Effects of Biden Administration’s Dominion Over Big Tech’s Suppression of Free Speech ‘Were Devestating’; House Subcomittee Report

Published on May 3, 2024

A House subcommittee has issued a May report chronicling the Biden administration’s dominion over Big Tech’s COVID-19 censorship efforts. The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), titled the report, “The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How Top Biden White House Officials Coerced Big Tech to Censor Americans, True Information, and Critics of the Biden Administration.” The report outlines the Biden administration’s months-long plan to pressure Meta (the parent company of Facebook), Alphabet (the parent company of YouTube), and Amazon to remove online content that challenged the official narrative. “While the Biden White House’s pressure campaign largely succeeded, its effects were devastating,” the report stated. “By suppressing free speech and intentionally distorting public debate in the modern town square, ideas and policies were no longer fairly tested and debated on their merits.”...