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Subject: RE: PETA Lawsuit Update and Requests for Information
Hi Sarah,
Please see the answers to your questions below:
1. Were the twitter posts on the 10/3/14 discussion on brain health linked below posted directly on NIH's Twitter
account main page? Or was there a separate "chat" where these were posted? Plaintiffs want to know if anyone
that went to the NIH's twitter account during that time would have seen those posts.
You cannot post to someone's page on Twitter in the same way you can on Facebook. On Twitter, you
can either reply to someone's tweet (aka tweet thread) or tweet under an established hashtag. The
hashtag is a way to filter and organize tweets across Twitter by creating a feed with only those tweets
using the same hashtag. It's a way to create a conversation on the platform. The hashtag for the chat
was established by the NIH so that all chat participants could see the conversation around brain health.
PETA posted both to NIH tweets and used the hashtag in this scenario. Participants would be looking at
the tweets appearing on the hashtag (i.e. the conversation) and would have seen PETA's posts, and
those following the tweet thread would have also seen PETA's posts. This means there would be no way
to follow the information on the Twitter chat without being disrupted by the posts and being forced to
work around them to get the relevant health information.
2. Are you aware of complaints we've received against other types of posts, unrelated to animal testing? E.g.,
posts concerning Dr. Fauci, or posts concerning vaccine misinformation? I know I've asked this before, but
Plaintiffs specifically want to know if the complaints NIH receives are really focused on PETA, or if NIH received
complaints about inflammatory posts on a variety of subjects. I think Plaintiffs want to make the argument that
NIH is targeted animal rights posts over other inflammatory posts when they are equally inappropriate. Since
Plaintiffs want this answer as part of our fact stipulation negotiations, I think we have to provide it.
Yes - we've received complaints about other inappropriate and/or off topic content that is not related to
animal testing. Please see the screenshots and links to posts below.
https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159317371801830/?d=n
https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159342469336830/?d=n
https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/239873164850792/?d=n
https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/251454613692647/?d=n
https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255266059978169/?d=n
https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255956623242446/?d=n
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Records on this page
| Record | Date | Type | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| RE: PETA Lawsuit Update and Requests for Information | 2022-01-19 | 50–51 | |
| RE: PETA Lawsuit Update and Requests for Information | 2022-01-25 | 49–50 |