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From Fox News: A current top campaign adviser for VP Kamala Harris was deeply involved in pushing Facebook to suppress “misinformation” in an effort to control the political narrative on COVID and other issues.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday while expressing regret that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content, bringing to the forefront actions taken by Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty as part of that pressure campaign.
Flaherty, who previously served as the White House director of digital strategy, helped lead the campaign to target alleged “misinformation” relating to the COVID-19 virus and its vaccinations, FOX Business previously reported.
Flaherty emailed Google team members in April 2021 to “connect […] about the work you’re doing to combat vaccine hesitancy, but also crack down on vaccine misinformation,” according to the documents.
The report also reveals details about Flaherty’s interactions with YouTube, as he even offered “government assistance in the form of COVID experts at the White House” to work with YouTube to remove videos that might be “misinformation” about Covid.
The report also recalls that Flaherty had asked Facebook t provide government agencies with special access to tools to target users in 2021.
“Since it’s a global pandemic, can we give agencies access to targeting parameters that they normally wouldn’t be able to?” Flaherty reportedly wrote in correspondence with Facebook.
Now, check out this bombshell social media thread about the jaw-dropping lengths the Biden-Harris administration (including Flaherty) went to, in order to suppress what they called “misinformation” and “disinformation”:
Biden/Harris digital director Rob Flaherty says the DNC created a program to detect, track, and censor what it deemed “misinformation” (like Biden’s mental decline). He calls it “critical” and “one of the more important decisions” made by the party in recent years. /2 pic.twitter.com/pbIqUnY8ib
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Despite leading the Biden White House’s efforts to censor “misinformation”, when asked under oath, to define “misinformation”, Flaherty refused. /4 pic.twitter.com/qWJFfwlYZn
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Becca Rinkevich, Biden’s Rapid Response Director (later WH Deputy Director of Digital Strategy), also classified talk of Biden’s mental decline as “disinformation”—”disinformation around his mental acuity”. /6 pic.twitter.com/GZMJclMYNs
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
RINKEVICH: “We targeted folks based on online behavioral cues, building out personas, based on the type of content they were consuming, what they were searching, the kinds of websites they were visiting so that we could target folks in real-time as they were exposed to that… pic.twitter.com/M92g62zQW3
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
If you typed the words “Biden” + “senile” in a search bar, you’d be shown short videos of Biden speaking clearly. Upon hearing this, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes exclaimed, “Wow.” /10 pic.twitter.com/9vNn5RjIb6
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Joining Flaherty & Rinkevich on Zoom, was the DNC Counter-Disinformation Program creator and lead analyst, Tim Durigan. His reports, according to Flaherty, “went to the highest levels of the [Biden] campaign”. /12 pic.twitter.com/GK0slllW8i
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
The Zoom host asks about the “big problem” of “true misinformation”. Durigan says it’s a “huge problem” & wants social media to suppress “true misinformation” to promote “authoritative” news sources like NYT. Big Tech’s done that since ’18, but apparently not enough for Tim. /14 pic.twitter.com/qg1ioQ8VGY
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
But the Biden team didn’t just get the media to forward their deception, they changed real votes. According to Rinkevich, “concern around [Biden’s] mental acuity in particular went down by 8 points over the course of our campaign,” resulting in “about 200K” votes for Biden. /16 pic.twitter.com/Siqtdoo3y4
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Today, Rinkevich runs the Institute of Rebooting Social Media @ Harvard; Durigan leads DNC disinfo analysis; & Flaherty is Deputy Campaign Manager, overseeing digital ads & social for Kamala Harris despite her past criticism of the intrusive data collection he exploits. /18 pic.twitter.com/HofV2AiP2P
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Like Biden’s mental decline, the war on “disinformation” continues!
What “true misinformation” will they go after next?
Please follow me here on X and at https://t.co/yIxqruxkeg!
/19 pic.twitter.com/ragc6RPtuj
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
FLASHBACK: Top Harris campaign aide was key voice in WH push to remove COVID info from tech platforms https://t.co/m6se7shpxp
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 27, 2024
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