The House Judiciary Committee published a report exposing how a now-shuttered advertising giant with 90 percent control of ad dollars colluded with foreign governments to censor free speech in America.
In a June 27 report, the House Judiciary Committee exposed the Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM), releasing emails that show evidence of collusion and reveal the anti-Trump and anti-free speech animus of the project's leader, GARM co-founder and initiative lead Rob Rakowitz.
GARM is a project of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which controls 90% of the world's advertising dollars. In addition, Rakowitz conspired with Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant and a European Commission official to curb free speech on Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), while actively urging advertisers to abandon the platform.
GARM was disbanded in 2024 following an initial House Judiciary Committee report, which exposed a conspiracy against X. The report included documents detailing the collusion, along with Rakowitz’s celebration of X losing advertising dollars revenue and another GARM official discussing efforts to stigmatize The Daily Wire. Both reports condemned GARM for antitrust violations and highlighted a clear pattern of leveraging their clients’ collective power to extract concessions from companies like Meta and old Twitter.
The emails included in the June 2025 report reveal not only collusive efforts but also discussions with foreign censors. Incredibly, Rakowitz admitted his fear of violating antitrust laws in the same email in which he discussed efforts to get advertisers to drop Twitter: “I have navigated the situation as best as we can in terms of our anticompetitive statues and have gone as close as possible as we can to saying ‘It is unsafe, cease and desist.’"
Elsewhere, Rakowitz detailed how he advised British advertising giant WPP to push GARM standards on Musk, suggesting a passive-aggressive approach to punishing Musk for allowing free speech on the platform.
In one email, he wrote:
“We are also going to make the implementation grids (outdated version attached) go public ahead of the meeting (with a comment period). This way it's not singling Twitter out, but we know where eyes will be. Any moves by Twitter forward or backward (or any platform for that matter) will be visible and highlighted in updates. ‘Hey man, we agree [sic] the standards together, I monitor your progress, it's not my decision to move ad spend.’ This feels damn good.”
Rakowitz also emailed Grant, who had already pressured Musk to censor content for Australians but for everyone in the world. She commanded the censorship of Chris Elston (known as Billboard Chris) and the takedown of videos of a stabbing attack against the wishes of the victim. Rakowitz told her about his desire to see Trump “sidelined” and referred toTrump’s beliefs as “contagion.”
Just moments before, Rakowitz absurdly told Grant how he planned to portray brand safety as “correcting an imperfect marketplace” rather than an assault on free speech. Grant, in turn, asked Rakowitz to share information on how X was responding to GARM’s demands, so she could regulate X accordingly.
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The House Judiciary report also exposed troubling communication between GARM and the European Commission. Rakowitz reportedly discussed Twitter with Prabhat Agarwal, the European Commission’s head of Unit for Platforms at DG Connect, who suggested that GARM use the meeting to pressure the European Commission to push Twitter into making concessions.
Notably, DG Connect was once overseen by the infamous former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who used his position to threaten Musk over a conversation between Musk and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, warning them to avoid certain topics. Breton also pressured X, Meta and TikTok to enforce censorship.
In response to campaigns like GARM’s driving advertisers off X, Musk famously told any advertiser seeking more censorship to “Go f*** yourself.” Musk made these remarks on camera before greeting a prominent advertiser in the audience— Disney CEO Bob Iger.
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