A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a> middle-schooler was kicked out of class on Monday for wearing a patch of the Gadsden flag on his backpack.
Jaiden, a seventh grader at The Vanguard School, a charter school in Colorado Springs, was pulled from class on Monday after school staff noticed the Gadsden patch.
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Meet 12yo Jaiden who was kicked out of class yesterday in Colorado Springs for having a Gadsden flag patch, which the school claims has &quot;origins with slavery.&quot;
The school&#39;s director said via email that the patch was &quot;disruptive to the classroom environment.&quot; 
Receipts in the 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/qQ8jK1zSpR">pic.twitter.com/qQ8jK1zSpR</a>
&mdash; Connor Boyack 📚 (@cboyack) <a href="https://twitter.com/cboyack/status/1696508336345153691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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His mother came to the school with a younger child in tow to discuss the situation.
She was told that her son &#8220;needs to take that patch off&#8221; and that the Gadsden flag is not allowed in class because it has &#8220;origins with slavery&#8221; and the &#8220;slave trade,&#8221; a video of the conversation shows.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t have that in and around other kids,&#8221; a woman who appears to be school staff tells Jaiden&#8217;s mother in the video.
&#8220;It has nothing to do with slavery. That&#8217;s the Revolutionary War patch that was displayed when they were fighting the British,&#8221; the mother responds.
The Gadsden flag, a yellow flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the words &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread On Me,&#8221; a warning to Britain, was flown during the Revolutionary War. The flag was designed in 1775 by U.S. brigadier general Christopher Gadsden, who critics have pointed out was a <a href="https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2949/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slave owner</a>.
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&#8220;She said I have to take it off. I don&#8217;t understand. Why would I have to take off a patriotic symbol? It&#8217;s just weird, it&#8217;s kind of weird. I feel like she&#8217;s infringing on my rights,&#8221; Jaiden said in another video provided by his mother to The Daily Wire.
The school initially flagged Jaiden&#8217;s patch in an email to his mother earlier this month and referred to a district policy banning items that &#8220;refer to drugs, tobacco, alcohol, or weapons,&#8221; according to emails viewed by The Daily Wire.
On Friday, Vanguard School Executive Director Renee Henslee told Jaiden&#8217;s mother in an email that they noticed his &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; patch at the end of the day. She warned that if he returned to school on Monday with the Gadsden patch, he would be sent to the front office until it was removed, emails show.
The school said Jaiden&#8217;s Firearms Policy Coalition Official Member patch, which includes a picture of a semi-automatic rifle, is not allowed at school either. However, his Dogecoin and &#8220;Bear Arms And Bitcoin&#8221; patches are allowed, the school said.
Then on Monday, the school offered its rationale for banning the symbol.
Vanguard School Director of Operations Jeff Yocum emailed Jaiden&#8217;s mother an explanation that cited several news articles about the flag.
Yocum cited a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/wearing-dont-tread-on-me-insignia-could-be-punishable-racial-harassment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which said that while it is &#8220;clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context,&#8221; nevertheless, &#8220;it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages in some contexts.&#8221;
Yocum also said in his email that the Gadsden flag is &#8220;tied to the Confederate flag and other white-supremacy groups, including &#8216;Patriot&#8217; groups,&#8221; <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/01/dont-tread-on-me-flag-widely-flown-by-capitol-mob-has-complex-history.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> an article by an associate professor of graphic design. He also said the Gadsden is &#8220;tied to hate groups&#8221; and cited an article that <a href="https://theconversation.com/symbols-of-white-supremacy-flew-proudly-at-the-capitol-riot-5-essential-reads-153055" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> the flag was flown at the Capitol riot.
Finally, Yocum cited the U.S. Navy&#8217;s 2016 <a href="https://www.military.com/kitup/2016/08/navys-dont-tread-on-me-patch-avoids-race-controversy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> to authorize a slightly different &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread On Me&#8221; patch, but not the Gadsden patch.
&#8220;We truly hope to have Jaiden back at school tomorrow to resume his normal school day, but that will require this patch to be removed from his backpack,&#8221; Yocum wrote in his email to Jaiden&#8217;s mother.
Jaiden appeared to return to school on Tuesday wearing the Gadsden patch, as well as a tricornered hat, according to a social media post from Connor Boyack, president of the Libertas Institute, who first sounded the alarm about the school&#8217;s decision.
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For those asking for an update: 
&#8211; Jaiden decided to go back to school today. With his patch will in place. He said he&#39;d do a sit-in if necessary to protest. 
&#8211; Two law firms have stepped forward to assist as necessary to fight the viewpoint discrimination.
&#8211; Lots of media… <a href="https://t.co/lEVH6XiLDm">pic.twitter.com/lEVH6XiLDm</a>
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Neither the Vanguard School nor the Harrison School District Two responded to a request for comment.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis reacted to the video of the exchange with school staff on social media, saying the Gadsden flag is &#8220;obviously&#8221; a &#8220;proud symbol of the American revolution.&#8221;
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Obviously the Gadsden flag is a proud symbol of the American revolution and a iconic warning to Britain or any government not to violate the liberties of Americans. It appears on popular American medallions and challenge coins through today and Ben Franklin also adopted it to…
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&#8220;It appears on popular American medallions and challenge coins through today and Ben Franklin also adopted it to symbolize the union of the 13 colonies. It’s a great teaching moment for a history lesson!&#8221; Polis posted on X, formerly Twitter.

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A stunning new study from Media Research Center (MRC) shows just how biased Google search results are when it comes to the world of politics.
By typing in just one query, “Presidential campaign websites,” Google returned only Democratic Party candidates — some of which are not even running in 2024. A notable Democrat who does not appear is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., even though the controversial scion of Camelot is second in the Democratic race.
No Republican candidates appeared on the first page of results even though the search was conducted the day before the first GOP debate — a time when Americans are looking to the internet for more clarity on the candidates.
The results of <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/Google-Search-Bias-Presidential-Campaign-Websites-MRCFSAM-1.pdf-1692812372019-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the analysis</a> would almost be funny if they weren’t such a threat to democracy. Not surprisingly, Joe Biden’s campaign pops up first but after that? Marianne Williamson, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Seriously.
The research was done using a clean algorithm that is not impacted by prior searches or cookies, so what we are seeing is Google’s baseline for results, and it clearly shows that while Americans expect Google to act as a neutral resource, it is anything but one.
MRC’s Vice President for Free Speech Dan Schneider put it this way, “Google has erased every threat to Joe Biden. We know that Google pulled out all the stops to put Hillary Clinton in the White House and they have continued to interfere in our elections ever since. Compared to social media platforms, it is harder to document what Google does in secret but we at MRC Free Speech America have caught them red handed again.”
And this isn’t the first time. Back in October of 2020 MRC found Google’s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/midterm-elections-google-manipulates-search-engine-results-against-republicans-media-research-center-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thumb on the scale</a> in search results leading up to the midterm election. And wouldn’t you know, then as now, the stifling of speech went only in one direction, against conservative voices.
According to Schneider, “Google has consistently stood apart from all other search engines, and not in a good way. We have repeatedly seen Google and Big Tech social media platforms treat Republican candidates harshly compared to their Democrat opponents.”
There are really only two things that can be going on here: either these biased results are intentional, which Google denies, or the implicit Left wing bias of the software engineers and others in the company is seeping into the search engine.
According to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Secrets</a>, 88% of political donations from Google employees go to Democrats. So should we really be surprised when the product they produce pushes a liberal agenda?
It should also come as no surprise then that Democrats in Congress have opposed almost any investigation into, or legislation targeting Big Tech political bias, after all, it&#8217;s working to their benefit.
It is also working not just to harm conservatives, but the entire country. Whether in regard to elections, COVID, Critical Race Theory, or the trans issue, perfectly reasonable positions have been throttled by Google.
Over 90% of the world uses Google as its primary search engine, so how can voters be properly informed on the candidates and the issues if the ultimate arbiter of online relevance is stacked against one side?
The time for Congress to act is now, first by continuing to haul the Big Tech bosses to Capitol Hill to explain why this is happening and why it&#8217;s not changing, and then to pass meaningful legislation cracking down on ideological bias in the industry.
Search engine bias is a silent form of censorship, a lie of omission if you will.That makes it no less perilous to our politics, because people don’t know what they don’t know, and Google seems happy to keep its users in ignorant bliss, as long as it helps the Left.
Conservatives can no longer throw up their hands on this issue and pretend it just isn’t happening. Google searches are too entwined in the daily lives of Americans for this rank bias to stand. To some degree, in today’s age, Google search results are reality itself.
For better or worse, Big Tech — and Google in particular — is now the gatekeeper of information. The 1st Amendment can give us all the right to free speech, but what use is that if the tech titans and social media barons manipulate what average Americans actually see?
The bias is real, the bias is proven, and whether by the hand of the industry or the government, the bias has to stop.
David Marcus is a West Virginia based columnist and author of “Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 
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Big tech streaming platform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> removed Blaze Media founder Glenn Beck&#8217;s nationally syndicated American culture and politics program from its iTunes platform on Wednesday for an unknown issue.
Beck, who is one of the first conservatives to venture out and create alternative media from the mainstream, announced in a <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691872607820251600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted on X that he received an email from the Apple Podcasts Team that &#8220;The Glenn Beck Program&#8221; had been removed after they had &#8220;found an issue with [his show] &#8230; which must be resolved before it&#8217;s available on Apple Podcasts.&#8221;
&#8220;I have a feeling these &#8216;issues&#8217; with @Apple and others will keep happening the more we&#8217;re over the target,&#8221; Beck <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691873812571177405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on his X account.
The email reportedly directed Beck to follow a link for additional details, but only repeated that Apple Podcasts removed his program.
&#8220;Well, we got that one, dummy,&#8221; Beck said. &#8220;I mean — I cannot imagine what they are — what they&#8217;re basing this one on. I mean, have we even had strikes? Nothing, right? This is crazy. Crazy.&#8221;
Beck had been preparing for another episode of his program on Wednesday when his team found out they potentially became another example of big tech companies censoring conservative programs and personalities.
&#8220;This is absolutely freedom of speech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing that we have said that would warrant any removal.&#8221;
According to his media company, the podcast host&#8217;s next episode is titled &#8220;Trump vs. Biden: Which is the Crime Family?&#8221; The summary describes Beck&#8217;s deep dive reviewing former President Donald Trump’s fourth indictment and the implications it could have on freedom of speech while comparing it to alleged evidence revealed regarding Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden.
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&#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s what it is &#8230; maybe they&#8217;re just smoked because, you know, I&#8217;m pointing out the real crime family tonight,&#8221; he said.
Although Apple has not issued a formal response, Beck appeared to give the company the benefit of the doubt by calling it a potential &#8220;glitch.&#8221;
&#8220;But it&#8217;s amazing how we have to have a whole bunch of people point out the glitch before the glitch is found, and it&#8217;s put back,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Man, this is — this is huge.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the closer and closer we get to this election, the more and more glitches are going to happen,&#8221; he added.
Blaze Media did not return requests for comment.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1691885877100716065" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on social media, &#8220;Oh my. Even if it is a glitch, these &#8216;glitches&#8217; only seem to go one way.&#8221;
Daily Wire Co-Founder Jeremy Boreing <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1691892131072262552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;This must be a mistake. Glenn is one of the best men in the business and perhaps the greatest living broadcaster. Make this right.&#8221;
“The Glenn Beck Program” podcast remains available on his BlazeTV service, as well as other streaming platforms Spotify, YouTube, and Stitcher.
Six hours after Beck&#8217;s show was removed from the platform, the podcast host said Apple restored over 3000 episodes to iTunes but did not provide &#8220;clear answers&#8221; for the unknown issue.
&#8220;I want to thank everyone (on the left, right and everyone in between) who spoke up today,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691943416542675201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;I wish I had better answers from Apple on what happened, but you gave me hope that the issue of censorship is still bigger than politics.&#8221;

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YouTube on Friday reversed course and halted its limited monetization enforcement of Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro&#8217;s first episode of his new series, &#8220;Facts,&#8221; which takes on the powerful entities trying to censor so-called “misinformation” and dictate what media is “safe” for advertising.
The reversal came after Media Research Center (MRC) Free Speech America <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/luis-cornelio/2023/08/11/youtube-wont-admit-it-demonetized-ben-shapiro-bombshell">pressed</a> YouTube about why monetization of Shapiro’s video was suppressed. MRC said YouTube effectively refused to acknowledge that the platform had limited the video in the first place. Notably, The Daily Wire was in communication with YouTube when the media company twice appealed YouTube’s suppression of the limited monetization and a manual review upheld the suppression, suggesting YouTube’s demonetization was intentional and not in error. 
“In order for a video to monetize on YouTube it must comply with our<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en#zippy="> advertiser-friendly guidelines</a>, which are publicly accessible and apply to all creators,” a YouTube spokesperson told MRC. “Upon review, the video in question is currently monetizing.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ana-kasparian-lauds-shapiros-fairness-after-being-mocked-again-for-speaking-with-him">Shapiro</a> announced on Thursday that YouTube suppressed monetization of the “Facts” video, which was first released on July 29. 
&#8220;Ironically, YouTube has suppressed monetization for Episode 1 of my new YouTube series, Facts, because it &#8216;discusses New World Order, which is a non-monetizable &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221;&#8216; under [YouTube’s] Dangerous Acts in ad-friendly guidelines,'&#8221; Shapiro posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. 
&#8220;Except nothing in the video is a conspiracy theory at all,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Watch for yourself and get the facts about who is controlling ad revenue on YouTube and all of the largest Big Tech platforms&#8211;including this one.&#8221;
In the episode, Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-takes-on-corporations-behind-censorship">explains</a> how the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which <a href="https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2017/01/30/Agency-Trading-Desks-still-dominate-programmatic-but-advertisers-are-demanding-a-new-more-transparent-relationship">represents</a> 90% of “global marketing communications,” and the World Economic Forum are behind a large-scale effort to influence how advertisers spend their money.
“There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see, the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine through methods, both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their decisions can bankrupt companies, silence voices, and fundamentally shift cultural norms.&#8221;
Notably, Shapiro even remarks during the episode that the video could be censored based on the ambiguous and clearly biased framework entities like GARM and NewsGuard operate under.
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Ironically, YouTube has suppressed monetization for Episode 1 of my new YouTube series, Facts, because it “discusses New World Order, which is a non-monetizable ‘conspiracy theory’ under [YouTube’s] Dangerous Acts in ad-friendly guidelines.” 
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Shapiro’s announcement about the suppressed monetization and the subject matter of his “Facts” episode gained much attention online, including from Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, the world’s second richest man. 
“I think the solution here is to price so-called ‘safe’ advertising higher than ‘unsafe,’” Musk responded to Shapiro on Friday. “My companies will happily buy the latter.” 
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I think the solution here is to price so-called “safe” advertising higher than “unsafe”. 
My companies will happily buy the latter.
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Shapiro countered Musk’s take, stating, “‘Safe’ and ‘unsafe’ are dog whistles designed to enable censorship and demonetize ‘wrongthink.’”
“GARM has subjective guidelines for what it considers ‘safe’ for advertising, and its corporate partners seem to be interpreting these convoluted rules to fit a narrative,” he explained. 
The host added a screenshot of GARM’s “Brand Safety Floor,” outlining the content the group deems “not appropriate for any advertising support.”
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2/ GARM has subjective guidelines for what it considers “safe” for advertising, and its corporate partners seem to be interpreting these convoluted rules to fit a narrative. Here&#39;s their “Brand Safety Floor” &#8211; “content not appropriate for any advertising support.” <a href="https://t.co/bfhEvwWSFE">pic.twitter.com/bfhEvwWSFE</a>
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“How are [L&#8217;Oréal Groupe] (Garnier) &amp; Mastercard’s sponsorships of bondage &amp; strippers at this NYC Pride Parade not ‘Adult &amp; Explicit Sexual Content,’ and a ‘Sensitive Social Issue?’ Is this ‘safe?’” Shapiro posed. 
The author noted that GARM member TikTok sponsored the 2022 LA Pride Parade, “where a half naked bondage group walked through &amp; a man in drag performed for children on a giant eggplant.”
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4/ Is this “safe?” GARM member <a href="https://twitter.com/tiktok_us?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TikTok_US</a> sponsored the 2022 LA Pride Parade, where a half naked bondage group walked through &amp; a man in drag performed for children on a giant eggplant 📹 <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHLive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrewHLive</a> <a href="https://t.co/l2XaTq8OeT">pic.twitter.com/l2XaTq8OeT</a>
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“[Meta] thinks this video of [trans activist Dylan] Mulvaney appropriating &amp; insulting womanhood, a ‘Debated Social Issue’ that obviously ‘demeans’ women, is ‘safe,’” Shapiro highlighted. 
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5/ <a href="https://twitter.com/Meta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Meta</a> thinks this video of Mulvaney appropriating &amp; insulting womanhood, a “Debated Social Issue” that obviously “demeans” women, is “safe:” <a href="https://t.co/1ZZ3UJXh1J">pic.twitter.com/1ZZ3UJXh1J</a>
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“But GARM member [Youtube] apparently thinks [Daily Wire host Michael Knowles] discussing loving ways to respond to gender confused young people is so ‘unsafe’ they deleted it from their platform,” he said, captioning the video of Knowles. 
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6/ But GARM member <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> apparently thinks <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MichaelJKnowles</a> discussing loving ways to respond to gender confused young people is so “unsafe” they deleted it from their platform. <a href="https://t.co/6wVuzK00px">pic.twitter.com/6wVuzK00px</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1690132306948739073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro further noted that Daily Wire hosts “can’t even present the case for why much of the trans content is harmful to children or demeaning to women — because that gets forcibly deleted by [YouTube] too. Are these ‘unsafe?’” 
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7/ <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> hosts can’t even present the case for why much of the trans content is harmful to children or demeaning to women — because that gets forcibly deleted by <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> too. Are these “unsafe?” <a href="https://t.co/1prjNjAyzX">pic.twitter.com/1prjNjAyzX</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1690132312699138050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro then posted video of Disney “apparently paying a grown man to dress up as a cartoon female mouse whose primary audience is meant to be little children,” adding, “Is this ‘safe’?” 
“These guidelines aren’t designed to keep brands ‘safe,’ but to advance a specific (and extreme) narrative,” he finished the thread. “The mass implementation of these “brand safety” guidelines demands serious scrutiny.”
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7/ <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> hosts can’t even present the case for why much of the trans content is harmful to children or demeaning to women — because that gets forcibly deleted by <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> too. Are these “unsafe?” <a href="https://t.co/1prjNjAyzX">pic.twitter.com/1prjNjAyzX</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1690132312699138050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro, and The Daily Wire more broadly, are no strangers to censorship &#8212; like most conservative media. In fact, memos obtained this month by the House Judiciary Committee reveal the Biden White House pressured another Big Tech platform, Facebook, to stifle The Daily Wire’s reach in an effort to promote the administration’s policy goals related to the COVID vaccines.
One note, dated April 14, 2021, reveals that the White House met with Facebook executives to pressure the tech giant to change its algorithm to downgrade posts from The Daily Wire and other “polarizing” entities. White House digital director Rob Flaherty asked Facebook to promote what he called “authoritative” media, such as The New York Times, over The Daily Wire. 
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“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT (New York Times), WSJ (Wall Street Journal), any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people. You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” Flaherty said to Facebook executives.
Another note reveals Flaherty becoming frustrated that Facebook couldn’t provide some of the data the White House wanted, so he pushed the platform to “play ball.”
“I feel like we’re running around in circles. Some partners give us lots of information, some partners tell us to f*** right off,&#8221; Flaherty said. &#8220;This feels like we’re chasing our tails. If you don’t want to give information, just say that. I don’t want to feel like I’m going to a dog and pony show. My dream [is] for [Facebook] to play ball. It’s about, will we get out of this f***ing mess.”
Additionally, House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/jim-jordan-outlines-facebooks-cozy-relationship-biden-white-house-how-censored-free-speech">revealed</a> that a Facebook employee in April 2021 circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg that said, &#8220;&#8216;We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House’ to remove posts.&#8221; 
Shapiro last week responded to the release of the memos, which he said expose a clear First Amendment violation.
“We are absolutely pleased to look into the effect on our business of the Biden White House, engaging in an absolute First Amendment violation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s no question this is a First Amendment violation. It is as simple as that. It is a First Amendment violation because the federal government cannot force or even pressure a private company into censoring information &#8212; that is a First Amendment violation, pretty clearly.”
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-takes-on-corporations-behind-censorship">Ben Shapiro Takes On Corporations Behind Censorship</a>

FACTS – Ep 1 Newsguard Final v2 NO TEXTURE

YouTube Reverses Course After Throttling Ben Shapiro’s Video Uncovering Corporations Behind Censorship

Ben Shapiro

COVID-19

Politics

Social Media Censorship

The Daily Wire

YouTube

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) released his third edition of the &#8220;Facebook Files,&#8221; saying the Biden administration pressured the social media giant to stifle speech the White House didn&#8217;t like, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">limiting The Daily Wire’s reach</a> on the platform and boosting the reach of legacy media outlets.
In a tweet thread Thursday, Jordan highlighted newly released documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which he chairs. The documents, which were reviewed by The Daily Wire, show that Facebook repeatedly confirmed to the White House that it was working to re-engineer its platform in order to accomplish the administration’s directives on suppressing content that clashed with its COVID vaccine agenda.
&#8220;Newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden Admin officials reveal more about the lengths the Biden White House wanted to go to control true speech on Facebook,&#8221; Jordan began.
&#8220;In 2021, the White House wanted to control what narratives and true content was posted on Facebook surrounding [COVID-19],&#8221; the congressman said. &#8220;President Biden went so far to say that Facebook was &#8216;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/biden-facebook-covid-19/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing people</a>&#8216; for allowing certain statements to be published on the site.&#8221;
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THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 3.
Newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden Admin officials reveal more about the lengths the Biden White House wanted to go to control true speech on Facebook.
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&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1687116316073930752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Rob Flaherty, President Biden’s then-Director of Digital Strategy, repeatedly put pressure on Facebook to explain its content decisions,&#8221; Jordan said.
“We have to explain to President, Ron, people, why there is misinfo on the internet…&#8221; Flaherty told Facebook employees during one meeting on April 14.
&#8220;For example, Flaherty questioned whether Facebook was doing enough to reduce traffic from sites like the [The New York Post],&#8221; Jordan said. 
“I’m curious – NY Post churning out articles every day&#8230; What is supposed to happen to that from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?” Flaherty asked.  
&#8220;But that wasn’t enough for the Biden White House. Flaherty wanted Facebook to go a step further,&#8221; Jordan added. &#8220;He wanted Facebook to kick people off its site.&#8221;
&#8220;The Biden White House’s effort to censor opposing viewpoints only grew,&#8221; said Jordan. &#8220;So, they upped the pressure. Flaherty demanded that Facebook &#8216;play ball&#8217; and work with the Biden White House on censorship. But that’s not all. The Biden White House wanted to control what you saw on Facebook.&#8221;
They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the New York Times and less from [The Daily Wire] and [Tomi Lahren],&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;Why did they do that? Because they didn’t think you were smart enough to decide for yourself.&#8221;
&#8220;President Biden’s head of strategic communications and public engagement for the [COVID-19] response, Courtney Rowe, mocked Real America’s ability to determine what&#8217;s true and what isn’t,&#8221; Jordan added. &#8220;Facebook knew it had to act. One employee tried to explain to the White House that if the company couldn’t &#8216;remove&#8217; content, it could at least &#8216;contain it.&#8217; But Flaherty continued to press for more content moderation and CONTROL on so-called &#8216;bad&#8217; content.
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But Flaherty continued to press for more content moderation and CONTROL on so-called “bad” content.
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&#8220;And of course, Facebook caved. The company ADMITTED to the White House that it reduced content of certain posts – even if the posts didn’t violate the company’s terms and contained TRUE information,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;Just read this from a Facebook employee.&#8221;
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Just read this from a Facebook employee. <a href="https://t.co/IXMKmzAEvE">pic.twitter.com/IXMKmzAEvE</a>
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&#8220;These newly subpoenaed meeting notes continue to show the Biden White House’s desire to direct and control content on Facebook. More evidence of the censorship-industrial complex. To be continued…&#8221; Jordan concluded.

Jim Jordan

Jim Jordan Releases New ‘Facebook Files,’ Highlights How Biden Admin Sought To Suppress Daily Wire Content

Jim Jordan Releases More 'Facebook Files,' Highlights How Biden Admin Sought To Suppress Daily Wire Content

Biden Admin

Daily Wire

Facebook

Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden’s administration pressured Facebook to stifle The Daily Wire’s reach on the platform and boost the reach of legacy media outlets, according to meeting notes recently turned over to Congress.
The newly released documents, which were reviewed by The Daily Wire, show that Facebook repeatedly confirmed to the White House that it was working to re-engineer its platform in order to accomplish the administration’s directives on suppressing content that clashed with its COVID vaccine agenda.
The meeting notes, first <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/white-house-asked-facebook-censor-daily-wire-tomi-lahren-over-covid-vax?utm_source=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter">reported</a> by Just The News, detail discussions then-White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty had with Facebook executives in 2021 where the Biden staffer pressured the Big Tech company to moderate content related to COVID vaccines in order to enforce the administration’s policy goals. During one meeting on April 14, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook about “chang[ing] the algorithm” to push content from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal over news from The Daily Wire and other “polarizing” entities. 
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people. You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” Flaherty asked Facebook employees in a conversation about changing Americans’ attitudes about COVID vaccines, according to typed notes from the meeting.
At the time of the meeting in April 2021 and in the months following, The Daily Wire was the leading publisher on Facebook, getting far more clicks and reactions than the NYT, WSJ, and every other conservative and liberal news site. The meeting notes show the Biden administration telling Facebook that it was concerned about “misinformation” on the platform that caused many Americans to be “hesitant” about rolling up their sleeves and getting vaccinated against COVID. 
“We have to explain to President, Ron, people, why there is misinfo on the internet, bigger problem than FB,” Flaherty was quoted as saying. “Where issues are, what interventions are, how well they are working, for products, want to engage in things that you know to be effective. I don’t even care about specific methodology, you have better, richer data than we’ll ever have.”
“What are the things driving hesitancy on your platform? What is it? How big is the problem? When you are intervening, how are you measuring success?” Flaherty asked, according to the meeting notes.
At one point in the meeting, Flaherty became frustrated that Facebook could not provide some of the data the White House wanted and pushed the company to “play ball.” 
“I feel like we’re running around in circles. Some partners give us lots of information, some partners tell us to f*** right off. This feels like we’re chasing our tails. If you don’t want to give information, just say that,” Flaherty is quoted as saying. “I don’t want to feel like I’m going to a dog and pony show. My dream for FB to play ball. It’s about will we get out of this f***ing mess.”
The Biden administration’s collusion with Facebook was also detailed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who chairs the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Jordan has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-unleashes-the-facebook-files-social-media-giant-censored-americans-because-of-biden-white-house-pressure">releasing information</a> on the lengths the Biden administration went to pressure Facebook to censor Americans, and in his latest post, the congressman highlighted the administration’s targeting of The Daily Wire. 
“The Biden White House wanted to control what you saw on Facebook,” Rep. Jordan wrote Thursday. “They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the New York Times and less from [The Daily Wire] and [Tomi Lahren].” 
“Why did they do that?” he asked. “Because they didn’t think you were smart enough to decide for yourself.”
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But that’s not all. 
The Biden White House wanted to control what you saw on Facebook.
They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the New York Times and less from the <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>
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro responded to the communications between the White House and Facebook, telling <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/white-house-asked-facebook-censor-daily-wire-tomi-lahren-over-covid-vax?utm_source=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter">Just The News</a>, &#8220;The Biden White House&#8217;s pressure on Facebook to target Daily Wire for traffic reduction is an obvious, disgusting, and predictable First Amendment violation.” 
“Government action is still government action even when the government is cudgeling private corporations to do the dirty work of censorship,” Shapiro added. &#8220;We sued the Biden administration to stop the OSHA vaccine mandate, and we&#8217;re not afraid of taking them to court again to preserve free speech rights. We&#8217;re looking into all available remedies as we speak.”

President Biden

Biden Admin Pressured FB To Suppress Daily Wire Content, Push Users To Legacy Outlets: Newly Released Docs

Joe Biden

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro exposed the powerful entities trying to censor so-called “misinformation” and dictate what media is “safe” for advertising in the first episode of his new YouTube series, “Facts.”
In the episode, released Saturday on YouTube, Shapiro explains how the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which <a href="https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2017/01/30/Agency-Trading-Desks-still-dominate-programmatic-but-advertisers-are-demanding-a-new-more-transparent-relationship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represents</a> 90% of “global marketing communications,” and the World Economic Forum are behind a large-scale effort to influence how advertisers spend their money.
“There&#8217;s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see, the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with. You haven&#8217;t heard of them. You don&#8217;t know their names, but they determine through methods, both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their decisions can bankrupt companies, silence voices, and fundamentally shift cultural norms,” Shapiro explains.
In the video, Shapiro details how the WFA formed the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) in 2019. Soon after, GARM became a “flagship project” of the World Economic Forum. GARM brought together multiple industries for the <a href="https://wfanet.org/leadership/garm/about-garm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purpose</a> of addressing “the challenge of harmful content on digital media platforms and its monetization via advertising.”
Members of GARM include massive corporations like Meta, ABInBev, American Express, Kellog’s, Microsoft, Merck, Snapchat, The Walt Disney Company, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube.
GARM also created the Brand Safety Floor and Suitability Framework in which it defines the brand safety floor as “content not appropriate for any advertising support.”
“Think of brand safety as a dog whistle for censorship,” Shapiro says. “In other words, if you publish content that violates these guidelines, you will be blacklisted from 90% of the advertising revenue in the marketplace.”
One of the organizations that “helps” advertisers meet GARM standards is NewsGuard, which rates American media on supposedly apolitical criteria. According to NewsGuard, it helps <a href="https://www.newsguardtech.com/press/newsguard-offers-targeted-services-free-audits-to-help-brands-meet-new-garm-misinformation-standards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identify</a> so-called “misinformation” that is “inappropriate for advertising support.”
NewsGuard is notorious for ranking Left-wing media companies as consistently more reliable than Right-wing outlets, and for its skepticism of the COVID lab leak theory, now known to be increasingly more credible.
Guidelines for regulation of “misinformation,” like the kind of guidelines pushed by GARM and WFA, have even impacted independent content creators.
“So, for example, my friend Matt Walsh, he was demonetized on YouTube. Why? Well, because he says that men are not women. The same was true on TikTok, another GARM member where Daily Wire hosts are routinely hit with content strikes and various bans for saying things like men are not women,” Shapiro said, contrasting the platform&#8217;s treatment of transgender-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney.
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The partnership has made even some lawmakers concerned. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed officials from GARM and the WFA, saying that the two appeared to be facilitating “collusion among their members in a manner that may violate U.S. antitrust law.”
The end goal of the initiatives, Shapiro explained, is to control information and restrict what people can and cannot be exposed to.
“They want you to see what they want you to see. And they will work to prevent anyone from disseminating information they don&#8217;t pre-approve. They are determining what you see, what you hear, what you watch. And that&#8217;s dangerous,” he said.
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Ben Shapiro Takes On Corporations Behind Censorship

His New YouTube series “Facts” launches July 29

Corporations

House Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) released internal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meta">Meta</a> documents on Thursday that he said were evidence of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house">White House</a> improperly pressuring <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facebook">Facebook</a> and Instagram into censoring posts.
The congressman said in a thread posted to X that he was unveiling &#8220;Part 1&#8221; of &#8220;The Facebook Files&#8221; — which appears to be a nod to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-twitter-files-twitter-and-the-fbi-belly-button">&#8220;Twitter Files&#8221;</a> — obtained by his panel only after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-committee-moves-forward-with-plan-to-hold-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-in-contempt">threatened to move forward</a> with holding Meta CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> in contempt of Congress. Jordan said that plan is being placed on hold unless the Big Tech giant stops cooperating with his investigation.
Jordan&#8217;s thread, which he said involved &#8220;smoking-gun&#8221; documents that &#8220;prove Facebook censored Americans because of Biden White House pressure,&#8221; contained some screenshots of the documents, but not the full correspondence.
&#8220;Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House,&#8221; Jordan <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1684595375875760128">began</a>.
&#8220;During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House — both publicly and privately — to crack down on alleged &#8216;misinformation,'&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: &#8216;We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House&#8217; to remove posts,&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;In another April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, informed his team at Facebook that Andy Slavitt, a Senior Advisor to President Biden, was &#8216;outraged . . . that [Facebook] did not remove&#8217; a particular post,&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;What did the Biden White House want removed? A meme,&#8221; Jordan said, posting a screenshot of a meme concerning COVID vaccines. &#8220;That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts.&#8221;
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What did the Biden White House want removed?
A meme.
That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts. <a href="https://t.co/6BhDxTHsUi">pic.twitter.com/6BhDxTHsUi</a>
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&#8220;When Clegg &#8216;countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US,&#8217; Slavitt disregarded the warning and the First Amendment,&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;What happened next? Facebook panicked. In another April 2021 email, Brian Rice, Facebook’s VP of public policy, raised the concern that Slavitt&#8217;s challenge felt &#8216;very much like a crossroads for us with the [Biden] White House in these early days,'&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;But Facebook wanted to repair its relationship with the White House to avoid adverse action: &#8216;Given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup and take stock of where we are in our relations with the [White House], and our internal methods too,'&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;This wasn’t the first time that the Biden White House was angry that Facebook didn’t censor more,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;According to these documents, the Biden White House demanded to know why Facebook had not censored a video from [journalist Tucker Carlson]. So, Facebook prepped its response.&#8221;
&#8220;To appease the Biden White House, talking points were drafted for Clegg. Facebook was ready to tell the White House that it had demoted a video posted by Tucker Carlson by 50% in response to the White House’s demands, even though the post didn’t violate any policies,&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;Public pressure mounted as well,&#8221; Jordan said, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/white-house-says-facebooks-steps-stop-vaccine-misinformation-are-inadequate-2021-07-16/">linking to a Reuters article</a>. &#8220;In July 2021, President Biden publicly denounced Facebook and other social media platforms, claiming they were &#8216;killing people&#8217; by not censoring alleged &#8216;misinformation.'&#8221;
&#8220;On August 2, 2021, Facebook admitted it was going to change its policies because of pressure from the Biden White House,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;August 2, 2021: &#8216;[Facebook’s] Leadership asked Misinfo Policy . . . to brainstorm some additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration.'&#8221;
&#8220;But it wasn&#8217;t just the White House. Facebook also changed its policies in direct response to pressure from Biden&#8217;s Surgeon General, censoring members of the &#8216;disinformation dozen,'&#8221; Jordan said.
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But it wasn&#39;t just the White House.
Facebook also changed its policies in direct response to pressure from Biden&#39;s Surgeon General, censoring members of the “disinformation dozen.” <a href="https://t.co/FvGuoqUlns">pic.twitter.com/FvGuoqUlns</a>
&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1684595401863614464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;These documents, AND OTHERS that were just produced to the Committee, prove that the Biden Admin abused its powers to coerce Facebook into censoring Americans, preventing free and open discourse on issues of critical public importance,&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;Only after the Committee announced its intention to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt did Facebook produce ANY internal documents to the Committee, including these documents, which PROVE that government pressure was directly responsible for censorship on Facebook,&#8221; Jordan said.
&#8220;Based on Facebook’s newfound commitment to fully cooperate with the Committee’s investigation, the Committee has decided to hold contempt in abeyance. For now. To be clear, contempt is still on the table and WILL be used if Facebook fails to cooperate in FULL,&#8221; Jordan said.
The chairman concluded his thread by stating, &#8220;To be continued…&#8221;
Elon Musk, who just rebranded Twitter to &#8220;X,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684606168113815552">commented</a> on the thread by saying, &#8220;Extremely concerning!&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, seeking comment on the new thread.
Earlier in the week, a spokesperson for Meta <a href="https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1683904883194200067">said the company delivered</a> over 53,000 pages of documents — &#8220;both internal and external&#8221; — and made current and former employees available to talk with the committee. &#8220;Meta will continue to comply, as we have thus far, with good faith requests from the committee,&#8221; the spokesperson added.
Jordan posted &#8220;The Facebook Files&#8221; amid an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ongoing lawsuit</a> brought by GOP state attorneys general over alleged collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment.
Pushing back against the claims, a White House official <a href="https://apnews.com/article/social-media-protected-speech-lawsuit-injunction-148c1cd43f88a0284d5a3c53fd333727">told the Associated Press</a> that the Biden administration &#8220;has promoted responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections.&#8221;

Jim Jordan Unleashes ‘The Facebook Files’: Social Media Giant ‘Censored Americans Because Of Biden White House Pressure’

Jim Jordan Unleashes 'The Facebook Files'

Congress

Instagram

Social Media

Months after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenaing</a> Meta CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> as part of a censorship investigation, a GOP-led House panel announced on Tuesday a plan to move forward with trying to punish the Big Tech executive for allegedly not complying with its demands.
The Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH), said a markup session is <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/markups/markup-report-recommending-us-house-cite-mark-zuckerberg-contempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled</a> for Thursday afternoon during which members will consider a report recommending the full House chamber vote on citing Zuckerberg for contempt of Congress.
&#8220;The Committee’s subpoena to Meta, issued on February 15, 2023, requires, among other things, that Meta produce material concerning its engagement with the Executive Branch and Meta’s decisions and policies regarding content moderation,&#8221; the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/zuckerberg-contempt-report_ans.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel&#8217;s report said</a>. &#8220;Although directly responsive to the Committee’s subpoena, Meta has failed to produce nearly all of the relevant documents internal to the company.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1683904883194200067" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> posted to social media, Meta claimed to have operated in &#8220;good faith&#8221; to comply with &#8220;sweeping requests&#8221; from the committee for months, even before the subpoena was issued in February.
&#8220;To date we have delivered over 53,000 pages of documents &#8212; both internal and external &#8212; and have made nearly a dozen current and former employees available to discuss external and internal matters, including some scheduled this very week,&#8221; Meta added. &#8220;Meta will continue to comply, as we have thus far, with good faith requests from the committee.&#8221;
In addition to Zuckerberg, top executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple were also subpoenaed in February with a deadline set toward the end of March. While Republicans have set their focus on the issue of censorship, Democrats have generally been more concerned about the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981203566/5-takeaways-from-big-techs-misinformation-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spread of false information and extremism</a> on social media platforms.
Twitter, which this week owner Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-announces-twitter-logo-change-plans-to-gradually-remove-all-the-birds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebranded to X</a>, did not appear on the subpoena list. At the time, Jordan <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-02-15-jdj-to-jassy-amazon.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touted how Twitter</a> &#8220;set a benchmark for how transparent Big Tech companies can be about interactions with government over censorship&#8221; following the release of The Twitter Files.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook that recently introduced its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-to-release-new-app-threads-to-compete-with-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter-competitor app</a> called Threads, had as of Tuesday &#8220;produced only documents between Meta and external entities and a small subset of relevant internal documents&#8221; to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel&#8217;s report said.
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The committee &#8220;has a particular need for Meta’s internal documents, which would shed light on how Meta understood, evaluated, and responded to the Executive Branch’s requests or directives to censor content, as well as Meta’s decision-making process to censor viewpoints in the modern town square,&#8221; the panel added.
While alluding to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ongoing lawsuit</a> over alleged collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment, the panel&#8217;s report indicated Congress may develop legislation to enact &#8220;new statutory limits on the Executive Branch’s ability to work with technology companies to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users.&#8221;
Among the recommendations made in the report, beyond holding Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress, is to have the House speaker refer the matter to the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., and &#8220;otherwise take all appropriate action to enforce the subpoena.&#8221;

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House Committee Moves Forward With Plan To Hold Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg In Contempt

A senior <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> official allegedly informed Twitter that the abandoned laptop believed to have belonged to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> was real on the same day the New York Post broke news about the device&#8217;s contents in a story that Twitter went on to censor, according to newly-released testimony.
Laura Dehmlow, the section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), spoke with the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government this week, House Judiciary Republicans announced on Thursday.
Citing her testimony, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-07-20-jdj-to-wray-re-dehmlow-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a new letter</a> that the FITF attended a previously scheduled meeting with Twitter on October 14, 2020 — the morning of which the Post published its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cybersecurity-expert-authenticates-new-york-posts-smoking-gun-hunter-biden-email-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;smoking-gun&#8221; email story</a> — and during that discussion, a Twitter employee asked FITF about the authenticity of the laptop.
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Testimony reveals the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, but when asked by a social media company about the laptop’s authenticity the FBI said “no further comment.” 
The rest is history. <a href="https://t.co/LzjS5cSBS6">pic.twitter.com/LzjS5cSBS6</a>
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&#8220;I remember having a conversation with or being involved in a conversation with Twitter, and I honestly can’t recall if this was repeated to me &#8212; I might have been a few minutes late to the meeting &#8212; or if &#8212; or if I was &#8212; I actually overheard it,&#8221; Dehmlow said, according to an excerpt of her testimony.
&#8220;But it was &#8212; it was relayed to me later that somebody from Twitter &#8212; I don’t recall who. I’m not sure who. Somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And one of the FBI folks who was on the call did confirm that, &#8216;yes, it was,&#8217; before another participant jumped in and said, &#8216;no further comment.'&#8221;
Jordan claimed Dehmlow’s testimony further showed that it was an analyst in the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division embedded in FITF who had begun to explain that the laptop was real before being cut off.
On the instruction of FBI counsel, Dehmlow refused to reveal which FBI official made the decision to stick with &#8220;no comment&#8221; going forward, but she did state that it was not her call, the chairman said. The FITF also had a meeting with Facebook later on October 14, 2020, during which the social media giant was only told &#8220;no comment&#8221; when a similar question was posed about the laptop&#8217;s authenticity, according to Dehmlow’s testimony.
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Another excerpt shows that Dehmlow said she was &#8220;pretty certain&#8221; that then-FITF Section Chief Brad Benavides and individuals on the Russia unit were aware at that time the laptop was real.
In the hours that followed publication, Twitter blocked the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> with details of Hunter Biden&#8217;s shady business dealings and his father&#8217;s possible ties to them from being shared, claiming the story violated its rule against sharing &#8220;hacked&#8221; materials. Facebook, too, took steps to limit the spread of the story, which came just weeks before Hunter&#8217;s father, Joe Biden, was elected President of the United States.
While Democrats in Congress have downplayed the temporary social media clampdown on the story, with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) <a href="https://6abc.com/former-twitter-execs-say-removal-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-a/12790381/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing his GOP colleagues</a> of whipping up a &#8220;faux scandal about this two-day lapse in their ability to spread Hunter Biden propaganda on a private media platform,&#8221; Republicans have raised concerns about there being a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coordinated effort</a> involving Big Tech and government agents to suppress damaging information about the Bidens in the run-up to the 2020 election. In addition, current and former <a href="https://6abc.com/former-twitter-execs-say-removal-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-a/12790381/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/25/mark-zuckerberg-criticizes-twitters-handling-of-the-posts-hunter-biden-laptop-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> executives have conceded that cracking down on the story was a mistake.
As Jordan contended in his letter, the same FBI personnel who were warning social media companies about a potential Russian “hack and leak” operation in the run-up to the 2020 election knew that the laptop was not Russian disinformation, as was suggested in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/active-cia-employee-asked-intel-veteran-if-he-would-sign-hunter-biden-letter-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter from former intelligence officials</a>. He cited <a href="https://waysandmeans.house.gov/smith-testimony-of-irs-employees-reveals-biden-irs-doj-interfered-in-tax-investigation-of-hunter-biden-revealing-preferential-treatment-for-wealthy-and-politically-connected/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent testimony by Internal Revenue Service supervisory agent Gary Shapley</a>, who has emerged as a whistleblower in the Hunter Biden criminal case, asserting that the FBI <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-knew-hunter-biden-laptop-was-not-manipulated-contained-reliable-evidence-in-2019-whistleblower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">verified the authenticity</a> of the laptop in November 2019.
Hunter Biden <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/546148-hunter-biden-doesnt-know-if-delaware-laptop-was-his/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has said in the past</a> that he did not know whether he was the owner of the laptop abandoned at a Delaware repair shop before it was seized by the FBI, and his legal team has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-denver-riggleman-former-gop-congressman-jan-6-select-committee-adviser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly been</a> looking for possible distorted or fabricated data linked to the first son.
Jordan&#8217;s letter was addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray, requesting information and documents from the bureau, including the identities of the officials who dictated how the bureau would respond to inquiries about the laptop, with an August 3 deadline. An FBI spokesperson told The Daily Wire that the bureau received the letter, but had no further comment.

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House Democrats tried and failed to censor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr">Robert Kennedy Jr.</a>, a Democratic Party candidate for president, at a hearing on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/censorship">censorship</a>.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) moved to shift the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-3">Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing</a> on Thursday to executive session &#8220;because Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last week.&#8221;
The congresswoman <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/118-House-Rules-Clerk.pdf">cited a House rule</a> against testimony that may tend to &#8220;defame, degrade, or incriminate&#8221; any person, which would allow the committee an aside to determine whether to allow the testimony at issue during the open hearing. In making her case, Wasserman Schultz cited, &#8220;among many other things,&#8221; comments Kennedy recently made about COVID-19, which the candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-pushes-back-after-saying-covid-ethnically-targeted-to-not-impact-jews-chinese-as-bad-as-whites-blacks">says has been misconstrued</a>.
“COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy claimed, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/">according</a> to The New York Post. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Just Put a Motion Forward to Censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr from Further Testimony
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A vote ensued after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) moved to table the motion, and another Republican, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), made a point of order to ask, &#8220;Is it the custom of this committee to censor viewpoints that we disagree with from witnesses?&#8221;
By a 10-8 vote, the GOP majority&#8217;s motion to table succeeded, allowing the hearing to continue as planned. Massie, when he voted in favor of proceeding, said he was a &#8220;yes, to not censor.&#8221; Some Democrats also tacked on comments to their vote, including Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who said, &#8220;No to the Soviet Politburo,&#8221; and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who said, &#8220;No to hate speech.&#8221;
Kennedy, who has reached up to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/27/robert-kennedy-jr-democratic-primary/">roughly 19% support</a> in 2024 Democratic Party primary polling, <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1682031762912997387">delivered an opening statement</a> in which he insisted that he has &#8220;never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-Semitic.&#8221;
The witness held up a letter <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-asian-democrats-call-to-nix-rfk-jr-from-testifying-to-congress/">signed by 102 Democrats</a>, including Wasserman Schultz and Goldman — who are two Jewish members of Congress — calling on Republicans to disinvite Kennedy from testifying at the hearing on censorship.
&#8220;This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address. This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing,&#8221; he said.
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The hearing, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), was convened to &#8220;examine the federal government&#8217;s role in censoring Americans, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies">Missouri v. Biden case</a>, and Big Tech&#8217;s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech&#8221; according to the Weaponization panel.
The two other witnesses at the hearing were Breitbart News Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris and D. John Sauer, special assistant attorney general at the Louisiana Department of Justice.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a> is getting trashed online for speaking out against banning books, which has become a hot topic ever since it was discovered that sexually explicit material was being stocked in public school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">libraries</a>.
Obama made his opinions known on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> with a letter addressed to “dedicated and hardworking librarians of America.” 
The letter mentioned how writers like Mark Twain and James Baldwin helped shape the former president’s childhood while going on to say &#8220;banned books&#8221; are often authored by or featured &#8220;people of color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ+ community,&#8221; calling the approach “misguided.”
“The impulse seems to be to silence, rather than engage, rebut, learn from or seek to understand views that don’t fit our own,” the letter says. 
“Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone,” the former president tweeted.
The Twitter comments were flooded with mockery of Obama’s stance. Followers shared images from some of the most controversial “banned books,” including images of explicit sexual imagery in those titles.
“Barack, If you’ll sit down and read ‘Gender Queer,’ then defend making it available to kids, I’ll do you the favor of running ads all over the country to let people know. You’ll never do it because you know it would disgust normal people that your party wants kids to read it,” Robby Starbuck, a former GOP candidate for Congress in Tennessee, <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1681013502062804992" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, referencing a book that includes gay sex illustrations.
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Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and… <a href="https://t.co/txhCTfH3Gh">pic.twitter.com/txhCTfH3Gh</a>
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“Were you a big fan of Gender Queer? Did it shape your life? Removing inappropriate content from schools isn&#8217;t banning books,” another reply <a href="https://twitter.com/Keggs719/status/1680948829426708486" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
“How about you encourage [Joe Biden] to do a public reading of these books in front of children; that should be right up his alley,” another account <a href="https://twitter.com/SeibtNaomi/status/1681131996771229696" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. 
Many replies claimed Obama intentionally tried to mislead the public with his statements. 
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“You are so crafty in your language and making the uninformed electorate[believe] the issue is really about banning books,” another account posted. “It&#8217;s about not providing access to pornographic materials to children and forcing children to read books that propagate left-leaning ideologies through mandated sex ed…”
First lady Jill Biden expressed a similar stance to Obama in the past, saying in September that no books should be taken out of school libraries regardless of the content.
“All books should be in the library,” Biden said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-books-should-be-in-the-library-jill-biden-takes-shot-at-parents-concerned-about-inappropriate-books-in-school-libraries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “All books. This is America. We don’t ban books.”

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