{"id":1801138,"date":"2023-01-10T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801138"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:55:48","slug":"biden-white-house-pressed-facebook-to-censor-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-pressed-facebook-to-censor-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden White House Pressed Facebook to Censor Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-white-house-pressed-facebook-to-censor-tucker-carlson%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=1801138&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d262655e-68f5-46ef-b6f0-9662ba9db19f.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General, said that a top White House employee sent an email to Facebook flagging a Fox News Tucker Carlson posting about the low effectiveness of the COVID-19 virus vaccine. The post was then tried to get censorship from the company.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Flaherty was the White House&#8217;s director, Digital Strategy. In the email, he asked the social media giant if they were actually trying to reduce the reach for those who claim that the COVID-19 vaccine is not working as claimed. He pointed out a Fox News contributor Tomi Lernen&#8217;s previous post about the same subject.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since we&#8217;ve been on the phone \u2014 the top post about vaccines today is [T]ucker Carlson saying they don&#8217;t work. Yesterday was Tomi Lehren saying she won&#8217;t take one,&#8221; Flaherty wrote. &#8220;This is exactly why I want to know what &#8220;Reduce&#8221; actually looks like \u2014 if &#8220;Reduce&#8221; means &#8216;pumping our most vaccine hesitant audience with [T]ucker Carlson saying it doesn&#8217;t work&#8217; then&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s reduction!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks\u2014I saw the same thing when we hung up. Running this down now,&#8221; The Facebook person replied.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rob Flaherty urges Facebook to censor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@tuckercarlson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mxUT2C8nna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/mxUT2C8nna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGJeffLandry\/status\/1611509683818270720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Later, Facebook informed the White House that Tucker Carlson\u2019s video did not qualify for removal; but the video was labeled with a pointer to &#8216;authoritative&#8217; (White House approved) information, the video was not &#8216;recommended&#8217; to others, and it was demoted on Facebook,&#8221; <span>Landry\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGJeffLandry\/status\/1612436016630988801\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Detailed explanation<\/a><\/span><span>. &#8220;The White House then demanded to know why the Tucker Carlson video did not violate Facebook policy and was not removed. A follow-up email by the White House condescendingly reiterates that their demand for answers was not rhetorical.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Landry stated that when Facebook didn&#8217;t respond to emails, the White House incited the riot at Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Not for nothing but the last time we did this dance, it ended in an insurrection,&#8221; The email stated that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Facebook eventually gave in to the White House&#8217;s demands. They deducted 50 percent of their staff and placed them under a 7-day fact check period. However, no fact checking ever took place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General, said that a top White House employee sent an email to Facebook flagging a Fox News Tucker Carlson posting about the low effectiveness of the COVID-19 virus vaccine. The post was then tried to get censorship from the company. Rob Flaherty was the White House&#8217;s director, Digital Strategy. 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