Censorship-Industrial Complex

The for-profit censorship giant NewsGuard is now selling its “Misinformation Fingerprints” technology to private companies to silence Americans’ speech — technology the federal government helped NewsGuard develop to the tune of nearly…

House Republicans are taking aim at the Pentagon’s censorship regime in the latest version of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In June, Rep. Richard McCormick, R-Ga., attached an amendment to the annual defense bill to…

Free speech supporters got both good news and bad from the Supreme Court on Friday. The court agreed to look at whether a far-ranging censorship scheme directed by the Biden administration violates the U.S. Constitution. However, the court…

“Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say,” The New York Times proclaimed on Tuesday, following an explosion outside a Gaza hospital. Two sitting congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, quickly spread the story on X,…

The Federal Trade Commission inappropriately pressured an independent third-party auditing firm to find Twitter had violated the terms of its settlement agreement with the FTC, a motion filed last week in federal court reveals. That…

The Censorship-Industrial Complex sees Americans and Americans’ speech as squarely within its purview when it comes to fighting supposed mis- or disinformation, Tuesday’s opinion in Missouri v. Biden revealed. And that should terrify…

The Department of Homeland Security is using hard-earned tax dollars to smear and censor Americans they deem guilty of spreading “mis-, dis-, and malformation,” House Republicans on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight,…

The State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) served as one cornerstone of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, colluding with nongovernmental organizations and tech giants to silence disfavored speech during the 2020 election cycle.…

The members of the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project conspired with government actors to censor speech at Big Tech companies in violation of the First Amendment, a class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges. The case,…

Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet—the speech of journalists, politicians, religious organizations, advocacy groups, and even private citizens. Should those conversations conflict with the…