Tomi Lahren says she feels 'vindicated and validated' over Biden White House trying to censor her

"Every American should be enraged about this," Tomi Lahren said.

Published: August 3, 2023 6:28pm

Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren says that she feels "vindicated and validated" to hear that the Biden White House was attempting to silence her voice when it came to the COVID vaccine.

"I feel vindicated and validated," Lahren told the "Just the News, No Noise TV show Wednesday. "I've known that I've been throttled on social media. A lot of weird things happen to me ... I knew that something was going on, because people weren't seeing me as they had before. So I figured there was some kind of shenanigans happening."

In memos obtained by Just the News, the Biden White House inquired in meetings with Facebook executives whether or not the social media platform could tweak its algorithm to showcase stories from mainstream news sources over content posted by "polarizing" conservative journalists and commentators in early 2021.

The memos show there were multiple meetings between White House digital director Rob Flaherty and executives from Facebook, now known as Meta, in spring 2021 as the first questions about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccine began surging on social media.

On April 14, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook whether it could promote The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal over The Daily Wire and Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren, according to Facebook meeting documents obtained by Just the News.

"This is not only un-American and not only a violation of the First Amendment, but every American should be enraged about this," Lahren said.

Lahren added that she never told her audience not to get the COVID vaccine, but did say publicly that she was not getting it. 

"To me, this is a complete infringement," she added. 

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