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Zuckerberg Reveals Free Speech Under Siege by Feds

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Posted: Sep 06, 2022 10:19 AM

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Have you ever wondered why your social media post was taken down or censored? Of course, you might quickly blame Big Tech and its ever-changing policies that sometimes border on the absurd. But, in reality, a much bigger organization often dictates censorship — the American federal government.In a shocking reveal on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told millions of viewers that the FBI had asked Facebook, during the heat of the 2020 election race, to censor the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, suspecting it was Russian disinformation.But the FBI’s role may be just the tip of the iceberg. For all of its flaws, the FBI at least is bound by law to require a law enforcement or counterintelligence basis for engaging with tech companies on social media. So there are only so many stories, or news cycles, that can be systematically subjected to government pressure from the FBI.But it’s not only the FBI encouraging Big Tech to censor free speech. You might not know that a relatively new government entity is involved in “countering disinformation” and has few restrictions on how it operates. And since 2019, it has been using your taxpayer dollars to limit your ability to freely express your politics and views on social media. That entity is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And more specifically, an obscure government agency that was newly created by an act of Congress in November 2018, which goes by its acronym CISA (“Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency”).As their YouTube channel shows, the agency explicitly coordinates w …

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