A quote in the Wall Street Journal attributable to a vice president of Facebook in charge of content moderation reads as follows: “The [White House] has previously indicated that it thinks humor should be removed . . .”
There’s more to that quote, and the additional context renders it far more nefarious. What needed to be “removed,” according to the White House, were posts on the social-media outlet with jokes “premised on the vaccine having side effects.” This Facebook VP added that they took the Biden administration’s dictate further based on the impression that it “would similarly want to see humor about vaccine hesitancy removed.” It is, however, worth isolating the first part of this sentence so as to distill down to its essence the pettiness of the Biden administration’s authoritarian impulses.
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