{"id":1990263,"date":"2023-08-03T20:13:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T20:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:15:06","slug":"biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly released documents reveal Biden administration&#8217;s pressure on FB to suppress Daily Wire content and promote legacy outlets."},"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\">36<\/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-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs%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=1990263&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--><h2>President Biden&#8217;s Administration Pressured Facebook \u2064to Stifle The Daily Wire&#8217;s Reach<\/h2>\n<p>Shortly after taking \u200doffice in \u2064January 2021, President Joe Biden&#8217;s \u200cadministration exerted pressure on Facebook to limit \u200cthe reach of The Daily Wire and \u200cboost\u2063 the\u2064 visibility of legacy \u200cmedia outlets, as revealed\u200c in \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs\/\" title=\"Newly released documents reveal Biden administration's pressure on FB to suppress Daily Wire content and promote legacy outlets.\">recently released meeting notes \u2062provided<\/a> \u200cto Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The documents, reviewed by The\u2062 Daily Wire, \u200cdemonstrate that Facebook repeatedly assured the White House of\u200c its commitment to re-engineer its platform in order to fulfill the administration&#8217;s directives to suppress content that contradicted its COVID vaccine agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting notes, first reported by Just The News, outline discussions between then-White House \u2063Digital Director Rob Flaherty and Facebook executives in 2021. Flaherty \u2064urged the Big Tech company to moderate \u2062content related\u2064 to\u2064 COVID vaccines and\u2064 prioritize news from The New\u200d York Times and The Wall Street \u2062Journal over The Daily Wire and other &#8220;polarizing&#8221; entities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If \u2063you were to change the \u200balgorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/searching-for-tucker-carlsons-bombshell-j6-videos-youtube-censors-will-direct-you-to-fake-fact-checks-instead\/\" title=\"Searching For Tucker Carlson\u2019s Bombshell J6 Videos? YouTube Censors Will Direct You To Fake Fact Checks Instead\">authoritative news source<\/a>\u200c over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren,\u200b polarizing people. You wouldn&#8217;t have a mechanism to check \u200bthe\u2064 material impact?&#8221; \u200dFlaherty asked Facebook employees during a\u200d conversation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-instagram-war-zelensky-reveals-location-in-selfie-video-declares-he-is-not-hiding\/\" title=\"The Instagram War: Zelensky Reveals Location in Selfie Video, Declares He Is 'Not Hiding'\">influencing public opinion<\/a> on COVID vaccines, according to\u2064 the meeting notes.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the meeting in April \u20642021 \u200dand in \u200dthe subsequent months, The \u2062Daily Wire was the\u2064 leading publisher on Facebook, receiving significantly more clicks and reactions than the NYT, WSJ, and other conservative and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/could-kyle-rittenhouse-sue-comic-bill-burr\/\" title=\"Could Kyle Rittenhouse Sue Comic Bill Burr?\">liberal news sites<\/a>. The meeting notes reveal that the Biden administration expressed concern about &#8220;misinformation&#8221;\u2062 on the platform, which contributed \u2064to vaccine hesitancy among \u200dAmericans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to explain to President, \u2064Ron, people, why there is \u200dmisinfo on \u200bthe internet, bigger problem than FB,&#8221;\u200d Flaherty was quoted as saying. &#8220;Where issues are, what interventions are, how well they are working, for products, want to engage in things that you know to\u2062 be\u2063 effective. I don&#8217;t even care about specific methodology,\u200b you \u2063have better, richer data\u200b than we&#8217;ll \u200dever have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are the things driving hesitancy on your platform? What is\u200d it? How big\u200c is\u2063 the problem? \u200bWhen you are intervening, how are you\u200b measuring success?&#8221; Flaherty inquired, \u200baccording to the meeting notes.<\/p>\n<p>During\u2062 the meeting, Flaherty grew frustrated with Facebook&#8217;s inability to provide \u200bcertain data requested by the White House and urged \u2064the company to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like we&#8217;re running\u2063 around in\u200d circles. Some partners give us lots of information, some partners tell \u200bus to f*** right off. This feels like we&#8217;re chasing our tails. If you don&#8217;t want to give information, just say that,&#8221; \u200bFlaherty \u2064is quoted as saying. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to feel like I&#8217;m going \u2062to a dog and pony show. My \u200ddream for FB to play\u200b ball. It&#8217;s about will we get out of this \u200df***ing mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Biden Administration&#8217;s Collusion with Facebook<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who chairs\u200c the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of\u200c the Federal Government, has\u2063 been releasing information on the extent to which\u200d the Biden administration pressured Facebook to \u2064censor Americans. In his latest revelation, Jordan highlighted the administration&#8217;s\u2063 targeting \u200cof The Daily\u200c Wire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden White House wanted\u200d to control what\u2064 you saw on Facebook,&#8221; \u200dRep. Jordan wrote. &#8220;They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm \u200dso \u2063users saw \u200bmore posts from the New York Times and less from The Daily Wire and Tomi Lahren.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did they do \u2062that?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Because they didn&#8217;t think you were smart enough to decide for yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden\u200d White House wanted to control what you saw on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the\u2064 New York Times \u2064and less from the \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDailyWire<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomiLahren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TomiLahren<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oZUDDv6324\">pic.twitter.com\/oZUDDv6324<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim\u2064 Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1687116327155298304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Daily \u200cWire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro responded \u2062to the communications between the White House\u200b and Facebook, stating, &#8220;The Biden\u200c White House&#8217;s pressure\u200c on Facebook\u2062 to target Daily Wire for traffic reduction is an obvious,\u200d disgusting,\u2064 and predictable First Amendment violation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government action is still government action\u2062 even when the government \u2062is coercing private corporations to engage\u2063 in censorship,&#8221; Shapiro \u2063added. \u200b&#8221;We sued \u200dthe Biden\u2062 administration \u200bto stop the OSHA vaccine \u200dmandate, and we&#8217;re not afraid to\u200d take them\u2063 to court again to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parler-available-again-on-google-play-store-truth-social-continues-to-be-blocked\/\" title=\"Parler Available Again on Google Play Store, Truth Social Continues to Be Blocked\">protect free speech rights<\/a>. We&#8217;re exploring all available\u200c remedies as we speak.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that they were implementing changes to their algorithm to prioritize content from established media sources and reduce the visibility of The Daily Wire. This move by the Biden administration raises concerns about potential censorship and favoritism towards mainstream media, undermining the principles of free speech and fair competition in the digital space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1990264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1990263","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\/1990263","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}