{"id":1706435,"date":"2022-10-21T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706435"},"modified":"2022-10-21T21:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T01:18:25","slug":"federal-court-grants-depositions-from-fauci-psaki-other-top-biden-officials-over-social-media-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-grants-depositions-from-fauci-psaki-other-top-biden-officials-over-social-media-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Grants Depositions From Fauci, Psaki, Other Top Biden Officials Over Social Media Censorship"},"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%2Ffederal-court-grants-depositions-from-fauci-psaki-other-top-biden-officials-over-social-media-censorship%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=1706435&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--><p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) said Friday afternoon that a federal court granted the state\u2019s request for depositions from top-ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court has granted our request to depose Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, and other Biden Administration officials relating to collusion with social media to suppress free speech,\u201d said Schmitt, who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in the state.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana granted depositions from NIAID Director and White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of White House Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty or former White House Senior COVID-19 Advisory Andrew Slavitt; former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki; FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan; CISA Director Jen Easterly or CISA official Lauren Protentis; Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; CDC Chief of the Digital Media Branch Carol Crawford; and Acting Coordinator of the State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center Daniel Kimmage.<\/p>\n<p>The officials are accused of colluding\u00a0with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on a number of topics, including COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,\u201d\u00a0Schmitt said in a statement. \u201cIt is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We\u2019ll keep pressing for the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doughty previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/court-orders-biden-admin-to-produce-records-over-alleged-censorship-coordination-with-tech-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a> last month that the plaintiffs in the case were \u201centitled to external communications by Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. [Anthony] Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doughty also ordered that the Biden administration must produce records from HHS\u2019 deputy assistant secretary for public engagement, the head of HHS\u2019 digital engagement team, the deputy director of the Office of Communications in HRSA, and HHS\u2019 deputy digital director.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt then tweeted out examples of records that have been disclosed so far.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A senior FB official sent an email to the Surgeon General stating, \u201cI know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.\u201d This email chain follows the SG\u2019s \u201cmisinformation health advisory\u201d in July 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PeqglHalRI\">pic.twitter.com\/PeqglHalRI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEricSchmitt\/status\/1565346281459163137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Further communications show that Facebook is \u201cincreasing the strength of our demotions for COVID and vaccine-related content that third party fact checkers rate as \u2018Partly False\u2019 or \u2018Missing Context.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEricSchmitt\/status\/1565346302967578630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are several instances where Facebook wouldn\u2019t proceed with censoring freedom of speech on their platform until they had input, or a \u201cdebunking\u201d from the CDC. Twitter followed the same course in at least one email. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7rIId8Unsa\">pic.twitter.com\/7rIId8Unsa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEricSchmitt\/status\/1565346329068351490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A White House official was even concerned about parody Fauci accounts and coordinated with Facebook to take them down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e14x6nHOzm\">pic.twitter.com\/e14x6nHOzm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEricSchmitt\/status\/1565346350266343426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Deputy Secretary at Treasury sought to connect with social media platforms and influence operations on social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i6Wy13dNgK\">pic.twitter.com\/i6Wy13dNgK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEricSchmitt\/status\/1565346370608721921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In August,\u00a0House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> (R-CA) called out Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, over its decision to decrease the reach of political content on Facebook, accusing the tech giant of being politically biased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook made sure no one saw the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election,\u201d the House Republican tweeted. \u201cBut now that America has record inflation, rising crime, &#038; a border crisis\u2014all as a result of Dem policies\u2014Facebook is shutting down more \u2018political content\u2019 to hide the truth from Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mccarthy-blasts-decision-decreasing-reach-of-facebook-political-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> these changes in February 2021, shortly after Democrat President Joe Biden was inaugurated, saying that it was hoping to decrease political content in news feeds. These changes included moves to \u201crank political content in people\u2019s feeds using different signals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meta announced in late July, just ahead of the 2022 midterms, that it would be implementing the changes around the world to decrease \u201cpolitical content\u201d in users\u2019 Facebook feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) said Friday afternoon that a federal court granted the state\u2019s request for depositions from top-ranking Biden administration officials. \u201cThe court has granted our request to depose Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, and other Biden Administration officials relating to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1706438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706435","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=1706435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}