Thread by @AGAndrewBailey

If today's @Weaponization Committee hearing on our case Missouri v. Biden proved anything, it's that the Biden Administration has been coercing social media companies to censor free speech. Here's a glimpse at the evidence our case has uncovered so far:

From the very first days of the Biden Administration, senior White House officials engaged in a relentless pressure campaign, both in public and in private, to coerce platforms into censoring disfavored viewpoints on social media.

Here, WH Digital Director @RFlaherty46 tells Facebook that he "really couldn't care less" about how they're censoring information as long as "they're having measurable impact":

Here, the White House calls for the censorship of major conservative voices @TomiLahren and @TuckerCarlson:

Here, the WH tells Google that the order to censor "misinformation" comes from "the highest (and I mean highest) levels of the WH":

Surgeon General Murthy and his staff coordinate closely with the White House in this pressure campaign, causing social-media platforms to scramble and assure federal officials that “we hear your call to do more” to censor disfavored viewpoints:

When the social media companies weren't moving fast enough to censor speech, White House officials threatened to repeal their liability protection under Section 230.

Former Press Sec @jrpsaki pressured social media companies from the White House podium to work with them to censor disfavored speech by threatening their Section 230 protections:

But that's not all.

The FBI and DHS met with social media companies weekly for months leading up to the 2020 election as they worked together to censor "misinformation", such as the Hunter Biden laptop story:

FBI Agent Elvis Chan told our office that the FBI cooperates with at least seven social media companies through "information sharing and account takedowns" to censor speech:

FBI Agent Chan also testified that the FBI sends lists of accounts, content, websites, and URLs to social media platforms for censorship about “one to five times per month":

CISA, housed in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and created originally to ward off foreign cyberattacks, has now been weaponized to suppress domestic speech. This is the same group that launched the Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” last year.

Housed in CISA, the "Mis-, Dis, & Malinformation" Team started in 2018 as the Countering Foreign Influence Taskforce to ward off foreign cyberattacks. In 2021, the CFITF changed its name, reflecting its shift from foreign threats to domestic speech.

Here, the group reached out to Twitter, Google, Meta, and Microsoft following the botched rollout of DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board emphasizing their "continued partnership" to censor free speech:

CISA continues to work to censor free speech. Here, Twitter “actioned” (censored) accounts under their “civic integrity policies” after CISA flagged them:

Here, we see CISA offers to help the major social media companies connect with local election offices to combat "misinformation" on local elections:

CISA’s website long proclaimed that it “serves as a switchboard for routing disinformation concerns to appropriate social media platforms":

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

We presented these facts (and 1,400 others) to the Court in our motion for preliminary injunction earlier this month. The Biden Administration asked the Court to throw out our filing because it was "too long."

After seeing all of this evidence, the Court rejected Biden's motion to dismiss and has set a hearing date for later this spring. We look forward to presenting our evidence as we ask the Court to block the federal government from censoring any more speech.

This suit is the most important First Amendment case in a generation, and I'm proud to be leading the way in defending Americans' most fundamental rights.

Read more about the evidence we've presented to the Court here: ago.mo.gov/docs/default-s…