During a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway told lawmakers that the American’s constitutionally protected right to free speech “has been under worse harm in the last decade than at any other place in our nation’s history.”
Hemingway claimed that the censorship-industrial complex is stifling the freedom to express his thoughts, debate, and condemn effective organizations like the government and the corporate media.
The Federalist’s editor-in-chief made a point in her opening statement by highlighting how the federal and state governments have “funded ] and promoted ] censorship and blacklisting technology” and even went so far as to “direct Big Tech companies to censor American speech and debate.” She especially cited how educational institutions like Stanford University and the University of Texas are funded by large offers to do research on’disinformation’ for use by the repression regime, not to defend free speech.
Hemingway said that non-profit think tanks like the Aspen Institute hold “disinformation” seminars to train journalists to distribute pro-censorship propaganda and control significant stories like the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell. Non-profit censorship organizations like NewsGuard and for-profit censorship organizations like the International Disinformation Index create commonly used censorship resources and registries to favour left-wing media while working to solitude media that fight false narratives.
Hemingway explains that leftwing media sources that are less of a risk to the permanent bureaucracy are frequently ranked higher than those that challenge prevailing dogmas. She explained that companies use these seemingly created lists to “boycott some publications and encourage others with advertising” in the future.
The New York Times and The Washington Post consistently receive the best grades. We have some individuals in that fake here on this committee, Hemingway said, and those papers won Pulitzers for their contributions to the Russia collusion fake. Through diligent monitoring and exploration, as we did with the public’s vile lies against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, my release, The Federalist, exposed that fake. We also exposed a significant portion of the censorship industry intricate, and we even filed legal action against the State Department after learning how censorship tools are being promoted and promoted even in our current environment.
The Federalist is no man to being a target of the broad censorship-industrial advanced, as Hemingway has pointed out.
For instance, the left-wing Center for Countering Digital Hate and NBC News conspired to try to extort The Federalist’s Google advertising income during the summer of 2020. According to Jordan Boyd of The Federalist,” NBC News reported that Google banned The Federalist due to a bad record from the show’s “verification product,” and the Center for Countering Digital Hate objected to The Federalist’s monitoring about the race-motivated violence and assault that afflicted the country during the summer of rage.”
Hemingway cited a 2023 report from the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government as evidence that Stanford University conspired with two governmental organizations to censor all of the “disinformation” they claimed were all. The Federalist editor-in-chief pointed out that this censorship operation targeted both her and Federalist CEO Sean Davis.
” One of the censored items was a story about a TV appearance in which I said to the media,” They lie, they lie, they lie, and then they lie,” I said. According to Gallup, 70 % of Americans hold this view, and they claim to not trust corporate media to accurately, fairly, or fully report news,” Hemingway said in a letter from Gallup in February.
Hemingway noted the difficulties in “facing” the enormous censorship-industrial complex in her opening statement, and that doing so is “exactly what censors want: making it impossible to report the truth about their lies.”
They are aware that our voices are so powerful and influential that they can’t accomplish their objectives without shutting us down. Hemingway remarked,” They won’t succeed.” ” We will never stop.” It’s about whether we will have a civilization where people are permitted to say and think things that tyrants don’t want us to, the more they try to stop us.
Shawn Fleetwood is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously worked for Convention of States Action as a state content writer, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Conservative Review, RealClearPolitics, and RealClear Health. Follow him on Twitter at @ShawnFleetwood
