New emails revealed through Missouri v. Biden show the administration urged Facebook to censor private communications on its WhatsApp messaging service.
The past several months have revealed a huge amount of government pressure on social media platforms to censor public content. New emails revealed throughshow the administration went further, urging Facebook to censor private communications on its WhatsApp messaging service too.
amid scare stories that the platform was being used by supporters of populist candidate Jair Bolsonaro to spread “misinformation.”A demonstrator holds a sign reading “End All Mandates” as people gather for a rally with truckers at the start of “The Peoples Convoy” protest against Covid-19 vaccine and mask mandates in Adelanto, California, on February 23, 2022. a multi-state lawsuit accusing the Biden Administration of colluding with tech companies to suppress First Amendment rights in the U.S.
The suppression tools at their disposal—specifically, labeling and limiting message forwards—the Meta employee explained, were blunt “content-agnostic” interventions. The premise was that messages that didn’t originate from a close contact were more likely to contain misinformation. So by preventing virality in general, the company was automatically helping to prevent misinformation.
In one of the follow up exchanges, Flaherty seemed dissatisfied with the response, and again pressed Meta to take action on vaccine hesitancy. “I care mostly about what actions and changes you’re making to ensure you’re not making our country’s vaccine hesitancy problem worse,” he wrote. “I still don’t have a good, empirical answer on how effective you’ve been at reducing the spread of vaccine-skeptical content and misinformation to vaccine fence sitters.
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