January 27, 2023
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(Washington DC) – judicial oversight Today we announced that we have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). lawsuit Object to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for communication and recording of contacts between the Surgeon General’s Communications Director and social media companies regarding the COVID-19 vaccine (Judical Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(No. 1:23-cv-00113)).
of lawsuit HHS’ failure to adequately respond to the March 3, 2022 FOIA request was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
All records include, but are not limited to, emails, texts, memorandums, and handwritten notes. Alexandria Phillips, Her Director of Communications, refers to or relates to efforts to contact an employee of the Surgeon General’s Office. Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Pinterest on the COVID-19 vaccine.
In 2021, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said:Confronting misinformation about healthIt called for censorship of speech about vaccines and other COVID controversies to “slow the spread of health misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.”
Prioritize misinformation “super-spreaders” and early detection of repeat offenders. We will impose clear consequences on accounts that repeatedly violate our platform policies.
On March 3, 2022, Mercy will become a technology company inside out information For individuals who spread misinformation about COVID-19:
In a formal notice, Murthy asked major technology platforms to submit information about the prevalence and scale of COVID-19 misinformation on their sites from social networks, search engines, crowdsourcing platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems. I requested.
“Biden’s Surgeon General is abusing his office to pressure big tech companies to censor Americans,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. “This lawsuit seeks to clarify the details of the government’s attack on the First Amendment.”
Recent judicial oversight filed a lawsuit Records of communications between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and social media sites regarding foreign influence in elections, and Hunter Biden’s laptop story.
judicial oversight sued For a record of all communications between the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency, a division of DHS, and the Election Integrity Partnership created to flag online election content for censorship and suppression, U.S. Homeland Security Ministry of Security.
September 2022, judicial oversight sued California Secretary of State forcing YouTube to censor judicial surveillance election integrity video.
April 2021, judicial oversight It was published Documents revealing how California authorities pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about the 2020 election.
May 2021, judicial oversight clearly Documents showing Iowa authorities pressured social media companies Twitter and Facebook to censor posts about the 2020 election.
In July 2021, according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) records, Facebook adjusted We work closely with the CDC to control COVID narratives and “misinformation,” managing over $3.5 million in free advertising provided to the CDC by social media companies.
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