According to a Department of Justice memo, the FBI is going to resume its
coordination with social-media companies on content moderation ahead of the
2024 election, after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to free-speech
advocates who argue the federal government's close cooperation with Big
Tech firms violates the First Amendment.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency records show government
involvement in pressure on Google, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok,
Pinterest, Reddit and other platforms to censor “disinformation.”
State
election officials in the days before and after the 2020 election flagging
online content deemed “misinformation” and sent it to the Center
for Internet Security (CIS), a DHS-funded nonprofit, the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Election Integrity
Partnership (EIP), and others.
In a
December 19, 2022, report on “Twitter Files,” independent
journalist Michael Shellenberger reveals an email which states the FBI
paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million of U.S. taxpayer money as
“reimbursement for the time spent processing requests from the FBI”
from October 2019 to February 2021.
