Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki singled out about a dozen Facebook account and demanded that Facebook ban them.
Psaki said they’ve told Facebook they:
“…create a robust enforcement strategy that bridges their properties and provides transparency about the rules. So, about — I think this was a question asked before — there’s about 12 people who are producing 65 percent of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including Facebook — ones that Facebook owns.”
So the White House is blatantly demanding that people be banned from Facebook.
Chilling.
Psaki then instructs to Facebook to do as they say and act saying the tech giant,
“…needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts — posts that will be within their policies for removal often remain up for days. That’s too long. The information spreads too quickly.”
Never forget that Facebook and all the “fact checkers” deemed the lab leak theory as “misinformation” only to recently back away from it.
As Glenn Greenwald points out, this is a troubling road we are on with the White House dictating to Facebook policy.
"The Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as "problematic" so that Facebook can remove them. This is the union of corporate and state power -- one of the classic hallmarks of fascism -- that the people who spent 5 years babbling about fascism support.
If you don't find it deeply disturbing that the White House is "flagging" internet content that they deem "problematic" to their Facebook allies for removal, then you are definitionally an authoritarian. No other information is needed about you to know that.
There is no circumstance -- none -- in which it's acceptable for the White House or any other agency of the government to be providing lists to Facebook of "problematic" content it wants removed, yet's that exactly what Psaki says they're doing…”
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi points out the obvious problems with the White House coordinating with Facebook on what is "misinformation".