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by USNN2020October 9, 2022February 21, 2025

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by USNN2020October 7, 2022October 7, 2022

Nearly 50 new government defendants have been added to the lawsuit that alleges the government induced censorship of state officials and others on social media. The second amended complaint in the case, Missouri v. Biden, includes six new agencies, bringing the total to 13, and 41 new individual defendants, bringing the total to 54. Altogether, 67 officials or agencies are accused of violating plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by participating in a “censorship enterprise” through pressuring Big Tech firms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to take action against users offering alleged misinformation. Evidence backing the claims has been produced in discovery, including exchanges between White House officials and Meta, Facebook’s parent company and messages showing meetings between administration officials and the firms. The new defendants include the FBI; former White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andrew Slavitt; Dana Remus, counsel to President Joe Biden; Elvis Chan, an FBI special agent based in San Francisco; Janell Muhammed, deputy digital director at the Department of Health and Human Services; Allison Snell, an official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the State Department; and Mark Robbins, interim executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. One or more of the Big Tech firms that were subpoenaed in the case identified the officials as possibly communicating with them on content moderation relating to “COVID-19 misinformation,” the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, the administration’s since-disbanded Disinformation Governance Board, and/or “election security, integrity, outcomes, and/or public confidence in election outcomes (not to include issues of foreign interference or related issues).” Slavitt was named because emails show he was in communication with Facebook regarding the combating of alleged misinformation. The messages show that Facebook was committed to censoring and de-emphasizing posts that were “departing from the government’s messaging on vaccines,” plaintiffs said. Slavitt also called for Twitter to ban Alex Berenson, an independent journalist, previously released messages show. Muhammed, meanwhile, was in touch with Facebook to ask the company to take down pages and accounts that were allegedly misrepresenting themselves as representing the government. “Absolutely,” one of the Facebook employees responded. Other discovery suggests the FDA “has participated in federally-induced censorship of private speech on social media about questions of vaccine safety and efficacy, among other subjects,” plaintiffs said. The agencies that were added to the case did not respond to requests for comment. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee overseeing the case, recently ordered defendants named in earlier complaints to comply with demands, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top medical adviser to Biden. The new documents do not include any more information from Fauci or the White House press secretary’s office.

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47 New Biden Administration Defendants Named in Government–Big Tech Censorship Lawsuit

by USNN2020October 7, 2022December 28, 2024

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by USNN2020October 6, 2022February 26, 2025

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by USNN2020October 6, 2022December 25, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022June 30, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022December 20, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022January 21, 2025

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by USNN2020October 4, 2022October 4, 2022

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by USNN2020October 4, 2022February 24, 2025

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Florida Health Department: CDC’s COVID Count for State Is Wrong, Seeks Correction

By Jack Phillips The Florida Health Department on Monday disputed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) release of COVID-19 case numbers, claiming that the ...

One Democrat Joins All GOP Senators to Pass Anti-Critical Race Theory Amendment

By Jack Phillips The Senate on Tuesday passed an amendment that bans federal tax dollars from being used to promote or teach critical race theory (CRT), a ...

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By Nathan Worcester In the early hours of Aug. 11, Senate Democrats took another step toward approving a $3.5 trillion budget plan through reconciliation, with the aim ...

Watchdog to Probe NSA After Tucker Carlson Allegedly Targeted

By Zachary Stieber A federal watchdog is probing allegations that a top spy agency improperly surveilled Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The National Security Agency (NSA) Office ...

Texas Supreme Court Allows for Arrest of Democrats Who Don’t Show Up at Capitol

By Jack Phillips The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday voided a lower court’s order that restricted Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s authorization to arrest and detain state ...

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Announces Resignation Over Harassment Allegations

By Jack Phillips New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced Tuesday he will resign effective in 14 days after allegations of sexual harassment that were ...

McConnell Warns: GOP Won’t Raise Debt Ceiling Over $3.5 Trillion Spending Package

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Fund to Pay Epstein Victims Sends $125 Million to 150 People

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Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds State’s Gun-Carrying Law

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