Unraveling the Biden censorship regime

 Washington Examiner:

The Biden administration is facing repeated accusations about its role in censoring speech, often in collaboration with social media companies or via efforts to combat disinformation .

In response to a lawsuit and Freedom of Information Act requests, the Department of Justice has identified at least 45 federal officials at numerous executive branch agencies who communicated with social media companies about misinformation, and now, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci have been ordered to turn over communications with them.

"We have already received a number of documents that clearly prove that the federal government has an incestuous relationship with social media companies and clearly coordinate to censor freedom of speech, but we're not done," said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt in a press statement .

Schmitt, who is running for Senate, has teamed up with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to file a lawsuit against President Joe Biden over the administration's role in censoring COVID-19 misinformation. Schmitt further accused the DOJ of "cowering behind executive privilege" and refusing to turn over communications between the highest-ranking Biden administration officials and social media companies.

Biden and Democrats raise the threat of disinformation for such issues as elections, vaccines, and the origins of COVID-19 but have drawn their own share of criticism when offering solutions.

One of the most noteworthy examples was the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board, which was likened to the Ministry of Truth from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. The board's executive director, Nina Jankowicz, had a history of promoting false claims and playing down truthful ones, and the board was shut down soon after it was launched.

But just one month later, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new initiative called the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse. During an event announcing the task force on June 16, the vice president did not respond to a reporter's question about how it would enforce its goals with social media companies, and a report repeatedly cited by the task force had strong ties to Jankowicz .

More recently, materials found in the lawsuit show officials from DHS, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Office of the Surgeon General regularly communicated with social media platforms about misinformation.
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The Biden regime is now using the litigation which exposed their censorship as an excuse not to be open and honest about it.  I suspect they are covering for Biden who was likely behind the unconstitutional efforts.