Sen. Johnson demands Zuckerberg turn over Facebook’s records on censorship of COVID vaccine injuries
Facebook has been accused of censoring posts about injuries from the COVID-19 vaccines, and even allegedly shutting down support groups for people who claimed they were injured by the vaccines.
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson on Tuesday sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, demanding he turn over Facebook's records on its alleged censorship of COVID-19 vaccine injured people.
Facebook has been accused of censoring posts about injuries from the COVID-19 vaccines, and even allegedly shutting down support groups for people who claimed they were injured by the vaccines.
The alleged censorship was recently chronicled in the November 2024 book "Worth a Shot?" which claimed that within five days of Johnson's roundtable on COVID-19 vaccine injuries in 2021, a large support group for injured people on Facebook was unexpectedly closed.
The book also claimed that users who posted about their vaccine injuries were shadow banned on the platform, meaning their posts were not as visible, and warnings would be added to posts on the injury that “urged the viewer to go to Facebook’s Community Guidelines to get accurate information about the COVID vaccine," per Johnson.
“Facebook’s alleged censorship campaign against the vaccine injured, as detailed in 'Worth a Shot?' is the latest evidence of Big Tech’s efforts, in conjunction with the Biden administration, to silence anything critical of the COVID cartel and the vaccines," Johnson wrote in the letter.
Zuckerberg has not commented on the letter, but recently blamed the censorship on the Biden administration for pressuring the platform, while on an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast last month.
The letter asks Zuckerberg to provide all records that show the extent of the Biden administration's pressure campaign by Feb. 18.
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