A powerful official of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) lamented an alleged decline in censorship coordination between government officials and Big Tech, even as a major tech CEO apologized for that censorship.
DSCC Chief Information Security Officer Jude Meche mourned the increasing difficulties of manipulating free speech online due to congressional investigations and lawsuits, reported Reclaim the Net on Tuesday.
Meche was one of the participants at a panel hosted by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19. Panelists reportedly sighed for “the good old days” after the 2016 election when Big Tech companies were willing to comply with government pressure without fears of congressional scrutiny.
According to the panelists, the Big Tech-government coordination supposedly enhanced “election integrity,” a strange phrase to use considering that Big Tech and Big Media stole the 2020 election through censorship.
Meche even voluntarily admitted the coordination between Big Tech and Democrats, per Reclaim the Net.
“Following the 2016 election, we had calls with X and with Meta all the time,” Meche bragged, referring to the social media platform formerly named Twitter and the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. The Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit exposed how Big Tech communicated with individuals at all levels of government on content moderation. Meche said, “They were working with us. That no longer exists, that all faded quickly. We don’t have counterparts in these companies anymore.”
Meche’s discussion of Meta is significant in light of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new letter to the House Judiciary Committee admitting that his company gave in to government pressure to censor free speech. Zuckerberg noted that his company crushed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020 and caved to the Biden-Harris administration’s COVID-19 censorship demands in 2021.
Zuckerberg expressed regret over Meta’s blind compliance, claiming, “I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction.” While Zuckerberg’s admission marked a partial victory for free speech, his social media platforms have continued to censor speech, as MRC’s unique CensorTrack database shows. For instance, Facebook was reportedly suppressing content about the new Reagan biographical movie. On August 14, Facebook removed a user’s post that simply said, “Amen!!” And Instagram, on August 12, deleted a user’s comments about Muslim migrants.
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