House Republicans on Wednesday used a hearing on the U.S. government’s coronavirus policies to highlight a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of using social media to censor Americans’ speech in violation of the First Amendment.
Republicans have taken a new tack
In that case, a Trump-appointed federal judge has allowed the plaintiffs to collect thousands of communications between Biden administration officials and social media companies as they search for evidence that the government coerced the firms into suppressing posts that expressed dissenting views about the coronavirus, vaccines, elections and other sensitive topics.
At Wednesday’s House hearing, Missouri’s Bailey found a receptive audience for his claims among Republicans, while Democrats indicated skepticism., the White House’s director of digital strategy, to Google officials. In the email, Flaherty expressed concern that “YouTube is ‘funneling’ people into hesitance” about the coronavirus vaccines. That concern, he added, “is shared at the highest levels of the [White House].
At issue, legally, is whether such dialogue and nudges rose to the level of government coercion — or whether they were in keeping with the federal government’s own rights to express its views on the pandemic and misinformation.Another witness at Wednesday’s hearing, University of Virginia law professor Micah Schwartzman, said he has yet to see persuasive evidence of government coercion, calling claims of censorship “unverified allegations.
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