President Barack Obama

Tom Olohan | June 23, 2025

Former President Barack Obama had some harsh criticism for Big Tech platforms that allow free speech, while delivering remarks at the June 17 Connecticut Forum.

Tim Kilcullen | March 11, 2025

The Biden administration tried to annihilate the First Amendment through lawfare.

Under President Joe Biden, the Department of Justice (DOJ) pursued prosecutions based on constitutionally protected speech. While several of the people…

Catherine Salgado | March 15, 2023

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has ties to pro-censorship President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is arguing against individual privacy and anonymity on AI platforms.

Catherine Salgado | June 10, 2022

Former President -- and author of the 2013 PolitiFact Lie of the Year -- Barack Obama did not miss the opportunity at the 2022 Copenhagen Democracy Summit to call for more censorship, asserting we must “detoxify our discourse.”

Catherine Salgado | April 22, 2022

PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year” winner Barack Obama, former president of the United States, decried that “People are dying because of misinformation,” during an April 21 speech at Stanford University.