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PLAINTIFFS' COMMENTS ON NIH'S SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES PETA 56. Certain comments made by multiple PETA employees in response to Facebook Live videos and Facebook posts--and which contained one or more terms on NIH's keyword filter list--did not appear on the NIH Facebook page. 57. On September 24, 2020, PETA employee IEEE was prevented from posting three comments on a Facebook Live video on the NIH Facebook page about COVID-19 vaccine research. One read, "Francis Collins, we appreciate all your hard work to search for a COVID vaccine, but why is NIH still wasting money on cruel and ineffective monkey fright experiments?" [BBE was unable to post these comments at all. EE comment contains the words "cruel" and "monkey." which are on NIH's Facebook keyword filtering list. i I saw that the comment had not been posted because it was bordered by a red box, and text below the comment read "Unable to post comment. Try again." A copy of EE attempted comments is attached hereto as Exhibit [X]. 58. On October 8, 2020. NBN again tried to comment on an NIH Facebook Live video about gene editing, but several of her comments were hidden, including: "Congratulations, Dr. Doudna! Francis Collins, please end NIH's fright experiments on primates;" and "CRISPR can be used for advanced, non-animal experiments. In light of the many non-animal technologies that are developing, how can NIH continue to conduct experiments on macaques and other primates?" [EE comments contain the word "primates," which is on NIH's Facebook keyword filtering list. i I saw that the comments had not been posted because they were bordered by a red box, and text below the comments read "Unable to post comment. Try again." A copy of EEE attempted comments is attached hereto as Exhibit [X].