Last July, during a White House press briefing, Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed that President Biden administration officials are “in regular touch” with Big Tech platforms regarding posts about the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. She also said the surgeon general’s office is “flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread.”
Big Tech companies including YouTube, Amazon and and Twitter have been rightly accused by conservatives of censoring speech not aligned with woke left-wing orthodoxy. Recently these Silicon Valley giants have escalated their censoring to any speech that contradicts Biden admininstration talking points on the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. This is what happened to data analyst and digital strategist Justin Hart recently.
Hart had his social media account locked for posting an infographic that illustrated the lack of scientific research behind forcing children to wear masks to prevent the spread of Chinese coronavirus. One problem, most of the studies conducted to date show that children are safer from the virus than vaccinated adults and that the the commons masks that many people wear are not effective against the transmission of the virus
The Liberty Justice Center, a public-interest law firm, filed a suit in California on behalf of Hart against Facebook, Twitter, President Joe Biden and United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy for violating his First Amendment right to free speech. “It’s clear to Americans that what is said at the White House podium isn’t always true, so why do we think it’s acceptable for the government to direct social media companies to censor people on critical issues such as COVID?” Hart asks.