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White House worked with YouTube to censor COVID-19 & vaccine 'misinformation': House Judiciary Committee
[Fox] The Biden administration worked together with employees of Google-owned YouTube in 2021 to target alleged "misinformation" relating to the COVID-19 virus and its vaccinations, according to documents obtained by FOX Business. The documents, acquired through a source close to the House Judiciary Committee, reveal a level of correspondence previously unknown to the American public, as President Biden and his aides sought to promote coronavirus vaccinations in efforts to quell the raging pandemic. The campaign was led by former White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, who has since left the administration to help run Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign as a Deputy Campaign Manager. Flaherty emailed Google team members in April 2021 to "connect […] about the work you’re doing to combat vaccine hesitancy, but also crack down on vaccine misinformation," according to the documents. Flaherty continued, asking for trends surrounding vaccine misinformation on the website, while offering government assistance in the form of COVID experts at the White House to partner in product work with YouTube. Google, in an internal email, noted that after a subsequent meeting with Flaherty, the White House staffer "particularly dug in on our decision making for borderline content," – which is content that doesn’t cross Community Guidelines but rather brushes up against it, according to YouTube. A week later, Google acknowledged that they sent the White House the total amount of videos removed for COVID vaccine misinformation, while discussing the government’s desire for even more data. Related: Google: 2023-11-29 An educational institution damaged in Kherson region, positional battles continue in Luhansk, - OVA Google: 2023-11-29 In Avdeevka, the Russian military seized part of the industrial zone – ISW Google: 2023-11-29 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: November 28th 2023 Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-30 |
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