During a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway told lawmakers that the country’s constitutionally protected right to free speech “has been under worse harm than at any other point in our government’s history.”
Hemingway claimed that the censorship-industrial complex is stifling the freedom to express his thoughts, debate, and criticize strong 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 have even gone 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 remarked,” Non-profit think tanks like the Aspen Institute hold so-called “disinformation” courses to train editors to publish pro-censorship propaganda and suppress significant reports like the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell. ” To promote left-wing advertising while working to silence press that fights false narratives, non-profit censorship organizations like the Global Disinformation Index and for-profit repression organizations like NewsGuard create commonly used repression tools and blacklists,” according to the Global Disinformation Index and for-profit censorship organizations like NewsGuard.
Hemingway explains that leftwing media sources, who are no threat to the everlasting administration, are frequently ranked higher than those that challenge prevailing dogmas, using censorship resources employed by organizations like GDI and NewsGuard. These seemingly created lists are then used by businesses to “boycott some blogs and encourage others with advertising,” she explained.
The New York Times and The Washington Post consistently receive the best grades. We have some individuals in that fake here on this committee, and those papers won Pulitzers for their roles in the Russia collaboration hoax,” Hemingway said. 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 advanced, 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 the wide censorship-industrial advanced, as Hemingway has pointed out.
For instance, the left-wing Center for Countering Digital Hate and NBC News collaborated 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 racial-motivated violence and murder that persisted throughout 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 “documenting how Stanford University colluded with two political organizations to censor accurate information, jokes, satire, social reporting, and analysis, all of which they claimed were “disinformation.” The Federalist’s editor-in-chief noted that this censorship practice 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. In a report from Gallup in February, Gallup claimed that 70 % of Americans hold this view, saying they don’t trust corporate media to accurately, fairly, or fully report news.
Hemingway noted the difficulties of “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 our objectives without shutting us down. They won’t be successful, Hemingway declared. ” We will never stop,” the saying goes. 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 University of Mary Washington graduate and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously worked for Convention of States Action as a state content writer, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Conservative Review, RealClearPolitics, and RealClear Health. Follow him on Twitter at @ShawnFleetwood
