This article was published on The Defender—Children’s Health Defense News & Views Website on August 22, 2024

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday (Aug. 26) that senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to censor content related to COVID-19 during the pandemic. Zuckerberg said he regretted not being more outspoken about the issue, and that he planned to push back if something similar happened in the future.

Zuckerberg made the comments in a letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan. The committee shared the letter on X, commenting that Zuckerberg “just admitted” the “Biden-Harris administration ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Americans.”

Jordan, in April, sent Zuckerberg a letter reminding him of a subpoena he had received for documents—including Meta’s communications with the executive branch — as part of the Judiciary Committee’s investigation into how and to what extent the Biden administration “has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech.”

In his letter, Zuckerberg said:

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. …

“… I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction—and we’re ready to push back if something happens again.”

The White House responded in a statement that the administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health.

“Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present,” it said.

President Joe Biden said publicly in July 2021 that social media platforms were “killing people” with misinformation surrounding the pandemic. At the time, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned that health misinformation is “a serious threat to public health,” and the administration held meetings with the social media giant.

Zuckerberg didn’t provide specific examples of censorship that Facebook engaged in behind the scenes.

However, extensive documentation of Facebook censoring content at the government’s request was gathered through discovery by plaintiffs in the Murthy v. Missouri (initially Missouri v. Biden) and Kennedy v. Biden lawsuits. Both lawsuits allege the Biden administration coerced and encouraged social media companies to censor free speech.

Jordan’s congressional investigation, the “Facebook Files” series he subsequently released and other investigations also cite examples of government officials or agencies pressuring Facebook to flag or remove content.

That documentation has long made public the “relentless, coercive pressure” the White House exerted on media companies to censor COVID-19-related information that contradicted the government and mainstream media narrative about COVID-19 origins, lockdowns or vaccines.

Many X commenters concerned with government censorship celebrated Zuckerberg’s letter. Those long involved in making this well-known censorship public and holding the administration accountable had more tempered responses.

Jenin Younes, a civil rights attorney representing some of the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri posted on X:

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Murthy v. Missouri plaintiffs didn’t have standing to sue because they couldn’t demonstrate the administration explicitly ordered their speech censored.

Younes noted that Zuckerberg’s statement hedged somewhat, in saying that the company’s choices were ultimately its own, even though he admitted it wouldn’t have made the choices it did without government pressure.

“It’s important to understand that if courts find Meta effectively acted as an arm of government, the company can be sued as a state actor and theoretically be responsible for monetary damages based on harm to those censored,” she said.

Commenter Mike Benz expressed frustration that Zuckerberg waited until after the SCOTUS decision to make his admission.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lead plaintiff along with Children’s Health Defense (CHD) in Kennedy v. Biden, said on X: (next column)

The White House targeted Kennedy directly numerous times seeking to have his speech eliminated from social media.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate—a nonprofit that identifies “misinformation” and works with the Biden administration—named Kennedy part of the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” which it said is “responsible for the bulk of anti-vaxx content shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter.” The nonprofit concluded social media “platforms must act” against these individuals.

Kennedy also is chairman on leave from CHD, which the Center for Countering Digital Hate called a tool for spreading “anti-vaccine messages.”

CHD is still banned from Instagram and Facebook—both owned by Meta—and Facebook admitted it suppressed CHD’s content, including posts that did not violate the social media platform’s policies.

Last week, a Louisiana district court ruled that both Kennedy and CHD have standing to sue the Biden administration for colluding with tech giants to censor their social media posts. An injunction prohibiting the administration from exerting such pressure is pending in an appeals court.

Facebook also censored individuals and communities sharing information about COVID-19 vaccine injuries and posts about “health freedom.”

Every major mainstream media organization reported on Zuckerberg’s letter yesterday.

Journalist Matt Taibbi noted these were the same organizations that “spent years scoffing at the idea that Facebook/Meta ‘censored’ figures like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”

Taibbi compiled a list of key offenders:

“There’s Poynter/Politifact, NPR (which rolled eyes at ‘the idea that fact-checking … amounts to censorship’), Politico (‘there really is no government censorship … the government neither really coerces nor threatens private citizens or businesses’), BBC (censorship claims are among ‘examples of Mr Kennedy spreading conspiracy theories’), the New Yorker, and countless others.”

Zuckerberg also suggested that, acting on information from the FBI, Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story. He also said regretted that his investment, through his philanthropy the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative “benefitted one party over the other,” and he planned to stop such investment.

The admission comes as governments globally move to double down on censorship of social media and other communication platforms. This past weekend, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France for alleged crimes that users committed using the platform.

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This article was published on The Defender—Children’s Health Defense News & ViewsWebsite on August 6, 2024

Big Pharma and its key investors are rolling out a new strategy — “the full takeover of the public sector, specifically the World Health Organization (WHO), and the regulatory system that now holds the entire market hostage”—according to a new investigative report by Unlimited Hangout’s Max Jones.

What’s behind the new strategy? The pharmaceutical industry is facing a “patent cliff” by 2030, as many of its blockbuster drugs are set to lose their patent protection, placing $180 billion in sales at risk and threatening to topple the industry.

According to Jones, for years, when patents expired on profitable drugs, pharmaceutical giants deployed a “mergers and acquisitions” strategy, buying up smaller drug companies to add to their product portfolios.

As a result, the industry is now dominated by a handful of companies, conventional chemical drugs exist for most health issues, and the regulatory process for new ones has become onerous.

Big Pharma has now pivoted to acquiring biotech and biologic companies, whose products are “more complex, unpredictable and difficult and expensive to make,” than chemical-based medicine, Jones wrote.

Conventional drugs are chemically synthesized and have a known structure according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Biologics come from living humans, animal or microorganism cells, and are technologically altered to target particular proteins or cells in the immune system. The FDA calls biologics “complex mixtures that are not easily identified or characterized.”

As a drug class, biologics offer an appealing solution to the patent cliff problem, because they can’t be easily replicated like generic versions of conventional drugs.

Instead, producers make “biosimilars,” which unlike genetics can’t simply be interchanged with the original drug during a course of treatment without serious safety risks, according to Jones. And while generics are cheap, biosimilars are still expensive to produce. There also are regulatory hurdles to getting biosimilars to market.

However, Jones wrote, the serious safety issues associated with biologics—the high risk of serious adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, for example—make it difficult for drugmakers to find commercial success in a conventional regulatory environment.

“Luckily for Big Pharma,” Jones wrote, the WHO and its private backers “are pursuing an unprecedented legal process that would cement loopholes that could solve these significant market challenges of at least some biotechnologies.”

Such loopholes made Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccines—the paradigmatic example of this new strategy—Big Pharma’s highest-selling annual market success ever.

Distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to approximately 70% of people globally was possible only because of the “fast-tracked, deregulated development and mandated consumption of the experimental drugs,” Jones wrote.

The industry hopes to replicate that model with other drugs. And it has already begun—last month the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, gave Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine.

Stakeholders behind the WHO have turned it into an arm of Big Pharma

According to Jones, the process of rapidly developed and mandated experimental drugs was first adopted by the U.S. military for bioweapons threats. Now, it is being internationally legitimized by the WHO through the agency’s revisions to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and its continued attempt to push its pandemic treaty.

The amendments were watered down and the treaty was partially thwarted at the last meeting of the World Health Assembly, which ended on June 1. However, the powers added to the amendments and the language in the treaty WHO and its backers are still hoping to advance next year show the type of biotech pandemic market Big Pharma has in the works.

According to Jones, this market:

“Will not be one that depends on the free will of consumers to opt in and out of products—but instead relies on tactics of forced consumption and manipulation of regulatory paradigms.

“At the forefront of this push are the WHO’s public-private-partners/private stakeholders, who directly shape and benefit from this policy. Their influence has, in effect, turned the WHO into an arm of Big Pharma, one so powerful that it already demonstrated its ability to morph the entire international regulatory process for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

These stakeholders can wield this power in part because the WHO receives 80% of its funding from private stakeholders.

Those stakeholders include private-sector giants like Bill Gates, his public-private partnership organizations like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and public-sector bureaucrats, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Rick Bright, Ph.D., of BARDA and the Rockefeller Foundation, who have been working for years to create a new system that would speed up vaccine production.

During the COVID-19 pandemic period, even states that lacked legal structures to provide emergency authorization for new drugs created them, using the WHO’s Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) as justification, and aided by the WHO’s COVAX vaccine distribution system. COVAX was co-led by the WHO, Gavi, CEPI and Unicef, which are all backed by Gates.

The goal now, Jones wrote, is to institutionalize the procedures that were put in place globally for COVID-19 to pave the way for a new pandemic market.

The One Health agenda, which requires “full-scale surveillance of the human-animal environment,” both before and during pandemics, is central to this plan, he wrote.

The four pillars of the emerging pandemic market

There are four pillars to the plan for securing this market. The pillars are embodied in the WHO’s recently passed IHR amendments and the proposed pandemic treaty.

1. Biosurveillance of “pathogens with pandemic potential”: The WHO is calling on member states to create infrastructure to conduct biosurveillance on entire populations.

WHO private stakeholders, like the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have been funding such initiatives for years and continue to be at the forefront of similar initiatives today, Jones wrote.

2. Rapid sharing of data and research: Under the IHR amendments, the WHO’s director-general must provide support for member states’ research and development. In the pending treaty, that would include helping them rapidly share data during a pandemic.

Such sharing should help coordinate global pandemic responses and also “pandemic prevention.” That means building a globally coordinated effort to research and share data on diseases that don’t currently pose a public health threat but are allegedly “likely to cause epidemics in the future.”

The WHO’s announcement last week that it is facilitating data-sharing for a new mRNA bird flu vaccine from Argentina is one example.

Experts have raised concerns that incentivizing such “preventive R&D” could incentivize risky gain-of-function research, Jones wrote.

Jones also noted that it is “highly likely” that the same global organizations that partner with the WHO and are funded by its largest private donors will be the ones doing this research and development on vaccines for “future pathogens with pandemic potential” — and also the ones profiting from it.

3. New regulatory pathways: The WHO is developing new regulatory pathways for unapproved medical products to get to market during pandemic emergencies. The IHR amendments are vague on this, Jones wrote, but the proposed language of the treaty aims to speed up emergency authorizations of WHO-recommended investigational “relevant health products.”

The proposed treaty also seeks to compel member countries to take steps to ensure they have the “legal, administrative and financial frameworks in place to support emergency regulatory authorizations for the effective and timely approval of pandemic-related health products during a pandemic.”

4. Global mandates of unapproved products: The final key element in the Big Pharma-WHO plan to pave the way for a new pandemic market is shoring up the global capacity to mandate unapproved medical products.

According to Jones, in July 2023, the WHO adopted the European Union’s (EU) digital COVID-19 passport system, or the “immunity pass” which recorded people’s vaccination records, negative test results or records of previous infections.

“While a digital vaccine passport does not function as a hard mandate in which every citizen of a given population is forced to take a vaccine, it acts as a conditional mandate — one which offers the illusion of choice, but—in reality—restricts the civil liberties of those who do not comply,” Jones wrote.

The 2005 version of the IHR allowed for travel-based mandates that required proof of vaccination to enter countries when there was a public health risk. The new IHR, Jones wrote, expands on this by detailing the kinds of technology that can be used to check such information during future pandemics.

The WHO also is developing its Global Digital Health Certification Network, which expands the EU digital passport system to a global scale. It will digitize vaccination records and health records and will be “interoperable” with existing networks.

While interoperability makes it possible for decentralized data to be shared globally, Jones wrote, “The UN is seeking to impose digital identification as a ‘human right,’ or rather as a condition for accessing other human rights, for the entire global citizenry by 2030, as established in its Sustainable Development Goal 16.9.”

The initiative seeks to provide people with a “trusted, verifiable way” to prove who they are in the physical world and online.

Jones wrote:

“Verification systems of this size will place the right of citizens to do basic activities—like traveling, eating at a restaurant or working their job—in the hands of governments and potentially employers.

“The rights of civilians will be conditional, dictated by data stored in a massive digital hub that is global in its sharing abilities. Not only will domestic governments have access to the health information of their own citizens under this system, but an entire global bureaucracy will as well.”

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“… There are 14 therapies that are in the world today that we can use to fight against the COVID virus.”

—Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, “The Criterion”—July 4, 2020

Dear Reader: In reviewing “The Criterion,” we must remember that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan leveled not one, but two counts of genocidal acts against the corporate-controlled U.S. Government. The first was the development of a so-called ‘vaccine’ for Covid-19. The second was the conscious and deliberate suppression of highly effective, safe and affordable treatments and therapies for the virus. One of the 14 therapies he was referring to in the excerpt above is a medicine called Ivermectin. 

Covid-19 is a highly contagious disease that can kill a person under certain circumstances; primarily where the person has what health experts call “pre-conditions” or “co-morbidities.” In other words, health problems that can, in and of themselves, take a person’s life; health problems that have compromised the person’s immune system to the point that it cannot effectively defeat the virus. These conditions include diabetes, obesity, heart and respiratory problems, advanced age and kidney disease. 

It is important to understand that Covid-19, in and of itself, is a treatable disease with an overall death rate of less than 1% of those infected. It does not legally qualify or morally justify the extreme intervention of vaccinating an entire population. The FDA is currently in violation of federal law by allowing these “vaccines” to be injected into the human population. Worse than being unnecessary, the “vaccines” being administered have already shown themselves to be harmful, and in thousands of cases, deadly. 

The only reason for preventing the American public from access to safe and effective treatments is to protect the genocidal, highly profitable, vaccine program.

In this series, we will profile some of the major treatments for COVID-19 that have proven effective in the 18 months since the virus was made known to the public. We will provide information as to what they are, what they have been shown to do and, to the extent possible, where and how they can be obtained. 

Today, we profile Ivermectin, an inexpensive, anti-parasitic drug that has been safely used in humans for decades (4 billion doses administered). It is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medications and is already FDA approved. It stands out as a powerful weapon in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection. It works both in the initial phase of the illness where an antiviral is needed; it also works in the dangerous “hyper-inflammatory phase” of the disease. The spike protein, which is the key SARS-CoV2 entry into the human cell is “trimeric”: it has three parts. Ivermectin blocks all three parts.

Mexico City, Mexico has a population of 22 million. When their cases spiked last December, the city’s Ministry of Health created an ivermectin-based home treatment kit. It was given to persons who tested positive for COVID from an antigen test and had at least mild symptoms. Beginning December 29, 2020, researchers tracked 200,000 people. There was a reduction in hospitalization between 52% and 76% for those who took ivermectin. Covid case data from John Hopkins University just 2 days ago shows the entire country of Mexico, with a population of 127.6 million people, has had 2.57 million cases with 2.03 million recoveries! That’s around 99%. The total number of deaths is 234,000, most of which were prior to January 31, 2021. Deaths in Mexico City dropped sharply only a few weeks after ivermectin treatments began. Government findings were corroborated by Dr. Juan Chamie-Quintero, senior analyst at Colombian University. He also conducted a study in Peru, where the government approved ivermectin as a treatment for the virus in May, 2020. Deaths plummeted by 59% in 30 days, and dropped 75% after 45 days in those over the age of 60.

In closing this introductory section, note these words from the American Journal of Therapeutics, after analyzing a number of controlled treatment trials:  “the many examples of ivermectin distribution campaigns leading to rapid population-wide decreases in morbidity and mortality indicate that an oral agent effective in phases of COVID19 has been identified.” 

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