Judge Forces Feds To Reveal More Evidence Of Social Media Censorship
More internal government communications will soon be revealed in a high-profile censorship case that already hit the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to a Friday court ruling in Missouri v. Biden. The historic free speech case uncovered that federal officials, all the way up to President Joe Biden, pressured social media companies to remove specific posts and discussion terms, systemically slanting society in favor of Democrats by controlling public discussions…
The plaintiffs’ lawyers include the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, Andrew Bailey and Elizabeth Murrill, respectively; and the New Civil Liberties Alliance. NCLA is a high-wattage constitutional law firm that recently persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn a former precedent called Chevron deference…
The plaintiffs have until Nov. 29 to file their initial proposal for what documents they seek. NCLA is also representing The Federalist, the state of Texas, and The Daily Wire in a separate lawsuit against the State Department for funding censorship tools that keep Americans from seeing The Federalist’s and Daily Wire’s reporting.
“Our plaintiffs, who have been censored extensively on social media and targeted for suppression by government actors, deserve to know the extent of the government’s involvement in silencing them,” NCLA lawyer Jenin Younes told Reclaim The Net.
November 10, 2024
Originally Published in The Federalist