Biden Administration Censorship Initiatives
President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders.
The Biden administration’s censorship efforts ran the gamut from…
Secretary of State Tony Blinken spearheaded the GEC’s creation of the deceptively-named “The Framework to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation.” The Framework, a formal compact between powerful sovereign nations, called for the funding…
Under President Joe Biden, the National Security Council (NSC) conducted extensive collaboration with the United Kingdom (U.K.)’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), a foreign government censorship agency.
The Biden administration acted swiftly to destroy the “Fair Access Rule,” one of the key free speech protections instituted by his predecessor (and successor).
One of several censorship initiatives conducted out of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency was the process known as “switchboarding.” Both before and after the 2020 election — including well into the Biden administration — CISA would…
Despite its innocuous name, “Track F” of the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Convergence Accelerator was one of the Biden administration’s most ambitious efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) weapons of mass deletion.
Under Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to create a ministry of truth, to be named the “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Board would have coordinated censorship activities…
The Biden administration’s highly touted “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” was written to favor censorship-obsessed Google and its vendetta against open source artificial…
Predating and separate from its ham-fisted efforts to impose artificial intelligence (AI) censorship through official policymaking (see Initiative #7), the Biden administration labored to impose speech codes through partnerships with Big Tech…
As well as running afoul of the First Amendment, the Biden administration’s extensive partnership with AI developers to collude in creating a censorship-minded AI model (see Initiative #8) raised serious antitrust concerns. It is unsurprising,…
The Department of Defense’s intelligence agencies created a censorship algorithm to suppress speech contrary to their agenda. The “Influence Campaign and Sensemaking Awareness” project began as part of a $59.5 million program on informational…
A Media Research Center report detailed the Biden administration’s extensive ties to the censorship outfit NewsGuard, which works with Big Tech firms to cut off access and ad revenue to right-of-center media outlets. Though NewsGuard presented…
The Biden administration encouraged violation of a congressional statute limiting its financing of censorship outfits. After years of funnelling money to so-called arbiters of truth like NewsGuard, Friends of Europe and The Poynter Institute,…
Throughout the Biden administration, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) had an ongoing partnership with the leftist censorship outfit The Poynter Institute. The Poynter Institute runs the International Fact-Checking Network, which…
The partnership with The Poynter Institute was not the extent of the Biden administration’s financial entanglement with censorship outfitters masquerading as “fact checkers.” Through the State Department and the National Science Foundation (NSF…
In addition to lavishing funds on censorship outfits, the Biden administration also labored to put their weapons of mass deletion into American classrooms.
The Biden administration funded domestic censorship by equating Christians, conservatives and the entire Republican Party with militant neo-Nazis.
The Biden administration labored to build more public, international support for censorship by producing elaborate propaganda pieces rebranding the silencing of others as “media literacy” or “resilient media.” This work necessitated frequent,…
In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) rushed to funnel even more money into censorship.
In addition to its work with so-called media literacy firms, the Biden administration also partnered with a variety of other tech-based censorship outfits to silence criticism of its COVID-19 policies. For example, in 2022 alone, the National…
