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Questions from Last Call 1. Should NIH should stop its blocking non-viewpoint neutral keywords? NIH should stop blocking the following keywords immediately: Facebook ● Peta ● Petalatino Instagram ● Peta When this is done, please let me know so I can give the date these keywords were no longer blocked to the DOJ. DONE ON 12/3/21 In terms of the following Instagram filters: ● #stopanimaltesting ● #stoptesting ● #stoptestingonanimals The DOJ is leaving this as a policy decision for NIH. The ideal solution would be for NIH to still achieve its desired goals without having these one-sided keywords blocked. For example, if the hashtag #testing is blocked, will that also block #stopanimaltesting, #stoptesting, and #stoptestingonanimals? Or, does the entire phrase need to be blocked for it to work? I do see "testing" is a manual filter, but not hashtag #testing- does this make a difference? ● Entire phrase needs to be put as a filter for it to be blocked. "Testing" would only block "testing." The options are: 1. Remove the above filters and use a different neutral keyword hashtag to achieve the same effect to help stop the barrage of comments from PETA, such as #testing or #animals, if this would work - NIH chooses this option Question: Can we add filters in the future as long as they're neutral? 2. Keep the above filters but add a hashtag representing the pro-animal testing side to achieve neutrality, if there are any commonly used pro-animal testing words or hashtags such as #keepanimaltesting, 3. Remove the filters without additional changes if it isn't making much of a difference, or