New Docs Reveal Facebook Trained CDC Bureaucrats How To Censor Americans
By: Tristan Justice
New documents reveal Facebook trained officials in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to censor American speech on “Covid & Vaccine Misinformation.”
According to records made public by the conservative nonprofit America First Legal (AFL), Facebook opened up an “end-to-end workflow” allowing federal bureaucrats to flag posts for censorship.
“The new portal dramatically increased the efficiency of the censorship machine by allowing up to twenty links at a time to be referred for censoring,” AFL reported. “Each censorship request automatically generated a ticket number so that the government could track if Facebook complied with its censorship demands.”
AFL exposed the records that detail the public-private censorship campaign with the litigation it brought against the CDC because of the agency’s First Amendment violations of free speech. According to slides from a May 19, 2021, onboarding presentation by Facebook for employees at the CDC, workers for the tech platform introduced officials to a “Government Reporting System.” In this system, “if the ‘Government requests,’ then ‘Facebook processes.’”
The system apparently worked by allowing CDC employees to sign up and access a portal where online posts could be flagged as misinformation. Only “government-issued or law enforcement email address[es]” were permitted to register. Government employees were then given confirmation notices with reference numbers when requests for suppression were received.
“Despite the many, many, examples of these ‘authorities’ later being proven wrong, all it took was a government determination by the Biden-Harris administration for Facebook to begin censoring the American people’s speech,” AFL reported.