FCC Commissioner: Why Is Facebook Censoring Accurate Information About Kamala Harris?

Vice President Kamala Harris is shamelessly trying to run away from her 
'Border Czar' responsibilities, often with the assistance of a compliant 
'news' media, but that wasn't the only major job with which she's been 
tasked in the Biden-Harris administration.  The president also tapped 
her to help lead and oversee a number of expensive 'green' and 
infrastructure initiatives.  On a costly plan to install new electric 
vehicle chargers (Harris is suddenly pretending she has nothing to do 
with EV mandates she has supported and co-sponsored), Politico described 
its 'progress' in late 2023: "Congress at the urging of the Biden 
administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of 
thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to 
appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change. Two years later, 
the program has yet to install a single charger."  This past summer, the 
results were still embarrassing: "Just seven electric-vehicle charging 
stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion US 
government program created in 2021, marking “pathetic” progress, a 
Democratic senator said on Wednesday."

That serves as a backdrop to a related matter on which Harris was 
explicitly placed in charge.  FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr summarized 
the issue in a recent Wall Street Journal op/ed, explaining how a 
much-ballyhooed rural broadband project has utterly failed thus far, on 
Harris' watch:

Kamala Harris lamented recently that “in America, it takes too long and 
it costs too much to build.” She’s right. But she failed to mention that 
those costly delays are a feature, not a bug, of her progressive 
policies. Consider Ms. Harris’s record. In 2021 she agreed to lead the 
administration’s $42 billion plan for expanding high-speed internet to 
millions of Americans. That year, she tweeted that “we can bring 
broadband to rural America today.” Today, nearly three years after 
Congress passed the infrastructure bill that created the program, not 
one home or business has been connected through it. The Biden-Harris 
administration recently confirmed that construction projects won’t begin 
until next year at the earliest, and in many cases not until 2026.

Instead of focusing on delivering broadband to unserved areas, the 
administration has used the program to advance a wish list of political 
goals. It has adopted regulations that include diversity, equity and 
inclusion requirements, climate-change rules, price controls, 
preferences for union labor, and schemes that favor government-run 
networks.  The administration has been handing out wins to favored 
political groups rather than delivering results. Other factors have kept 
Ms. Harris’s high-speed program in the slow lane. Testifying before a 
congressional oversight committee, one state government official 
described “a chaotic implementation environment” marked by “dysfunction” 
and “delays.” The administration, she said, “has provided either no 
guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.”

This is, of course, a poor reflection on the Biden-Harris 
administration, an indictment of her leadership, and another example of 
why bloated government programs are so often wasteful and useless.  It 
also begs the question of what, if anything, Harris has done well as 
Vice President.  But what makes this all worse is Commissioner Carr's 
subsequent allegation that Facebook is censoring his accurate WSJ piece 
as 'misinformation:'


Facebook is now censoring the fact that VP Harris has failed to connect 
even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42 
billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this 
“false information,” not because anyone has been connected—no one 
has—but because the government has been spending money while not 
connecting anyone. Worse?  The fact checker’s only sources are 
Biden-Harris officials. I thought Zuckerberg promised Congress that it 
had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris 
Administration...Here’s what VP Harris and Facebook don’t want you to 
know: VP Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion 
program to expand Internet access to millions of Americans for 1,070 
days. Zero people have been connected. Zero shovels worth of dirt have 
even been turned.

A social media giant is suppressing accurate information, furnished by a 
government official--deciding it's "false," based on the say-so of 
other, favored government officials. That is unacceptable and 
disturbing, but it can't be seen as terribly surprising at this point. 
But for those who purport to care about democracy dying in darkness, and 
'misinformation,' and transparency, how can this sort of thing be 
justified or defended?  Or is it an ends-justify-the-means gambit that 
throttles or blocks unhelpful information (even if there's a dispute 
about whether it's fully correct, or at least disputed, or lacking 
context) right before an election?  As for other elements of Harris' 
record and worldview, this was revealing:

A number of people have pointed out this juxtaposition:

I'll leave you with some of the other interesting choices Harris and her 
surrogates are making entering the final stretch of this high-stakes 
campaign:

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