Biden bullies who screamed at Meta staff to censor Facebook posts are named and shamed

Two Biden workers who screamed and swore at Meta workers for refusing to censor accurate posts and memes have been named and shame.  

The House Judiciary Committee named former Senior Biden Advisor Andy Slavitt and former White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty as those who demanded the company remove posts which criticized vaccines. 

The report, which was released last year, has been recirculated after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, 40, told Joe Rogan last Friday about the bullying his staff had to endure at the hands of Biden lackeys. 

The meme that outraged Slavitt showed a picture which made use of a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV in the movie 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood'. 

Communications between the two top mandarins and Meta's President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg were shared in the report concerning the post. 

In it, Clegg described his efforts to explain the First Amendment to Slavitt saying the latter was 'outraged - that we did not remove this post.'

Slavitt and the administration were irate by the caption of the post which said: '10 years from now you're going to see an ad that says if you took a Covid vaccine you'd be eligible for a payment.'

Clegg pushed back against their demands, saying: 'I countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US.'

The former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said that Slavitt 'replied that the post was directly comparing Covid vaccines to asbestos poisoning in a way which demonstrably inhibits confidence in Covid vaccines.'

Zuckerberg says his staff were also bullied into removing anything suggesting Covid vaccines could cause injuries, despite that being true.  

In testimony before the Committee, Clegg said that: 'The White House certainly urged us to take down content and pointed out content which they felt should have been removed.'

Clegg also said that the requests from the White House for more to be silenced were 'pretty persistent' and 'at the heart' of most of their interactions. 

The report also highlighted an email exchange between Biden and Kamala bully Rob Flaherty to the team at Facebook over technical issues relating to President Biden's Instagram follower growth.

After a Facebook employee replied to Flaherty that he was unable to explain the issue, they noted that it had been 'resolved and shouldn't happen again'.

Flaherty's vile and abusive language makes for uncomfortable reading. In what was described as a 'tone familiar to Facebook personnel', Flaherty responded: 'Are you guys f****** serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today.'

That email was dated July 15, 2021, and the following day President Biden came out and said Facebook was 'killing people'.

Internal emails between Clegg and Meta Sheryl Sandberg show that they were 'infuriated' over the remarks. 

Clegg said in one: 'The behavior of the White House over the last 24 hours has been highly cynical and dishonest. The Surgeon General has been telling us that we are doing a decent job. Infuriating.'

Sandberg responded: 'We should consider doing things like speaking publicly about what they say. Happy to discuss.'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also chimed in after the comments, saying: 'Can we include that the White House put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory?'

Sandberg responded that she believed the company was being used as a scapegoat to cover up missed vaccination rates and 'a virus they can't get control of.' 

Zuckerberg responded: 'That is certainly true as well', before adding in a follow up that the attack on Meta had been coordinated by the White House. 

Leadership at Facebook also noted the double standard between coverage of statements made by Biden and former President Trump, saying: 'Did Trump say things this irresponsible? 

'If Trump blamed a private company and not himself and his govt, everyone would have gone nuts.'

Flaherty more recently was the Deputy Campaign Manager for Vice President Kamala Harris' failed bid for the White House. 

Public records indicate he resides in Washington DC inside a 4 bedroom townhouse valued at over $1 million. 

Slavitt meanwhile stepped down from his role in helping the White House Covid response in 2021 and is now a group working on public healthcare. 

He lives in Pasadena, California, at a home valued at over $4 million and is also a public speaker, charging between $25,000 and $40,000 per gig. 

The appearance by Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Podcast comes amid moves by Meta to make inroads with the incoming Trump administration. 

Earlier this month they dramatically axed their own team of fact-checkers and have also terminated all DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs.

Speaking on the show about the meme that caused such fury in the White House, he said it was 'sort of like a class action lawsuit type meme' and personally deemed it little more than a harmless political joke. 

After being told to take down the meme, Zuckerberg claimed he and his team responded: 'No we're not we're not going to take down humor.' 

Zuckerberg said the White House 'pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true', and 'said anything that says vaccines have side effects, you need to take down.'

'Basically, it just got to this point where we were like no, we're not going to take down things that are true,' Zuckerberg said. 'That's ridiculous.'

Zuckerberg recently donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund, in a complete reversal on past relations between the two. 

The policy change, and the donation come after Zuckerberg sat down with the President-elect for dinner in Mar-a-Lago in November.