Dear John,

Many have long suspected that Big Tech companies are silencing conservative viewpoints and suppressing content from certain individuals and groups.

Family Research Council has been at the forefront of reporting on this free speech issue, joining congressional leaders in calling for transparency and accountability of these mega-corporations.

But recent discoveries reveal Big Tech is not the only culprit in speech suppression.

Last year, the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit alleging top officials in the federal government colluded with social media companies to violate the First Amendment rights of Americans.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry joined me on Washington Watch in early January to discuss some of their shocking findings so far:

"The deposition of Elvis Chan [who worked for the FBI] is the most damning... we discovered that the FBI actively had a secret backdoor portal under which they would communicate with Twitter employees, basically telling them who to censor, what information they believe was misinformation and disinformation, and who was allowed to post things on social platforms like Twitter. And we believe it existed at Facebook and the other platforms as well. Because remember Mark Zuckerberg also went on the Joe Rogan show and said actively that the FBI was communicating with them."

Landry's lawsuit backs up the revelations made in a series of tweets published by journalist Matt Taibbi in early December.

The documents known as "the Twitter files" were made public, revealing how the social media giant violated its own policies regarding content moderation. Taibbi reported how one former Twitter executive, Yael Roth, often made content moderation decisions and had weekly meetings with the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding election integrity. Roth was known for making explicitly partisan remarks on Twitter.

"If we don't have a democracy under which Americans are free to exercise their speech and free to discuss their ideas in the marketplace of ideas, then we are no better off than in a communist country," Landry said. "This is exactly the kind of conduct that the First Amendment was put in place into our Bill of Rights to prevent."

If free speech is going to survive in this nation, it is up to us to protect it.

Will you help FRC bring greater awareness of these leftist assaults against our fundamental freedoms and fight back against this blatant censorship?

America's biggest mainstream news outlets, CBS, ABC, and NBC, refuse to cover these stories of Big Tech's deception, but the truth will come out.

Republican members of Congress are ready to call out these former and current Big Tech executives before Congress. On Washington Watch, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) conveyed his outrage over the Twitter revelations. "If you're on the government clock... and using taxpayer resources to meddle in politics and campaigning -- you're breaking federal law."

Long before this evidence came to light, FRC had been proactively countering censorship and media bias.

Last year, FRC launched The Washington Stand (TWS), a media outlet that provides original reporting, news, and commentary that Americans can trust--grounded in a biblical worldview. In its first six months, TWS garnered 2.7 million views of its articles. TWS, along with FRC's daily Washington Watch radio and TV program, is bringing truth and light to our cultural darkness.

FRC exists to seek and speak truth. Americans must have access to the facts of what is happening regarding faith, family, and freedom.

Will you help amplify FRC's voice--grounded in biblical truth--through every media channel and innovative program?

Thank you for your prayers and financial support that sustain us in our mission to preserve the First Amendment and protect our God-ordained freedoms.

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