Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett said Wednesday that the “incriminating evidence” that the Biden administration is colluding with social media companies to censor its views is “compelling.”
U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Tuesday issued an injunction barring Biden administration officials from multiple agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Health and Human Services, from interacting with social media. bottom. Businesses should promote “removal, removal, suppression, or reduction of content that includes protected free speech.” “This injunction by a federal judge is a very important step in governing government abuses of power,” Jarrett told Fox News host Trace Gallagher. (Related article: Tucker Carlson says he was ‘censored’ by the White House for pointing out the ‘big problem’ of the coronavirus vaccine.)
“As you know, the Twitter file and subsequent congressional hearings show how the FBI and other agencies, under veiled threats to suppress media postings for purely political reasons, It made it clear that they were bullying, pressuring and coercing companies,” Jarrett added.
Doughty rejected On March 20, the Biden administration submitted a motion to reject the bill. suit It was filed on May 5, 2022 by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Eric Schmidt and Louisiana’s Jeff Landry.
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“Long ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, Trace, that this kind of proxy censorship, as it is known, violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” continued Jarrett. “Strictly speaking, it is also a crime under U.S. law for government officials to conspire with others to violate someone’s constitutional rights.”
Doughty cited 25 instances in which social media companies censored or were pressured to censor by the Biden administration. according to To the Twitter thread posted by Justin Hart, author of Inference of coronavirus Substack newsletter.
The judge in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit dropped bombshell documents supporting the preliminary injunction. many government defendants. He cited 25 cases in which the White House colluded with social media companies to censor Americans.
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) July 5, 2023
Tucker Carlson, co-founder of the Daily Caller and the Daily Caller News Foundation, according to an email from White House director of digital strategy Rob Flaherty to an anonymous Facebook employee on April 14, 2021. was also subject to censorship by the Biden administration. , called on the company to censor a video about Mr. Carlson’s vaccine released in January.
“As we were talking on the phone, the top post on vaccines today was [T]Acker Carlsson says it doesn’t work.Yesterday was Tomi Lehren [sic] Flaherty wrote to a Facebook employee, who promised to look into the matter.
“The incriminating evidence here was compelling. The FBI, Homeland Security, the State Department, they were all involved. They were colluding with the platform to bar dissent,” Jarrett said. Told. “The judge did not for a moment accept the Department of Justice’s rather hollow claim that its only purpose is to combat disinformation in the name of national security.”
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