Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has been a thorn in the side of many powerful elites.
After being fired from Fox News, Carlson’s new Twitter show has siphoned millions of viewers from the network.
Fr years, he’s regularly criticized the rich and powerful elites in the United States and throughout the world, and Carlson frequently pushes back on mainstream media narratives.
In April of 2021, President Joe Biden and the White House quietly moved to censor Carlson on social media networks — and were just issued a court warning for coordinating with big tech to silence free speech.
According to reports —
On April 14, 2021, Carlson posted a video warning about the possible side effects of vaccines.
That same day, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty emailed Facebook demanding the video of Carlson and then-Fox News host Tomi Lahren be removed.
Although the video didn’t violate Facebook’s COVID-19 policy, the social media giant agreed to “demote” the video and prevented it from going viral.
It suppressed the total number of viewers that would see the video by 50 percent for a week.
After a lawsuit, Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division issued an injunction to the White House over the First Amendment violations.
“Facebook also informed Flaherty that it was working to censor content that does not violate Facebook’s policy in other ways by ‘preventing posts discouraging vaccines from going viral on our platform’ and by using information labels and preventing recommendations for Groups, Pages, and Instagram accounts pushing content discouraging vaccines,” Doughty wrote.
In other words: Censorship.
The Horn editorial team