Thread by Rep Jim Jordan – House Judiciary Committee
Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.
“Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”?
Andy Slavitt—the senior Biden White House official who demanded that Facebook censor a meme and true information—was pressuring Amazon at the same time.
Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts
On March 2, 2021, Slavitt fired off an email demanding to know who he and his White House colleagues could talk to at the company about “the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?”
How did the Biden White House conclude that there was “propaganda and misinformation” in books sold in Amazon’s bookstore?
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