
‘So far over the censorship line’: Disturbing details emerge of WH’s reported attempt to police PRIVATE speech
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.