Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg stunned Washington this week by admitting Facebook and other social media platforms caved under pressure from the Biden Administration to censor content it didn’t like. Accordingly, Facebook blocked certain COVID-19 content as well as conservative posts including humor and satire which would have cast Joe Biden and his ‘last person in the room’ helper Kamala Harris in a negative light.
On the Salem Media Group news program, THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Zuckerberg’s admission to the House Judiciary Committee merely “confirmed what we have known for over three years was happening.”
Johnson says Biden campaign operatives in 2020—and Administration officials in 2021—pressured Facebook to censor messages that Biden and Harris didn’t like; this included successful efforts to block 2020 posts relating to the infamous Hunter Biden laptop and topics questioning Covid 19 protocols. “They worked very vigorously with social media platforms…meeting regularly with them and even providing lists of persons and messages they wanted censored and silenced from the Internet. And Facebook did their bidding.”
Although this bombshell confession by Zuckerberg validates GOP charges against social media platforms as the Fall campaign enters its final 60 days, Speaker Johnson contends “Zuckerberg is no hero for admitting what they did. He was complicit in what one federal judge says was the suppression of millions of free speech-protected postings Americans never saw.”
The spineless compliance of Facebook and other social media platforms with Biden/Harris censorship directives clearly had an impact on the 2020 election. “In post-2020 polling,” Johnson notes, “many Democrats said if they had known information which was hidden about Hunter Biden and things the Biden family was involved with through foreign governments, they would not have voted for Joe Biden.”
Johnson added that a 130+ page federal court opinion documented many more abuses and called the Biden/Harris pressure on social media platforms “the most egregious attack on the First Amendment since the Amendment was created.”
So far during 2024, Johnson himself has campaigned in 139 cities in 38 states on behalf of GOP candidates, with the goal of retaining—and expanding—the Republican majority in the U.S. House. One of his key talking points is differentiating the GOP’s pro-life positions with those of the Democratic Party whose documented appetite for baby-killing is so demonic they actually had a mobile clinic performing abortions on the street outside the recent Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Another THIS WEEK ON THE HILL guest—South Carolina U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham—told host Tony Perkins that Republicans need to mobilize against pro-abortion ballot initiatives that will appear on ten state ballots this November. Graham noted that referendums like Amendment 4 in Florida “would greenlight abortion-on-demand right up to the moment of birth. That’s the Kamala Harris position, and Amendment 4 would turn that state from Florida into China.”
Former President Donald J. Trump raised concerns this week when he suggested he might support Amendment 4 in his home state of Florida, because he does not think the state’s 6-week limit on when abortions can be performed is long enough.
That sent pro-life activists like Ally Beth Stuckey directly to social media to demand Trump not waffle on his core support for life…especially since the Florida ballot measure would guarantee abortion until the moment of birth.
“My gosh,” Stuckey posted on X. “Aside from being morally wrong, it’s politically miscalculated. I am fighting hard to get Christian women engaged in and enthusiastic about this election. Abortion is their biggest—though not only—issue. Doing everything I can to warn them against a Kamala presidency. Statements like (Trump’s) make that much, much more difficult.”
For his part, Senator Graham is rock solid in his opposition to making abortion more accessible in America. “For those who live in Florida, or who have friends in Florida, the law there is basically a limitation on abortion after six weeks. That’s when an unborn baby’s beating heart can be heard.” But pro-abortion activists oppose the Heartbeat Bill in Florida and other states which enacted it.
“The availability of abortion on demand right up to the moment of birth is the Kamala Harris position,” Graham says, adding he wants Donald Trump to stand firm against dangerous, politically-motivated efforts in his home state.
Graham concluded: “Here’s what I’d like President Trump to say: the Florida Amendment—Amendment 4—is Kamala Harris’s abortion position. I reject that.”
Tom Tradup is Vice President/News & Talk Programming at Dallas-based Salem Radio Network; he also serves as Executive Producer of THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins distributed on SRN as well as the Salem News Channel.
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