Just The News: Biden White House asked Facebook to tweak algorithm to push mainstream over conservative news: memo
New memos obtained by Congress Congress show White House wanted the public to see Wall Street Journal and New York Times stories instead of those from The Daily Wire and Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren.
The Biden White House inquired in meetings with Facebook executives asking whether Facebook could tweak its algorithm to showcase stories from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal over content posted by “polarizing” conservative journalists and commentators in early 2021, according to meeting notes the social media firm turned over to Congress that are alarming some constitutional lawyers.
The alleged focus of the meetings was to assist the administration while it struggled to combat COVID vaccine hesitancy.
The memos, reviewed by Just the News, chronicle a series of meetings between White House digital director Rob Flaherty and executives from Facebook, now known as Meta, in spring 2021 as the first questions about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccine began surging on social media.
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Update: Biden Administration Ordered Facebook to Change Algorithms to Suppress Conservatives (American Conservative).
WNU Editor: The only thing that I can add to the above report is that War News Updates, after being on Facebook for years and thousands of posts, was banned by Facebook in 2022.