via reclaimthenet:
A recently published email has provided more evidence of President Joe Biden’s administration asking tech platforms to censor content that challenges the federal government’s Covid messaging.
The email shows the Biden White House’s Digital Director for the COVID-19 Response Team, Clarke Humphrey, requesting that Twitter remove a tweet from environmental health lawyer and author Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Wanted to flag the below tweet and am wondering if we can get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP,” Humphrey wrote to Twitter in the January 2021 email. “And then if we can keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same ~genre that would be great.”
The tweet that Humphrey was eager to have removed linked to an article about the death of former professional baseball player Hank Aaron 18 days after he received his Covid vaccine. Kennedy Jr. tweeted that Aaron’s “tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of #COVID #vaccines.”
Twitter seemingly rejected the censorship request and the tweet is still available.
The email was published by Missouri Attorney General (AG) Andrew Bailey and is one of many documents that have been released as part of a lawsuit that the Missouri and Louisiana AGs filed against the Biden administration in May. The lawsuit alleges that the Biden admin has illegally violated the First Amendment by colluding with Big Tech on censorship.
Louisiana AG Jeff Landry published another document which he said showed “Facebook telling the White House how they can censor [Robert F. Kennedy Jr].
JIM TREACHER: Biden Tried to Silence Tucker Carlson on Facebook. “Remember, we wouldn’t know any of this stuff if Elon Musk hadn’t dropped $44 billion to buy Twitter. He opened the floodgates, and now all of this sewage is spilling out. How many other social media companies have been censoring conservatives like this? I assume the answer is: All of them.”
Rob Flaherty tells facebook to censor @tuckercarlson pic.twitter.com/mxUT2C8nna
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) January 6, 2023