The bombshell revelation about government's chilling alliance to censor Americans

Journalist Matti Taibbi joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the impact social media censorship can have on free speech following Ireland’s new anti-hate law.

A bombshell revelation demonstrates the chilling lengths the government will go to censor the American people. I wish I could say I’m surprised, but federal officials have been pressuring Big Tech to censor constitutionally protected speech for quite some time. The House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government recently released a report revealing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Global Engagement Center (GEC) coordinated with Stanford University, along with other entities, to censor speech leading up to the 2020 election.

The government created an entity called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to outsource its censorship efforts in an attempt to disguise efforts to violate our First Amendment rights. Under this scheme, government officials and federally funded organizations flagged posts they deemed ‘misinformation’ to EIP analysts, who in turn would flag them for the intended social media platform.

As the report shows, EIP was formed "at the request of DHS/CISA." Although the EIP was intended to hide the federal government’s involvement, the connections are clear. Documents show that CISA had direct access to the EIP’s inner workings, including incoming misinformation reports from the EIP’s centralized reporting system.

Unsurprisingly, the EIP chose to target speech exclusively from Republicans, libertarians, and conservatives. The report from the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of