The whole-of-government approach to limit the spread of purported misinformation, disinformation and “malinformation,” from the White House to federal agencies and their private partners in Big Tech, think tanks and speech-policing organizations, is turning inside out.
Judicial scrutiny is supplementing the efforts of President-elect Trump’s choice for Federal Communications Commission chairman to dismantle the “censorship cartel” and Department of Government Efficiency co-leader Elon Musk to slash and burn the administrative state, with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center already a reported target.
A federal judge approved further legal discovery in a lawsuit by Louisiana, Missouri and censored doctors against federal officials and agencies including GEC for pressuring Big Tech to censor, months after the Supreme Court ruled they didn’t have standing for a preliminary injunction.
Alluding to Vice President Kamala Harris’s much-mocked verbal crutch, President Trump nominee Judge Terry Doughty ruled he was “burdened by what has been,” the SCOTUS ruling.
But he said the plaintiffs showed evidence that is not “impermissibly speculative”: a congressional investigation of Facebook parent Meta that found internal admissions it censored the COVID-19 lab-leak theory because it was “under pressure from the [Biden] administration” to do so, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s similar admission to Congress this summer. […]
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