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The Facebook Files, Part 1

Smoking-gun docs from the House Committee on the Weaponization of Government prove Facebook censored Americans *because of* Biden White House pressure.

Aaron Kheriaty, MD
Jul 27, 2023
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Today, Representative Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government released in a Twitter thread the following information obtained by the Committee. This information confirms our case against the federal government in Missouri v. Biden, and represents some of the clearest evidence to date of First Amendment free speech violations by the Administration. Facebook now seems finally willing to fully cooperate with the Committee’s investigation. This represents another major blow to the Censorship Leviathan.


Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.

During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and privately—to crack down on alleged “misinformation”. In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House” to remove posts.

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In another April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, informed his team at Facebook that Andy Slavitt, a Senior Advisor to President Biden, was “outraged . . . that [Facebook] did not remove” a particular post.

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What did the Biden White House want removed? A meme. That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts…

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When Clegg “countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US,” Slavitt disregarded the warning and the First Amendment.

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What happened next? Facebook panicked. In another April 2021 email, Brian Rice, Facebook’s VP of public policy, raised the concern that Slavitt’s challenge felt “very much like a crossroads for us with the [Biden] White House in these early days.”

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But Facebook wanted to repair its relationship with the White House to avoid adverse action: “Given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup and take stock of where we are in our relations with the [White House], and our internal methods too.”

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This wasn’t the first time that the Biden White House was angry that Facebook didn’t censor more. According to these documents, the Biden White House demanded to know why Facebook had not censored a video from Tucker Carlson. So, Facebook prepped its response. To appease the Biden White House, talking points were drafted for Clegg. Facebook was ready to tell the White House that it had demoted a video posted by Tucker Carlson by 50% in response to the White House’s demands, even though the post didn’t violate any policies.

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Public pressure mounted as well. In July 2021, President Biden publicly denounced Facebook and other social media platforms, claiming they were “killing people” by not censoring alleged “misinformation.” On August 2, 2021, Facebook admitted it was going to change its policies because of pressure from the Biden White House. August 2, 2021: “[Facebook’s] Leadership asked Misinfo Policy . . . to brainstorm some additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration.”

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But it wasn’t just the White House. Facebook also changed its policies in direct response to pressure from Biden’s Surgeon General, censoring members of the “disinformation dozen.”

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These documents, AND OTHERS that were just produced to the Committee, prove that the Biden Admin abused its powers to coerce Facebook into censoring Americans, preventing free and open discourse on issues of critical public importance. Only after the Committee announced its intention to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt did Facebook produce ANY internal documents to the Committee, including these documents, which PROVE that government pressure was directly responsible for censorship on Facebook. Based on Facebook’s newfound commitment to fully cooperate with the Committee’s investigation, the Committee has decided to hold contempt in abeyance. For now. To be clear, contempt is still on the table and WILL be used if Facebook fails to cooperate in FULL.

To be continued…


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Diane M. Kane
Jul 27

Wow. Just wow. These Sandberg/Zuckerberg emails are bombshells.

At least when Elon opened up the Twitter Files it was revealed that Jack Dorsey was not a party to the censorship, and in fact his senior team had worked around Dorsey so as not to reveal their machinations to him. Imagine all of this when Zuckerberg had already funded the extra ballot boxes to the tune of hundreds of millions to impact the election of these crooks.

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DrDoug
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Jul 27

Even more good reason to impeach this guy.

This revelation still won't convince the blue pills that there's anything wrong here. I just heard of a poll that says 70% of democrats FAVOR limiting the reach of "disinformation," and of course, they still think that all of this information coming our about the vaccines being harmful is disinformation. The same way they still believe the Russia collusion narrative.

Not to say that I don't deeply admire the work that you are doing and have been doing from the beginning, Aaron! You're a psychiatrist...how do we get to these people???

Impeachment is good theater, do you think that might help?

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