United States - USNN World News

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.

National News

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

by USNN2020October 7, 2022December 28, 2024

National News

US Buys $290 Million Worth of Drugs in Preparation for Nuclear Emergencies

by USNN2020October 7, 2022August 26, 2024

National News

Federal Judge Blocks Parts of New York’s Restrictive New Gun Law

by USNN2020October 6, 2022February 26, 2025

National News

Election Software CEO Arrested Over Data Theft, Storing Data on Servers in China

by USNN2020October 6, 2022February 18, 2025

National News

FBI Sued for Withholding Records of Facebook Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story

by USNN2020October 6, 2022December 25, 2024

National News

John Durham Can’t Discuss Trump Dossier Source’s Alleged Links to Russian Intelligence at Trial: Judge

by USNN2020October 5, 2022June 30, 2024

National News

Supreme Court Directs Department of Justice to Respond to Trump Request

by USNN2020October 5, 2022December 20, 2024

National News

US Debt Tops $31 Trillion for First Time Ever on Biden Admin Spending Spree

by USNN2020October 5, 2022January 21, 2025

National News

Americans’ support for Biden’s electric car push is nearly zero

by USNN2020October 4, 2022October 4, 2022

National News

Hunter Biden Laptop Whistleblower Speaks Out 2 Years Later

by USNN2020October 4, 2022February 24, 2025

National News

Trump Sues CNN for Defamation, Seeks $475 Million

by USNN2020October 3, 2022June 7, 2025

National News

New Details About Potentially Privileged Documents From Trump Resort Made Public

by USNN2020October 3, 2022February 24, 2025

NATIONAL NEWS

Coronavirus antibody testing finds Bay Area infections may be 85 times higher than reported: researchers

By Alexandria Hein | Fox News A team of researchers in California found that the number of coronaviruses cases in one county may actually be up to 85 times ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hits back at critics of her coronavirus response: ‘I believe in our freedoms and liberties’

By Talia Kaplan | Fox News Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hit back at critics who accused her of being too lax with her coronavirus response after there was an outbreak at a processing ...

Experimental coronavirus drug remdesivir shows promise in Chicago trial, report says

By James Rogers | Fox News The experimental COVID-19 treatment remdesivir is showing promise in a Chicago clinical trial, according to the health news site STAT. STAT reported that patients in the trial ...

Elon Musk, CNN spar over ventilator story; Musk surprised network ‘still exists’

By Brian Flood | Fox News Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked CNN on Thursday, saying he’s surprised the liberal network still exists after it reported he did ...

MSNBC host suggests Biden form ‘shadow government’ to counter Trump on coronavirus

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News The U.S. presidential election is still seven months away but an MSNBC host is already suggesting that Democrat Joe Biden set up a “shadow government” against the ...

Trump says he may forcefully adjourn Congress, use recess to appoint nominees

By Nick Givas | Fox News President Trump announced during a White House address Wednesday that he is considering adjourning Congress and using its absence to make political appointments. “If the House will ...

CNN updates article after being accused of publishing ‘Chinese propaganda’

By Brian Flood, Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News CNN overhauled a story on its website Wednesday after being widely accused of publishing “Chinese propaganda” in a report that originally ...

Drivers swarm Michigan capital to protest coronavirus lockdown measures

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs descended on Michigan’s state capital Wednesday afternoon as part of a noisy protest against Democratic Gov. Gretchen ...

Tool for tracking coronavirus relief payments goes live

By Aimee Picchi Tool for tracking coronavirus relief payments goes live With millions of Americans eagerly awaiting their federal aid checks to help them weather the ...

Trump campaign slams Obama’s Biden endorsement: ‘Even Bernie Sanders beat him to it’

By Brooke Singman | Fox News The Trump campaign argued Tuesday that former President Barack Obama was forced to endorse Joe Biden after sitting on the sidelines for the entirety of the ...

Georgia state Democrat backs Trump for reelection, draws party’s wrath

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News A state lawmaker in Georgia drew backlash from fellow Democrats on Tuesday after endorsing President Trump for reelection. State Rep. Vernon Jones, whose Atlanta-area district includes parts ...

Former CNN pundit: Network is officially ‘Leftist State Media’ after Trump chyron coverage

By Brian Flood | Fox News CNN’s coverage of Monday’s White House coronavirus press briefing put a harsh spotlight on the network’s line-blurring between journalism and agenda-driven opinion, media experts tell ...