This is a MASSIVE win for Free Speech and against Big Tech Censorship.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported in May that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) against the Biden Administration, including Biden himself, Anthony Fauci, the Department of Homeland Security, and nearly a dozen federal agencies and Secretaries.
The suit alleges a massive coordinated effort by the Deep State to work with Big Tech to censor and manipulate Americans – from average citizens to news outlets – on issues including the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, 2020 Election Integrity, COVID-19 origin and extent skepticism, COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, among other issues.
Here’s a copy of the First Amended Complaint below:
STATE OF MISSOURI ex rel. ERIC S. SCHMITT, Attorney General,
STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. JEFFREY M. LANDRY, Attorney General,
DR. JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA,
JILL HINES,
JIM HOFT,
DR. AARON KHERIATY, and
DR. MARTIN KULLDORFF
The defendants in the case include:
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., in his official capacity as President of the United States;
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, in her official capacity as White House Press Secretary;
VIVEK H. MURTHY, in his official capacity of Surgeon General of the United States;
XAVIER BECERRA, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services;
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, in his official capacity as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as Chief Medical Advisor to the President;
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES;
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION;
CAROL Y. CRAWFORD, in her official capacity as Chief of the Digital Media Branch of the Division of Public Affairs within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU, a.k.a. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS; JENNIFER SHOPKORN, in her official capacity as Senior Advisor for Communications with the U.S. Census Bureau;
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE;
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security;
ROBERT SILVERS, in his official capacity as Under Secretary of the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, within DHS;
SAMANTHA VINOGRAD, in her official capacity as Senior Counselor for National Security in the Office of the Secretary for DHS;
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY;
JEN EASTERLY, in her official capacity as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency;
CYBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AGENCY;
GINA McCARTHY, in her official capacity as White House National Climate Advisor,and
NINA JANKOWICZ, in her official capacity as director of the so-called “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security,
In June, The Gateway Pundit began assisting Missouri AG Schmitt’s team and providing critical evidence of Facebook and Twitter censorship of the Gateway Pundit on all of these issues.
This evidence was submitted to the Louisiana Federal Court. See it here:
The case reached a CRUCIAL turning point in July, when AG Schmitt and his team won a huge victory. They persuaded the federal judge to grant them limited discovery (investigatory powers) BEFORE the Court would decide the government defendants’ collective motion to dismiss this case.
We wrote about it here.
This allowed AG Schmitt to compel the government AND FACEBOOK AND TWITTER and a few other social media platforms to turn over documents and communications exchanged between the government and the social media platforms, in which censorship was discussed.
In August, we reported that TGP’s Jim Hoft himself became the lead non-governmental plaintiff in the lawsuit against the government.
Since then, the AG Schmitt’s team has been engaged in a slug-fest with the government and Big Tech to turn over the demanded documents. Neither the government nor Big Tech want to disclose the damning evidence against them and they’ve fought like hell to stop the disclosure.
However: THEY’RE LOSING. FREEDOM IS WINNING.
Yesterday, Joe Rogan interviewed Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. During the interview, Zuckerberg casually admitted that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story for 7 days following a request from the FBI to censor election “misinformation.”
Zuckerberg’s admission is a turning point in the battle for the preservation of the First Amendment and Free Speech in America. It’s a political and legal earthquake.
NOW, the government’s collusion with Big Tech to censor American’s is decisively NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY, but conspiracy FACT. And we know this because billionaire boy god Zuckerberg admitted it himself.
But why would Zuckerberg admit this? Because he’s being forced to turn over documents in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, and the efforts of the Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys General.
He and his pathetic PR team are trying to get ahead of the news cycle on this. But he has failed.
This admission will eventually prove to be the death knell of previously unstoppable Big Tech censorship.
Story cited here.