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@Eric_Schmitt
Sep 1, 2022 • 18 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
🚨In May, We filed a landmark lawsuit against top ranking Biden Admin. officials for colluding with social media companies to censor free speech. We have already received documents that show their cozy relationship, and now we’re demanding more. 🧵
In July of 2022, MO and LA served discovery requests and third-party subpoenas, demanding documents from top-ranking Biden Administration officials and social media companies over their alleged collusion to suppress freedom of speech.
The Department of Justice is refusing to produce communications between the most senior officials and social media companies – yesterday we filed a joint petition asking the Court to compel them to produce those documents.
Here’s what we know so far. DOJ identified 45 federal officials who have interacted with social media companies on misinformation.
Beyond DOJ, Meta identified 32 additional federal officials including White House Officials who communicated with them, and YouTube identified 11 federal officials including White House Officials who communicated with them, many of whom were not disclosed by DOJ.
This is a vast censorship enterprise, and the American people deserve to see the truth. Here are examples that already prove that federal officials and social media companies are coordinating on censorship, and we’re not close to being done yet:
A senior FB official sent an email to the Surgeon General stating, “I know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.” This email chain follows the SG’s “misinformation health advisory” in July 2021. ImageImage
The same senior official sent a later email to HHS and noted, "Thanks again for taking the time to meet earlier today." Then, the official continued to discuss how Facebook is taking even more steps to censor freedom of speech ago.mo.gov/docs/default-s… ImageImage
Further communications show that Facebook is “increasing the strength of our demotions for COVID and vaccine-related content that third party fact checkers rate as ‘Partly False’ or ‘Missing Context.’
That content will now be demoted at the same strength that we demote any content on our platform rated ‘False.’”
Twitter scheduled a meeting to debrief top White House Officials on “vaccine misinformation.” Image
There are several instances where Facebook wouldn’t proceed with censoring freedom of speech on their platform until they had input, or a “debunking” from the CDC. Twitter followed the same course in at least one email. ImageImage
The CDC also proposed a monthly debunking meeting with Facebook to help them censor free speech as well as regular “Be on the Lookout” calls with major social media outlets. Image
A White House official was even concerned about parody Fauci accounts and coordinated with Facebook to take them down. Image
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reached out to Twitter, Google, Meta, and Microsoft following the botched rollout of DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board: ImageImage
The Deputy Secretary at Treasury sought to connect with social media platforms and influence operations on social media. ImageImage
This is just the beginning. We’ve beat the Biden Administration in court in this case, and we plan to do it again.
Missouri and Louisiana will continue to fight to get to the bottom of this alleged collusion and expose the suppression of freedom of speech by social media giants at the behest of top-ranking government officials. ago.mo.gov/home/news/2022…

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May 7
And there it is: Proof that the FBI covered up the political motive behind the 2017 congressional baseball shooting.

The shooter was a left-wing extremist who explicitly set out to kill GOP congressmen. The FBI knew this. But they told the public it was just “suicide by cop.” 🧵 Image
This stuff isn't "incompetence." It's specific, intentional ideological corruption. The FBI—like so many other institutions in American life—has become a vehicle for manipulating and shaping public narratives to serve left-wing interests.

And the media is eager to help: Image
The new House GOP report shows, in detail, how the FBI actively sought to suppress the overwhelming evidence that the shooter was acting on explicitly political motives—including concealing his handwritten list of Republican targets.

They insisted it was just "suicide by cop." Image
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Apr 29
Amazon spent decades profiting off of America Last trade policies.

First, they tried to attack President Trump's trade policies with this silly stunt. Then, they got hit for it. Now they're trying to back-pedal.

But it's too late. 🧵 Image
Amazon refuses to tell its users where most of their products are made—or if (and when) they’re made in foreign sweatshops. I bet you can guess why.

But NOW, you see, they're all about "transparency"!

That's really what they want us to believe?
Other countries have been ripping America off on trade for years with tariffs and illegal trade practices. Where was Amazon then? Silent.
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Apr 25
It's impossible to overstate how absurd this is.

You can't serve in the military if you have asthma.

But because of two federal judges, we have to bend over backwards to accommodate a "condition" that requires lifelong hormones and multiple surgeries?

We need to fight this. 🧵 Image
At the outset of his administration, President Trump signed a common-sense executive order barring transgender military service. In February, the Pentagon issued a memo affirming that people with a history of gender dysphoria are "incompatible" with U.S. military service. Image
Two federal judges didn't just block the policy—they ordered the Pentagon to immediately resume providing "gender-affirming medical care" to transgender military service members.

That includes hormone therapy and sex-change surgeries. Image
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Apr 24
The Supreme Court just heard arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor—a case about whether public schools can force kids to learn radical transgender ideology, even over parents' religious objections.

The Justices are likely to deal a blow to this woke ideology.

Here's what happened. 🧵
In 2022, the Montgomery County public school system introduced a series of "LGBTQ-inclusive" storybooks to be taught in pre-K to 5th grade.

When hundreds of parents raised religious objections, school bureaucrats eliminated parental notice and the ability to opt-out.
These books taught kids to:
(1) view pronouns and gender as arbitrary choices;
(2) reject those who believe in traditional marriage; and
(3) find terms like “drag queens,” “leather” in a sexual context, “non-binary,” and sex workers in image searches.
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Apr 22
The Supreme Court bypassed normal appellate procedure to halt President Trump's deportation of more illegal aliens.

There a lot of misinformation floating around about judicial rulings, the Alien Enemies Act, and immigration law.

Let's clear a few things up.🧵
On Apr. 7, SCOTUS held: 1. Judge Boasberg had no jurisdiction over the Tren de Aragua deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; 2. Those TdA thugs must seek relief under "habeas" where they are confined (Texas).

This takes the AEA cases from DC to TX.
Last Wednesday, the ACLU filed, in NDTX before Judge Wes Hendrix, a habeas petition and a motion for an ex parte TRO, asking the court to enjoin the Trump Admin's deportation of TdA members confined in NDTX without giving the Trump Admin notice or opportunity to respond.
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Apr 17
Until yesterday, the Biden Administration's "Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism" was classified.

Now, thanks to @DNIGabbard, it's public.

It's a roadmap for left-wing ideological warfare. 🧵 Image
In June 2021, the Biden admin released its public strategy for "countering domestic terrorism."

In a lawsuit, @America1stLegal discovered that there was a separate, classified version of that plan.

But the private version wasn't public—until now.
This was written in the early months of the Biden presidency. But it lays out, in detail, exactly what they would go on to do—and how they justified it.

By adopting the framework of "domestic terrorism" (DT), they could effectively treat their critics as enemies of the state.
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