The Biden Administration s Assault on Free Speech – WSJ

Among the revelations in the so-called Twitter files was that government officials pressured social-media companies to censor posts unfavorable to the Biden administration. The White House has denied this, insisting that companies like Meta and Twitter adopted content-moderation policies on their own. But internal documents newly released by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government prove that government pressure led Meta to go beyond what it otherwise would have in censoring user speech.

Court-ordered discovery in Missouri v. Biden has already revealed that the White House strong-armed platforms into more censorship than they considered justified prompting the judge to declare that the administration had made arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. The new documents go further, showing that the administration drove much of Meta s censorship.

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Philip Hamburger and Jenin Younes