In 2021, the Biden administration pressured social media firms like Facebook to remove or to shadowban (restrict viewership) posts that communicated ideas that it did not like, even if the ideas were true ones. In the recent Supreme Court decision declaring that plaintiffs didn’t have standing to sue, disturbing facts were brought out.
Here is a quote from the 3 justices who dissented, written by Supreme Court Justice Alito:
The next week, Facebook officers spoke with Slavitt and Flaherty about reports of a rare blood clot caused by the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Id., at 9385. The conversation quickly shifted when the White House noticed that one of the most-viewed vaccine-related posts from the past week was a Tucker Carlson video questioning the efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Id., at 9376, 9388. Facebook informed the White House that the video did not “qualify for removal under our policies” and thus would be demoted instead, ibid., but that answer did not please Flaherty.
“How was this not violative?” he queried, and “[w]hat exactly is the rule for removal vs demoting?” Id., at 9387.
Notice how Rob Flaherty (White House Director of Digital Strategy) is asking why more action wasn’t taken by Facebook against posts that communicated the idea that the COVID shot by J&J was linked to a rare blood clot known as “thrombosis with thrombocytopenia” syndrome, or TTS, for short.
But there had been 13 reports of TTS to VAERS tied to J&J doses given in March 2021:
But by the end of March 2021, only 3.31 million doses had gone out:
The reporting rate of TTS for J&J would then be calculated as ( 13 / 3.31 = ) 3.9 reports of TTS per million doses given. To give perspective on this number, note that in all the years that VAERS has been recording adverse events, and for all the flu shot doses given out in all of those years, there has never been even 1 report of TTS for flu shots:
By April 2021, evidence existed that the link to TTS was legitimate, even though the Biden administration was attempting to invoke censorship of that link. How many died due to the Biden administration’s efforts to suppress truthful information?