‘Egregiously Obvious’ That Biden Admin Violated First Amendment Rights, Tech Policy Expert Says

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, recently tweeted a lengthy thread in hopes of exposing Americans to the so-called Facebook Files. Using all capital letters, Jordan wrote July 27: “THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE.” Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also has tweeted about other parts of the “Facebook Files.” Asked by The Daily Signal what the most shocking discovery is so far, Jake Denton, research associate in The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center, replies that “none of this really came as a surprise, necessarily.” (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.) “It’s egregiously obvious they were violating our First Amendment rights,” Denton says of the Biden administration, adding: There’s this huge interplay collusion between Big Tech and big government, and then a week later, no one’s talking about it. And I think that the shock factor has gone away, because we just keep seeing it happen. If you’re looking for one element of the [document] drops that kind of stand out from all of them, [it] is the correspondence trying to take down a meme, which kind of just shows you the comedic scale that this has reached, where you have government employees whose daily job is to scroll through Facebook [and] Twitter and critique a meme’s role in the information environment.Mark Zuckerberg heads Meta, parent company of Facebook. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October, recently renamed it X. Denton joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the secrets exposed by the “Facebook Files,” why Americans should be concerned, and what the revelations say about the relationship between social media companies and the Biden administration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's reached the scale that I just, I don't think a lot of people really realize that even
0:05.6	the most inconsequential comment you leave under your grandmother's post or the meme that
0:10.6	you send to a friend could be scrutinized by a bureaucrat in Washington and result in
0:17.0	your de-platforming and in many ways the violation of your constitutionally protected rights.
0:28.3	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, August 10th. I'm Samantha Sharis and that was
0:34.1	Jake Denton, Research Associate in the Heritage Foundations Tech Policy Center. Jake is
0:39.4	joining today's show to break down the so-called Facebook files. Why Americans should be concerned
0:45.4	about them and much more? We'll get to my conversation with Jake right after this.
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1:32.0	Foundation and youtube.com slash Daily Signal. Jake Denton is joining today's episode of the Daily
1:43.2	Signal Podcast. Jake is a research associate in the Heritage Foundations Tech Policy Center.
1:48.8	Jake, thanks for joining us. Absolutely, thanks for having me. So by now,
1:52.5	many of our audience members probably are aware of the so-called Twitter files which came to light
1:58.2	last December. More recently though, so-called Facebook files have emerged. On July 27th,
2:05.4	Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
2:11.2	tweeted the Facebook files part one. Smoking gun docs prove Facebook censored Americans because
2:17.6	of Biden White House pressure. Just last week, as we reported on our top news show, Fox News
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