by Sharon Rondeau
(Feb. 18, 2022) — Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the organization icandecide.org, as released on Twitter by an attorney representing it, Aaron Siri, demonstrate that U.S. government agencies dealing with the COVID-19 “pandemic” communicated talking points to Facebook aimed at convincing Americans to wear masks, forego in-person gatherings, and to “show how fast it’s [the virus] is spreading.”
The emails, released Monday in response to an August 2021 request made through Siri’s office, were generated primarily in November 2020.
However, one was dated June 15, 2021 and was sent from a Facebook representative to an HHS official and another with an “EOP/OMB” email address.
“EOP” stands for “Executive Office of the President,” while “OMB” is “Office of Management and Budget.”
Blacked-out sections of the emails, which in the five-page release are limited to portions of email addresses, indicate the exemption by which the agencies withheld the information.
In the email which appears first, Payton Iheme of Facebook “U.S. Public Policy” was confirming with Irum F. Zaidi of the “EOP/OVP” the details of an upcoming phone or video conference to promote the government’s objective “to highlight actions people can be empowered with” (p. 3).
In a November 23, 2020 reply email, Iheme divulges that Facebook has or had a “VP of Health” who wished to attend the conference “if Dr. Birx was joining.”
Birx, who as White House coronavirus task force coordinator worked closely with NAIAD Director and current White House Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci during the Trump administration to counter the virus, announced her retirement just before Christmas 2020 after it came to light that after advising Americans to limit family holiday gatherings, she “had travelled from Washington to one of her other properties, on Fenwick Island in Delaware, where she was joined by three generations of her family from two households.”
On Monday WTNH-New Haven (CT) via the Associated Press reported that Birx has written a memoir of the coronavirus pandemic to be released on April 26.
The fifth and final page of the FOIA release from last June shows Iheme informing four government officials by first name of “a new initiative” showing that Facebook has partnered with “Big Pharma” companies, the World Health Organization (WHO), public health agencies and others “to build confidence in and drive uptake of vaccines.”
It is well-documented that Facebook labels dissenting views on vaccines, particularly COVID-19 injections, as well as vaccine injury accounts, as inaccurate, referring readers to Facebook’s “COVID-19 Information Center for vaccine resources.”
As might be expected, the Information Center promotes COVID-19 vaccines for all ages for which the CDC has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), including those who have recovered from the virus, and displays, if the reader scrolls down, the latest statistics from his or her region.
“ICAN,” as it calls itself, questions the safety of all vaccines and has obtained responses to FOIA requests involving COVID-19 and MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccines as well as emails between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and vaccine manufacturers.
ICAN reports the history of the FOIA request here.
A variety of governments use a variety of social-media and mass-communications sites to promote a variety of governmental policies. Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug initiative, for example.
This is hardly groundbreaking.
If however, the Government uses social media to CENSOR information it knows to be true, such as the fact that the “Vaccines” are not actually vaccines or that these experimental solutions HAVE caused serious adverse effects, then the Government IS guilty of violating the constitutional rights of each person social media censors. A longstanding legal maxim is “Qui facit per alium facit per se” or “He who acts through an agent does the act himself”. IF the US Government is in league with social media for the purpose of stifling the first amendment rights of US Citizens then they cannot HIDE behind a claim such as “Facebook is a private company” or other spurious defense to make themselves immune from charges of violating the rights of Americans.
Well said Robert. Indeed, Government should be honest, truthful, and
do no harm. Sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant. Lots of cleaning left to do.
Right now, government is dishonest, mendacious and VERY harmful to “We the People”. The purpose of government is to secure the blessings of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The Obama-Biden Cabal’s intention is to “fundamentally change” that. We have traitors in our government. Our Republic is in grave danger. Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Harris, the Clintons and many others belong in prison at Ft. Leavenworth and/or Guantanamo Bay. I’m quite disgusted that it has gotten this far. I started Society for the Preservation of Democracy and Human Rights (Now, Society for the Preservation of our American Republic) on the bi-centennial anniversary of the Constitution, in 1987 based on my perception that something anti-American was happening. I saw this coming (35) years ago. I’m not giving up any ground. I will die for this country if it comes to that. Biden and his accomplices are giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies.