Free Speech

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…

The NIAID censorship payments from Initiative #19 followed revelations of direct actions that the Biden administration had taken to silence critics of its COVID-19 policies.

White House Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response Andy Slavitt aggressively pressured Amazon to ban books critical of the government’s position on vaccination and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the New York Post. He also insisted Facebook…

The Biden administration’s demands that private businesses silence dissent on the government’s COVID-19 policies were not limited to tech firms. Even Trader Joe’s was expected to uphold the Biden speech codes. 

COVID-19 was not the only subject the Biden administration declared verboten. The administration acted aggressively to suppress concerns related to election integrity. 

In addition to ordering Big Tech to censor its critics, the Biden administration also censored the Big Tech companies themselves from speaking out about its coercion. 

The State Department’s work with a foreign engineer to create what, according to Fox News, was labeled an “Enemies List.” The list targeted those who opposed censorship, such as President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Knowles, Elon…

An MRC report detailed how, under President Joe Biden, the military was used to attack the free speech rights of Americans, chilling future dissent of his authoritarian administration.