(TheProudRepublic.com) – The House Judiciary Committee has identified several Biden-Harris administration officials who pushed Facebook and its parent company, Meta, to enforce a “censorship regime” on Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA) mentioned that some of these names are already public.
However, he emphasized, “I think there’s still more to be uncovered. And ultimately, I think it goes to the very top of the administration.”
He added, “This was a censorship regime that emanated from the Biden and Harris administration. And there needs to be political accountability for that.”
This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee that the Biden-Harris administration had pressured his company to suppress COVID-19 content, including posts meant as humor or satire.
Kiley, who is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, stated, “For an administration that just loves to talk about threats to democracy, this is the ultimate threat to democracy.”
He continued, “You can’t have a functioning democracy without freedom of speech. You can’t have a functioning democracy in which the existing regime uses its power to silence dissent and to silence political opponents.”
“And yet,” he added, “that’s precisely what this administration did.”
Likewise, the Committee has conducted multiple interviews and depositions with Meta officials, uncovering evidence that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly called on the social media giant to remove numerous posts.
Kiley explained, “There was obviously an implicit threat there in terms of what they were doing, which is a textbook violation of the First Amendment.”
Moreover, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is pushing a bill that “will establish very clear consequences for those in the bureaucracy who violate the free speech rights of Americans.”
Kiley concluded by saying, “You have now very clear testimony from none other than Mark Zuckerberg that the Biden administration unleashed an unprecedented censorship regime over the course of his administration.”
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