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Id. ns.peta.org/nih-monkey-torture/. of its ve could "save lives in remove, underserved areas of the world." Ex. __. Multiple users commented, "#animalabuser." Id. One commenter noted: "burn in hell elizabeth #animalabuser." Id. Given other comments made in response to the post, the commenter was likely referencing Dr. Elisabeth Murray, an NIH Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology who has been the target of PETA's advocacy efforts. See https://investigations.peta.org/nih-monkey-torture/. 46. NIH made a post on its Facebook page concerning gene therapies for rare diseases. See Ex. __. In particular, NIH posted: "#RareDiseases affect about 30 million Americans, but of the approximately 7,000 rare diseases identified, only two heritable diseases currently have [FDAapproved] #GeneTherparies. That's why #NIH . . . teamed up" with other entities "to launch the Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium." Id. Again, in response, NIH received a number of comments concerning animals. One commenter noted: "Absolutely disgusted with you. Feeding puppies to hungry sand flies? . . . Idea, lets try it on you instead." Id. Another commenter noted, "You deserve a fate in prison. You donate money to create unnecessary suffering, you are part of the murders, you are THE very conspirator." Id. 47. NIH believes that off-topic and inflammatory comments undermine the purpose of its social media pages. NIH believes that permitting any and all comments on its social media pages, regardless of content, would clutter those pages (any live events) and ultimately dissuade interested citizens from visiting the pages and retrieving helpful public health information. NIH also believes that comments of this nature disrupt NIH's goals of social media use--e.g., disseminating factual information about a topic--and disrupt NIH's live question and answer events.