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we have example after example of this
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Administration coordinated apparently
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according to a federal court by your
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agency pressuring coercing social media
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companies to engage in censorship is
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that constitutional that is
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unequivocally false is what the emails
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show it is unequivocally false Senator
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you are not pressuring the big tech
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companies to take down accounts you are
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not meeting with them to ask them to
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censor on your behalf that is correct we
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are not here's my point Mr secretary it
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has been established for years in this
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country as you very well know because
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you're a lawyer that the federal
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government may not use private third
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parties to engage in activities that are
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unconstitutional that's exactly what you
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and this Administration are doing you
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are leveraging private companies to
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carry out censorship on your behalf it's
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dystopian but worse than that it's
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unconstitutional it's also false turn
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now to a story breaking overnight
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg claims he was
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press Ed by the White House to censor
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content related to covid-19 during the
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pandemic Aaron kki joins us now with
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details Aaron good morning good morning
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to you Whit for years critics have taken
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aim at Facebook for silencing views that
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challenge the general consensus in the
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medical community especially about the
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origin of covid-19 now Facebook's
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founder surprisingly says they're right
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this morning meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg
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admitting he bowed to pressure from the
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bid Administration to censor content the
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Facebook founder issuing a letter to the
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house Judiciary Committee that said
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senior Administration officials pushed
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the social media platform to censor
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posts about covid-19 and expressed a lot
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of frustration when the company resisted
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Zuckerberg saying I believe the
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government pressure was wrong and I
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regret that we were not more outspoken
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about it adding I feel strongly that we
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should not compromise our content
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standards due to pressure from any
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Administration in either direction and
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we're ready to push back if something
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like this happens again house Judiciary
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Committee chairman Jim Jordan
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celebrating the letter calling it a big
