A website page in a computer browser window. File photoWASHINGTON, Sep 1The Joe Biden administration has engaged in regular social media censorship in consultation with online platform executives, according to correspondence and a joint statement by Louisiana and Missouri Attorneys General Jeff Landry and Eric Schmitt. .
«This is war.» The White House statement about Americans caused a scandal in the United StatesAccording to the document, the White House, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Census Bureau, as well as the Electoral Commission, the Department of the Treasury and other US government agencies. At the same time, prosecutors note that the Department of Justice refused to provide full information about the interaction of high-ranking federal officials with social networks, limiting itself to individual communications. «Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a joint petition in federal court demanding that the Justice Department turn over communications between senior Biden administration officials from the White House, State Department, FBI, and others. tour with the main social media», — stated in the document.U.S. predicted disaster over White House decision on Ukraine «The Justice Department has already handed over communications between a number of federal officials and social media, but has declined to release data on top-level government officials' interactions with social media,» prosecutors said in a joint statement. According to one In a published July 2021 correspondence, a Facebook* spokesperson explicitly points to a meeting with White House officials to discuss combating «incorrect information»: «Our teams met today to better understand the list of what the White House expects from us. regarding incorrect information.» Other published messages cite communications regarding the dissemination of information about the coronavirus. American social networks have been repeatedly criticized for censoring and restricting the freedom to disseminate information in the interests of the US authorities. One of the latest examples of such a policy was the recognition of the head of Meta * Mark Zuckerberg, who announced the FBI's requests before the 2020 presidential election to restrain the dissemination on the platforms under his control of the contents of the laptop of Hunter Biden, the son of the current head of the White House Joe Biden, which could indicate involvement Biden Jr. to criminal activities in the field of drug trafficking and prostitution.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist. flagged as false tweets with reliable information about COVID-19
