Facebook complied with requests from members of President Joe Biden’s White House staff to throttle the reach of a 2021 video by then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to a federal lawsuit, despite Facebook staff assessing that the video did not qualify for removal from the site.
On Tuesday, Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana’s Western District federal court issued an injunction barring various Biden administration officials and government agencies from requesting social media companies to censor or suppress certain content. The injunction comes as attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri are suing the Biden administration, accusing it of government censorship-by-proxy by pressuring social media companies to suppress certain content….