Tue Jan 10, 2023 – 2:44 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration urged Facebook to censor Fox News headliner Tucker Carlson for disputing the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines, according to an email obtained by Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry.
Landry, who has been working with Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt to investigate online censorship, shared on Twitter an April 14, 2021 email from White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty to Facebook complaining that the social network’s “top post about vaccines today is [T]ucker Carlson saying they don’t work. Yesterday it was Tomi Lehren [sic] saying she won’t take one.”
This, Flaherty said, suggested that Facebook’s “reduction” strategy for so-called “misinformation” was not working. In response, a Facebook official whose name was redacted said that they “saw the same thing” and were “running this down now.”
Rob Flaherty tells facebook to censor @tuckercarlson pic.twitter.com/mxUT2C8nna
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) January 6, 2023
The email may have been referring to a segment from the same day in which Carlson questioned why Americans who received the vaccines, which were promised to protect against both severity and infection of the virus, were still
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