Facebook CEO Admits White House “Repeatedly Pressured” Company to Censor COVID-19 Posts
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and parent company Meta, admitted in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan last month that the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured” his company to censor and remove many COVID-19-related posts in 2021. The letter, dated Aug. 26, 2024, confirmed that the White House repeatedly pressured Meta, a dominant […]
Supreme Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Against Government for Coercing Social Media Firms to Censor Speech
The states of Missouri and Louisiana, together with three doctors, a health care advocate and a news website, sued federal officials and agencies including Anthony Fauci, MD, FBI special agents, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), State Department and Election Assistance Commission. […]
NJ Court Rules Refusal to Wear a Mask Not Protected by the First Amendment
A federal Appeals Court in New Jersey has ruled that the refusal to wear a mask at a school board meeting did not amount to protected free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Two similar cases were consolidated in this decision by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (hereinafter “Court”). The Plaintiffs […]
The First Amendment, Brought to You By Pfizer
Pfizer now claims the right of a corporate sovereign, arguing that states have “no legitimate interest in regulating” the company’s commercial speech while demanding the power to censor Americans’ newsfeeds. The call for pharmaceutical supremacy came in Pfizer’s response to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s suit alleging that Pfizer committed fraud and “conspired to censor public discourse.” Pfizer embraces […]
U.S. Appellate Court Blocks Injunction Against Federal Agencies Acting to Censor Free Speech
Freedom of speech in the United States was delivered a blow on July 14, 2023 when a U.S. Federal Appeals Court issued a temporary stay blocking a preliminary injunction which limited the U.S. Justice Department’s communication with social media companies seeking to remove “content containing protected free speech.” The Appellate Court panel of Judges, Judge […]
Officials at Federal Gov’t Agencies, White House Sued for Censoring COVID Information
Sixty-seven U.S. federal government agencies and officials, including senior officials in the White House, have been accused of engaging in a widespread campaign of pressuring and colluding with social media platforms to censor users in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Former Missouri Attorney General, Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff […]