About a third of the employees at one of the most infamous anti-free speech federal agencies have left since President Donald Trump took office, according to a new report.
Approximately 1,000 employees of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have been fired or taken buyout offers to leave the censorship-obsessed agency, Axios reported Tuesday. CISA actively coordinated with private entities and Big Tech on censorship efforts, as exposed by the Twitter Files, the landmark Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit and MRC Free Speech America’s 57 Biden censorship initiatives report.
Some former CISA employees took a generous buyout package from the new administration, while others were fired in the shake-up aimed at curbing federal censorship efforts. Trump himself suspended the clearances of Homeland Security and CISA officials whom MRC exposed in its 57 censorship initiatives for targeting free speech on the taxpayers’ dime. Axios stated that current Trump-led budget proposals have a 17 percent funding cut for CISA, too.
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The leftist outlet bewailed the reductions at CISA and hysterically asserted that enemies foreign and domestic could take advantage of the reforms to strike at the United States.
Axios then parroted a leftist talking point that reducing the number of would-be censors raises “fears that power grids, water utilities, and election systems could be left without a well-equipped federal partner as cyber threats mount.”
However, rather than protecting elections, CISA cracked down on election-related free speech. Former CISA Director Jen Easterly claimed online speech could “undermine American trust in our democratic institutions and the election specifically.” Yet, after the 2024 election, she admitted to the House Judiciary Committee that the election did not experience the major disruptions or attacks that she had predicted.
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MRC singled out CISA in its March 13 report, which identified no more than 57 Biden-era censorship initiatives. As detailed in censorship initiative #23, CISA and other agencies formed the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) with academic institutions for recent elections starting in 2020. EIP aimed to search and flag posts on subjects such as mail-in balloting and Zuckerbucks, pressuring Big Tech companies to censor the posts. CISA Directors Easterly and Chris Krebs were involved in these efforts.
Before You Go: Learn About Biden’s 57 Censorship Initiatives Exposed by MRC
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