The “Twitter files” revealed an FBI operation to monitor and censor social media content
- Dozens of FBI employees worked on the identification and removal of material on a wide range of subjects
- Twitter largely carried out their requests
- The Twitter files also show various FBI offices monitoring social media and flagging “misleading” information on various subjects
What is most striking is that the FBI was not responding to false claims about its operations
- Instead, these censorship demands were the result of policing "misinformation" and "disinformation" on subjects ranging from political corruption to elections
- The FBI has every reason to pursue criminal fraud, this operation appears to have targeted speech it deemed harmful to political or social discourse
- For years, politicians and pundits have dismissed free-speech concerns by noting that the First Amendment only applies to the government.
- So long as corporations do the censoring, they contend, it is not a free speech problem. This obviously is wrong
- Corporate censorship of political commentaries or news stories are denials of free speech that harm our democratic system
- This is a First Amendment violation
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