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The Biden administration took aim at Facebook and Twitter for content that did not align with their approval. However, it has now come to light that their censorship efforts also extended to Amazon.
Additionally, we have identified the individual who spearheaded these efforts within the administration.
Representative Jim Jordan shared a revealing thread on X platform on Monday, unveiling the extensive measures employed by the administration to pressure Amazon into ceasing the sale of books they disapproved of.
Their primary target was literature that criticized the COVID-19 vaccination. Initially hesitant about succumbing to the administration’s strong-arm tactics, Amazon eventually caved in and complied.
THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House”
Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS.
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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
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”? pic.twitter.com/ZsAN9BZAcX
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
Who was responsible for implementing this bullying strategy?
It was none other than Andy Slavitt, Biden’s former White House Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response.
On March 2, 2021, he initiated the action by sending an email demanding a discussion about alleged “disinformation” present on Amazon’s website.
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?” pic.twitter.com/aWSMp3aSOc
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
How did the Biden White House conclude that there was “propaganda and misinformation” in books sold in Amazon’s bookstore?
The White House ran keyword searches for controversial topics, such as “vaccine,” and emailed Amazon when it didn’t like how the search results appeared: pic.twitter.com/FmVYPJQR6n
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
Amazon chose to delay implementing censorship in order to avoid backlash…
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