“The Government” has awesome power to make your life miserable (cough cough Obamatrons in the Internal Revenue Service as example) thru various means.
I greatly distrust the White House’s words. Listen to what the White House says rather than reading the Forbes softening article. The White House is making “ proposals” to FB about what FB needs to do.
That is not Joe Biden speaking as a leader about Covid misinformation which he is welcome to do, and I would expect him to do. That is a planned campaign with teeth, a low level threat. There are international diplomatic dances with enemy countries that engage like this.
I realize that free speech is of lesser concern in Canada. I think you all are dead wrong about that value.