Biden Administration Pressured Amazon to Censor Books
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 12:32 AM
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Some excerpts from the X thread:
"On March 2, 2021, Slavitt fired off an email demanding to know who he and his White House colleagues could talk to at the company about “the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?” "
"How did the Biden White House conclude that there was “propaganda and misinformation” in books sold in Amazon’s bookstore?
The White House ran keyword searches for controversial topics, such as “vaccine,” and emailed Amazon when it didn’t like how the search results appeared"
"After the White House spent a week berating Amazon, what did the online bookstore do?
Starting March 9—the same day as its meeting with the White House—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines were not effective."
"And that wasn’t all. Amazon also considered other ways “to reduce the visibility” of certain books that the Biden White House disliked."
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