Nov 25, 2022
There have been reports in recent weeks about a setup that appeared during the runup to the 2020 election, where a multitude of government operations had access to various private foundations. The government units would complain to the foundations about views on social media they found offensive, or with which they disagreed, and the foundations then would lobby social media companies to suppress those views. It appeared to be in conjunction with the decision by the FBI to interfere in the election by telling social media to suppress "Russian disinformation," when it wasn't disinformation at all but accurate reporting about scandals involving overseas payments to the Biden family. Columnist Miranda Devine at the New York Post confirmed that, "So far, 67 officials or agencies - including the FBI - have been accused" of those apparent First Amendment violations. if( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict != 'undefined' ) if(