Opinion: Emails reveal CDC’s role in silencing COVID-19 dissent on social media
Facebook routinely asked the government to vet specific claims, including whether the virus was “man-made” rather than zoonotic in origin.
The platforms may have thought they had little choice but to please the CDC, given the tremendous pressure to stamp out misinformation. This pressure came from no less an authority than President Joe Biden himself, who famously accused social media companies of “killing people” in a July 2021 speech.
“Multiple arms of the administration delivered the jawboning effort together,” Duffield says. “Each one component wouldn’t rise to something legally actionable, but when taken as a whole administration push, it might.”
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