Amazon enables Biden’s censorship problem

Published February 10, 2024 6:00am ET



Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Monday posted evidence on X that the Biden White House leaned on Amazon in 2021 to censor books that it considered to be promoting “misinformation” about the COVID-19 vaccines. Andy Slavitt, a senior Biden official, emailed Amazon asking, “Who can we talk to about the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?”

Amazon caved to the pressure and started flagging books that the administration didn’t like with an internal Do Not Promote tag, limiting their reach. Additionally, an Amazon executive reassured the Biden administration that the company had also taken “a number of [other] actions to not show misleading content on vaccinations,” though it’s not yet clear what all of those actions were.

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