Members of Congress have sent two letters to Congress in the last 24 days asking for information on various ways that government employees have stomped on private companies to censor Americans ‘ online speech.
On Thursday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked executives at Google, Instagram, Meta, Microsoft, Snapchat, TikTok, and X ( formerly Twitter ) to disclose government demands for removing Americans ‘ speech from their platforms. The House Oversight Committee requested more information from NewsGuard, a federally sponsored organization that seeks to reduce readership and profits for outlets that publish data that disproves Democrat narratives, on Friday.
In response to requests from state actors to judge customer content in recent days, Schmitt’s notice asks social media monopolies to disclose this information, as well as any information they may hold about requests from public officials and political parties to restrict or remove hashtags or posts on social media.
Analytical reporting on the Murthy v. Missouri case and the Twitter Files case has revealed that lots of federal agencies have been using social media to censor posts and hashtags that support government-approved ideas. The systems now employ artificial intelligence to restrict online politically unpopular statement. These disapproved ideas include data that suggests people from different cultures sometimes live differently, concerns about the integrity of elections, or observations about how men and women are different.
The Supreme Court was ineffective in halting this government’s sway over secret companies, which also led to direct legal and financial sanctions from the White House against them. Murthy is currently awaiting more discovery in a lower national court.
Schmitt’s email responds to an October need from Spygate scammer Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and seven different Democrat staff that social media conglomerates increase repression leading into the 2024 election. According to Schmitt, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry stated previously to the World Economic Forum that “our First Amendment stands as a major block” for Democrats ‘ attempts to stop speech suppression.
In his committee’s letter, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer pointed out that federal agencies have dramatically increased their use of counterterrorism devices against Americans ‘ speeches in recent years, falsely describing disagreement with the government as “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Federal agencies frequently take legal action against allegedly private nonprofits and businesses like NewsGuard for doing so. The First Amendment and open records laws apply to these organizations.
” For example, one search of government grants and contracts from 2016 through 2023 revealed that there were 538 separate grants and 36 different government contracts specifically to address’ misinformation’ and ‘ disinformation,'” Comer wrote.  ,
According to Newsguard, the House committee requests “documents and communication” regarding all current and past agreements with or grants administered by federal government agencies or any other government agency, including foreign governments. The Federalist, along with The Daily Wire and the state of Texas, has sued the State Department for devoting counterterrorism funding to NewsGuard’s censorship tools, which it deployed against Americans ‘ speech. The Federalist and The Daily Wire are both directly targeted by these tools.
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