THE BIG TECH BATTLE FOR FREE SPEECH IS HEATING UP
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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#SenRonJohnson #JoshHawley #Facebook #BigTechCensorship
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| 0:00.0 | Another dark chapter, really, if you will, in the COVID response over the last years was |
| 0:04.8 | the attempt by government agencies and big tech media as a whole to control the information |
| 0:10.6 | flow. |
| 0:11.6 | We reported, I think two weeks ago now, that the attorneys' generals in Louisiana and |
| 0:16.8 | Missouri brought forth a suit to hoping to expose what in the Biden administration, what |
| 0:22.9 | agencies were colluding if at all with big tech to censor information. |
| 0:28.6 | This came out, they were granted discovery, the court ruled in their favor, they were |
| 0:32.6 | granted discovery, and those emails have been out now, and it shows weekly collusion |
| 0:37.2 | in the case with Facebook and the CDC on vaccine misinformation. |
| 0:41.5 | They're meeting weekly to talk about this. |
| 0:43.2 | They were taking people's accounts at their behest. |
| 0:46.3 | So now this has reached the committees here. |
| 0:48.5 | So we have Senator Josh Howley. |
| 0:50.4 | He is in the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and he brought forth some of the higher |
| 0:55.0 | ups at TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Metta, and he had this to say, take a listen. |
| 1:00.5 | We had conversations with the CDC, with the World Health Organization, and with other |
| 1:05.1 | public health organizations, not just in the U.S., but abroad, in order to understand how |
| 1:11.0 | to make sure that folks weren't getting information that could cause imminent harm. |
| 1:16.6 | Fair enough, so you're saying that this was, in fact, company policy, to have these kinds |
| 1:21.2 | of meetings with HHS, with the CDC, with the White House directly, that you did engage |
| 1:25.7 | in this behavior, and you think that it was entirely fine, is that your testimony? |
| 1:30.1 | Senator, I do believe it's appropriate for companies like ours to be in consultation |
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