DYSTOPIAN? “Amazon Files” Reveal Biden White House’s Efforts to CENSOR BOOKS

Newly-released email documents obtained by the GOP House Judiciary reveal that Amazon caved in to pressure from the Biden White House to censor books that expressed views the federal government did not approve of.

Most of these books were skeptical of COVID-19 vaccines.

BREAKING: Newly subpoenaed emails reveal the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books with differing points-of-views, including topics on vaccines. pic.twitter.com/nXvBEh7CQ3

— Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) February 5, 2024

Rep. Jim Jordan showcased these “Amazon Files” in a series of posts on X.

Take a look (they’re well worth the read):

Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.

“Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”? pic.twitter.com/ZsAN9BZAcX

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

On March 2, 2021, Slavitt fired off an email demanding to know who he and his White House colleagues could talk to at the company about “the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?” pic.twitter.com/aWSMp3aSOc

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

Initially, Amazon decided to hold off on “doing a manual intervention” to censor books.

Why? Not out of any commitment to free speech, but because doing so would be “too visible” to the American public and likely to spur criticism from conservative media. pic.twitter.com/166wXiPsha

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

A week later, on March 9, 2021, Amazon met with the White House.

Internal Amazon documents reveal Amazon’s “top talking points” going into the meeting.

One of the key questions was whether the Biden White House wanted books banned or just buried deep in the search results: pic.twitter.com/wnWj9eCyJf

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

On March 2, 2021, Amazon determined internally that it would “not be doing a manual intervention today.”

The online bookstore set a meeting with senior Biden White House officials for March 9, 2021.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

Why did Amazon agree to take this meeting? Because they were “feeling pressure from the White House” pic.twitter.com/n7Xe0D5lhH

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

And that wasn’t all. Amazon also considered other ways “to reduce the visibility” of certain books that the Biden White House disliked. pic.twitter.com/q9JC1LYb5m

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

The investigation by the House Judiciary is still developing…

To be continued…

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

The Daily Signal was the first to report on the just-dropped book censorship files:

Amazon yielded to pressure from President Joe Biden’s White House to suppress books that opposed COVID-19 vaccines, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Signal.

The House Judiciary Committee obtained the emails, which demonstrate the White House’s pressure on Amazon to suppress “anti-vax books” and the company’s decision to take action against the books.

Amazon employees strategized for a meeting with the White House on March 9, 2021, openly asking whether the administration wanted the retailer to remove books from its catalog.

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“Is the [a]dmin asking us to remove books, or are they more concerned about search results/order (or both)?” one employee wrote.

Slavitt became notorious when Elon Musk released the internal files of Twitter in 2022 and 2023 after he purchased the company in October 2022. Slavitt appears to have repeatedly pressured social media companies into suppressing opposition to COVID-19 vaccines.

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Slavitt on Nov. 30.

The committee told Slavitt that it “obtained documents that demonstrate the central role you played in communicating the Biden White House’s censorship efforts to social media companies, including the White House’s demands to censor true information, memes, satire, and other constitutionally protected forms of expression.”

The Post Millennial also commented:

It has been revealed that Amazon censored books critical of Covid-19 vaccines at the behest of the Biden adminsitration.

The findings were uncovered by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and relayed to the public via X by Chairman Jim Jordan.

“Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by [Judiciary Committee] reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of,” Jordan wrote.

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What do you think?

Has the Biden admin gone full Fahrenheit 451?

🚨Breaking! Amazon emails reveal that the dictator in chief, Biden, had Amazon censor books!

Yes he had Amazon use a do not promote algorithm to bury unapproved books! There were other unmentioned methods also.

Another issue is that people lost income over this. Biden is a… https://t.co/uXSno72bIX

— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 (@pepesgrandma) February 5, 2024