{"id":1635469,"date":"2022-09-07T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635469"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:27:42","slug":"judge-orders-dr-fauci-and-kjp-to-turn-over-emails-sent-to-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-dr-fauci-and-kjp-to-turn-over-emails-sent-to-social-media-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Orders Dr. Fauci and KJP to Turn Over Emails Sent to Social Media Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-orders-dr-fauci-and-kjp-to-turn-over-emails-sent-to-social-media-companies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a>-based federal judge ruled that White House press secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karine-jean-pierre\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> and Dr. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anthony-fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a> will have to turn over emails sent to social media companies on the subject of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/censorship\">censorship<\/a> and misinformation of online content.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/missouri\">Missouri<\/a> Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who are both Republicans, filed a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/mo-la-v-biden-filed-petition.pdf?sfvrsn=3d20bca5_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> in May accusing President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>&#8216;s administration of working in tandem with social media companies to suppress <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/first-amendment\">free speech<\/a>, with specific allegations tied to information regarding elections and COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys general have been deliberating for months with the White House over which documents need to be shown in the lawsuit. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty ruled the Biden administration must hand over Fauci&#8217;s and Jean-Pierre&#8217;s relevant emails within 21 days despite objections from the Justice Department, which cited executive privilege and presidential communications privilege.<\/p>\n<p><b><u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/karine-jean-pierre-election-stolen-ridiculous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY REJECTS COMPARING HER ELECTION SKEPTICISM TO TRUMP&#8217;S<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Court believes Plaintiffs are entitled to external communications by Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms. The White House has waived its claim of privilege in relation to specific documents that it voluntarily revealed to third parties outside the White House,&#8221; Doughty, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/63290154\/72\/missouri-v-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of the lawsuit focuses on how social media companies handled claims about the origins of COVID-19, as well as how Big Tech platforms limited the reach of a <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/new-york-post-takes-victory-lap-following-hunter-biden-vindication\">New York Post <\/a><\/i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/new-york-post-takes-victory-lap-following-hunter-biden-vindication\">article<\/a> in November 2020 about information found on a laptop that once belonged to the president&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In their initial filing, Landry and Schmitt argue that &#8220;having threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials in the Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called &#8216;disinformation,&#8217; &#8216;misinformation,&#8217; and &#8216;malinformation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pair of Republican attorneys general already obtained records earlier this month showing multiple federal agencies&#8217; officials contacted social media companies to develop content moderation strategies. One of the emails <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/free-speech-pitch-thread-docs\/hhs-fb-email-1.pdf?sfvrsn=53bc4454_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> the Department of Health and Human Services and Facebook personnel worked together to take down groups on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt, who is running for Senate, released a statement celebrating Doughty&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people deserve answers on how the federal government has colluded with social media companies to censor free speech on these major platforms,\u201d Schmitt wrote. \u201cWe will continue to fight to uncover more of this vast censorship enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Washington Examiner\u00a0<\/i>contacted the White House, HHS, and Facebook&#8217;s parent company Meta for a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Louisiana-based federal judge ruled that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci will have to turn over emails sent to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1635473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1635473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}