{"id":8701,"date":"2024-02-07T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/weaponization-subcommittee-reveals-amazon-suppressed-books-criticizing-vaccine-narrative\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:12:44","slug":"weaponization-subcommittee-reveals-amazon-suppressed-books-criticizing-vaccine-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/weaponization-subcommittee-reveals-amazon-suppressed-books-criticizing-vaccine-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponization Subcommittee Reveals Amazon Suppressed Books Criticizing Vaccine Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed that Amazon censored books that expressed skepticism of the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) relayed the findings on X, describing that Amazon faced pressure from the White House to suppress the materials.<\/p>\n<p>On March 2, 2021, senior Biden White House official Andy Slavitt wrote in an email, \u201cWho can we talk to about the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of Amazon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slavitt noted, \u201cIf you search for \u2018vaccines\u2019 under books, I see what comes up. I haven\u2019t looked beyond that but if that\u2019s what\u2019s on the surface, it\u2019s concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did the Biden White House conclude that there was \u201cpropaganda and misinformation\u201d in books sold in Amazon\u2019s bookstore? <\/p>\n<p>The White House ran keyword searches for controversial topics, such as \u201cvaccine,\u201d and emailed Amazon when it didn\u2019t like how the search results appeared: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FmVYPJQR6n\">pic.twitter.com\/FmVYPJQR6n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1754637211469766809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Jordan shared on X, \u201cInitially, Amazon decided to hold off on \u2018doing a manual intervention\u2019 to censor books,\u201d adding, \u201cWhy? Not out of any commitment to free speech, but because doing so would be \u2018too visible\u2019 to the American public and likely to spur criticism from conservative media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An individual from Amazon responded to the email, explaining that it believes \u201cretailers are different than social media communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a retailer, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable,\u201d Amazon added. \u201cAll booksellers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer and we do not take selection decisions lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why was the Biden White House so upset with Amazon?<\/p>\n<p>Because Amazon believed \u201cretailers are different than social media communities\u201d &amp; provided their \u201ccustomers with access to a variety of viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Biden Admin, letting Americans think for themselves was unacceptable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tKjBTesZoU\">pic.twitter.com\/tKjBTesZoU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1754637215223746874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Amazon later met with Biden administration officials, Jordan explained, because they were \u201cfeeling pressure from the White House\u201d to take action on \u201cbooks related to vaccine misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The congressman added that Amazon also considered additional steps to \u201creduce the visibility\u201d of certain titles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And that wasn\u2019t all. Amazon also considered other ways \u201cto reduce the visibility\u201d of certain books that the Biden White House disliked. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9JC1LYb5m\">pic.twitter.com\/q9JC1LYb5m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1754637227324215470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government also <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/new-report-shares-federal-governments-censorship-of-american-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> in November, alongside the House Judiciary Committee, an interim report titled, \u201cThe Weaponization of \u2018Disinformation\u2019 Pseudo-experts and Bureaucrats: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor Americans\u2019 Free Speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report details how the federal government partnered with Stanford University and other groups to create the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to censor speech leading up to the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe First Amendment to the Constitution rightly limits the government\u2019s role in monitoring and censoring Americans\u2019 speech, but these disinformation researchers (often funded, at least in part, by taxpayer dollars) were not strictly bound by these constitutional guardrails,\u201d reads a summary of the report. \u201cWhat the federal government could not do directly, it effectively outsourced to the newly emerging censorship-industrial complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/weaponization-subcommittee-reveals-amazon-suppressed-books-criticizing-vaccine-narrative\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed that Amazon censored books that expressed skepticism of the COVID-19 vaccine. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) relayed the findings on X, describing that Amazon faced pressure from the White House to suppress the materials. 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