YouTube, Facebook and Amazon were frustrated in early 2021 by the Biden administration’s “pressure” to censor and demote content related to COVID-19 vaccines and the origins of the coronavirus.
The platforms ultimately removed and demoted posts and other content and collaborated with the White House on company censorship policy proposals.
“The Biden White House censorship campaign was so intrusive that Big Tech felt the need to run policy proposals by them,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican.
Mr. Jordan chronicled the Biden pressure campaign in a report based on thousands of emails and other documents obtained by the Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the weaponization of government.
The report details the coerced collaboration between social media and the administration soon after President Biden took office.
At the time, top Biden staffers were determined to quash online voices who disagreed with pandemic-related lockdowns and vaccine policies and to remove content that questioned the administration’s insistence that the virus did not come from a lab in Wuhan, China.
White House officials browbeat top social media outlets to play their part.
