The First Amendment Should Restrain CISA Too

CISA organized monthly "USG-Industry" meetings with the FBI and seven social-media platforms, including Twitter, Microsoft, and Meta, that allowed federal agencies to advance censorship requests and demands.

As the District Court explained, "The EIP was started when CISA interns came up with the idea; CISA connected the EIP with the CIS , which is a CISA-funded non-profit that channeled reports of misinformation from state and local government officials to social-media companies."

The three leaders of EIP all have roles at CISA. CISA employees and interns reported to EIP and "Were simultaneously engaged in reporting misinformation to social-media platforms on behalf of both CISA and the EIP," the District Court wrote.

CISA then directed state and local officials to work with EIP to coordinate censorship efforts.

These determinations were not based on veracity; CISA targeted "Malinformation," truthful information that the agency labeled inflammatory.

Dr. Kate Starbird, a member of CISA's "Misinformation & Disinformation" subcommittee, lamented that many Americans seem to "Accept malinformation as 'speech' and within democratic norms." This runs contrary to the Supreme Court's holding that "Some false statements are inevitable if there is to be an open and vigorous expression of views in public and private conversation." But CISA - led by zealots like Dr. Starbird - appointed themselves the arbiters of truth and colluded with the most powerful information companies in the world to purge dissent.

Now, the Fifth Circuit has a second chance to defend free speech against the coordinated assault from CISA and its cohorts at the State Department. 

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-first-amendment-should-restrain-cisa-too/