As it turns out, an astonishing new release of discovery documents in Missouri v. Biden-in which NCLA Legal is representing plaintiffs including Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Aaron Kheriaty against the Biden administration for violations of free speech during Covid-reveal a vast federal censorship army, with more than 50 federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies having secretly coordinated with social media companies to censor private speech.
Secretary Mayorkas of DHS commented that the federal Government's efforts to police private speech on social media are occurring "Across the federal enterprise." It turns out that this statement is true, on a scale beyond what Plaintiffs could ever have anticipated.
The limited discovery produced so far provides a tantalizing snapshot into a massive, sprawling federal "Censorship Enterprise," which includes dozens of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies and components identified so far, who communicate with social-media platforms about misinformation, disinformation, and the suppression of private speech on social media-all with the intent and effect of pressuring social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech that federal officials disfavor.
YouTube disclosed eleven federal officials engaged in such communications, including officials at the Census Bureau and the White House, many of whom were also not disclosed by Defendants.
Federal officials are granted privileged status by social media companies for the purpose of censoring speech on their platforms, and officials hold weekly meetings on what to censor.
Facebook trained CDC and Census Bureau officials on how to use a "Facebook misinfo reporting channel." Twitter offered federal officials a privileged channel for flagging misinformation through a "Partner Support Portal." YouTube has disclosed that it granted "Trusted flagger" status to Census Bureau officials, which allows privileged and expedited consideration of their claims that content should be censored.
How could so many federal officials be convinced to engage in the clandestine censorship of opposition to tin-pot public health policies from China which have killed tens of thousands of young Americans and-let's be honest-were never really that popular to begin with? The answer, I believe, is that high-level White House officials such as Anthony Fauci must have been simultaneously threatening social media companies if they did not comply with federal censorship demands, while also threatening entire federal bureaucracies if they did not toe the Party line.
https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-red-guards-the-mass-censoring-of-social-media/
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