Further repercussions are being felt with the emergence of the Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook/Meta letter of remorse. The letter revealed that former White House Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty was the main person pushing Zuckerberg and other Big Tech platforms like Google to censor speech they disagreed with.
Now Flaherty is Kamala Harris’ deputy campaign manager. What does that say about a potential Harris-Waltz administration and how it will handle free speech?
We already know Answer to this.
FLASHBACK: A current top campaign adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris was instrumental in pushing Facebook to suppress “misinformation” in an effort to control the political narrative on COVID and other issues.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged and expressed regret in a letter Monday that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content, citing actions by Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty as part of that pressure campaign.
Flaherty, who previously served as the White House director of digital strategy, helped lead the campaign to combat alleged “misinformation” related to the COVID-19 virus and vaccines, FOX Business previously reported.
Flaherty sent an email to Google team members in April 2021 to “connect […] about the work you are doing to combat vaccine hesitancy but also to address vaccine misinformation,” the documents say.
The Zuckerberg story was gigantic:
The White House pressured Meta to illegally censor factual information about COVID and Hunter’s laptop.
Even bigger:
The former Director of Digital Strategy was responsible for this @Rob_Flaherty.
He is now Kamala’s deputy campaign manager. pic.twitter.com/hfMUdmStJA
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) 28 August 2024
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is already getting into the swing of things, and if you’re Harris-Walz, JD Vance’s laser focus is the last thing you need. Vance can successfully explain nine different ways how insincere the Harris-Walz campaign is on this issue and that it would be a major blow to Americans’ right to free speech if they got into the White House. One thing is certain: Trump’s campaign rallies and press conferences over the next few weeks are going to be awesome.
This is a huge story. Kamala Harris’ administration asked Facebook to censor information about Donald Trump.
President Trump will fight for your right to speak your mind.
Kamala Harris would rather silence you than convince you.https://t.co/seNxdcZxoe
— JD Vance (@JDVance) 28 August 2024
There’s Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who set up a hotline for COVID snitches, and then there’s Vice President Kamala Harris, the “co-president,” who hired the head of the White House censorship office as her campaign manager. Are they just really bad at this, or do they think they can ride their spirit and joy all the way to the White House? That’s not a good picture.
Flaherty was questioned by the House Committee on Arming the Federal Government just three months ago. Not only could he not recite the tenets of the First Amendment, he suffered from amnesia or was mute in his response to Republican Rep. Kat Cammack (Florida) when she presented him with evidence of Flaherty’s written and oral commitment to censor American free speech and to compel social media companies to comply by any means necessary. Flaherty has also been quite adept at dodging House subpoenas that would have compelled him to testify.
REGARD:
Similar to Vice President Harris and her previous statements as District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, and Senator/2020 Presidential candidate, there are other examples of Flaherty speaking out in videos about his opinions on misinformation, fraudulent news, and the operate of social media.
Flaherty continued to inquire about trends related to vaccine misinformation on the site, while also offering government support in the form of COVID experts at the White House who would collaborate with YouTube on product work.
Google noted in an internal email that after a subsequent meeting with Flaherty, the White House official was “particularly critical of our decision-making regarding borderline content” – according to YouTube, this is content that does not violate community guidelines but only comes closest to them.
A week later, Google confirmed that it had provided the White House with the total number of videos removed due to COVID vaccine misinformation, while also discussing the administration’s desire for even more data.
“Really [Flaherty’s] interested in what we see and what is NOT removed,” reads an internal Google email between employees, apparently referring to videos that had not yet been removed.
According to a 2023 study Article by Fox BusinessIn 2021, Flaherty even called on Facebook to provide government agencies with “special access tools” to target users.
