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inflicting massive psychological damage. On top of that, the University of Wisconsin has banned any keywords regarding primate testing on their social media pages, meaning any opposition on social media is automatically silenced. They also delete the testimonials of former employees. Why go to all that trouble to silence their own alumni if everything is above-board? We need to reinvest in human-relevant, modern research instead of this barbaric and archaic practice, which does not yield cures to our most deadly diseases!" After checking the post using a different Instagram account and confirming that the comment post was not publicly viewable by users, deleted this comment. 74. then wrote a series of one-word comments on an NIH Instagram post, dated January 28, 2021. posted: "test," "monkeys," "experiments," "peta," "experimenting," "torture," and "testing." All of these terms except "experiments" and "experimenting" were on NIH's Instagram keyword filtering list at the time of the comments. None of comments were publicly viewable by users, however, the comments containing the words "experiments" and "experimenting" could be viewed by an Instagram user who selected "view hidden comments" on the NIH's Instagram post. However, "peta" was removed from NIH's Instagram keyword filter list on December 3, 2021. A copy of comments is attached hereto as Exhibit [X]. 75. next wrote a series of one-word comments to an NIH Facebook post on IVF conception. wrote, "peta," "primate," "primates," "monkey," "monkeys," "torture," "torturing," "tortures." All of these comments contained terms on NIH's Facebook keyword filtering list at the time of the comment. However, "peta" was removed from NIH's Facebook keyword filtering list on December 3, 2021. These comments were hidden from users'

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