at abortion facilities have been charged with both FACE violations and Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights for posting to Facebook about where they would gather. The conspiracy charge adds a potential 10-years in federal prison. Douglass Mackey, 31, is on federal trial this week in the Eastern District of New York for posting a satirical meme under the Twitter handle “Ricky Vaughn” in 2016, advising voters they could vote for Hillary Clinton for president via text message or social media….