Talk about hardball tactics. That, at least, is how Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, is characterizing how the Biden White House pressured the social media giant to remove Facebook posts that raised questions about vaccines during the Covid pandemic. The Biden officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta staffers, Mr. Zuckerberg is disclosing. It’s no wonder a federal judge compared the Biden censorship regime to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth.” 

That was the government agency in the novel “1984” charged with “altering historical records and disseminating propaganda to manipulate and control public perception,” Judge Terry Doughty pointed out when he ruled against President Biden’s program to censor social media communications in the name of fighting “misinformation.” Judge Doughty called it “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”