“Are you guys fucking serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today.” This message was sent by Rob Flaherty, who at the time was Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden, to an employee of Facebook after his “request” to remove a post criticizing the Administration’s COVID policies was ignored. Flaherty was not the only Biden official to pressure Facebook and other social media companies to remove posts challenging the official position on COVID and other matters. For example, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggested dealing with COVID-19 misinformation via “appropriate legal and regulatory” measures.
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