{"id":1629746,"date":"2022-09-01T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629746"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:49:19","slug":"were-just-getting-started-gop-attorneys-general-demand-doj-reveal-federal-govts-communications-with-social-media-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-just-getting-started-gop-attorneys-general-demand-doj-reveal-federal-govts-communications-with-social-media-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re Just Getting Started\u2019: GOP Attorneys General Demand DOJ Reveal Federal Gov\u2019t\u2019s Communications With Social Media Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwere-just-getting-started-gop-attorneys-general-demand-doj-reveal-federal-govts-communications-with-social-media-giants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629746&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The man who may become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/missouri\">Missouri<\/a>\u2019s next GOP senator has targeted President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Biden<\/a>\u2019s Department of Justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/home\/news\/2022\/09\/01\/missouri-and-louisiana-attorneys-general-ask-court-to-compel-department-of-justice-to-produce-communications-between-top-officials-and-social-media-companies\">asking a court<\/a> to force the DOJ to reveal communications between high-ranking Biden Administration officials and major social media companies.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, the GOP senatorial candidate, joined Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to file a Joint Statement on Discovery Disputes, to ask the Louisiana District Court to force the communications between officials in the White House and Department of State and major social media companies to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit back in May that seeks to expose how top Biden Administration officials allegedly colluded with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on a number of topics, including COVID-19. We won in court in July, and the Court required the Biden Administration to turn over communications between federal officials and social media companies,\u201d Schmitt stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already received a number of documents that clearly prove that the federal government has an incestuous relationship with social media companies and clearly coordinate to censor freedom of speech, but we\u2019re not done, he continued. \u201cThe Department of Justice is cowering behind executive privilege and has refused to turn over communications between the highest-ranking Biden Administration officials and social media companies. That\u2019s why, yesterday, we asked the Court to compel the Department of Justice to produce those records. We\u2019re just getting started \u2013 stay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs claim a \u201cCensorship Enterprise\u201d was implemented in various federal agencies. They add that although the government identified scores of officials at DHS, CISA, the CDC, NIAID, and the Office of the Surgeon General who had communicated with social media platforms, no information had been disclosed about any federal officials at other federal agencies who had done so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeta, for example, has disclosed that at least 32 federal officials\u2014including senior officials at the FDA, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the White House\u2014have communicated with Meta about content moderation on its platforms, many of whom were not disclosed in response to Plaintiffs\u2019 interrogatories to Defendants,\u201d the statement charged. \u201cYouTube disclosed eleven federal officials engaged in such communications, including officials at the Census Bureau and the White House, many of whom were also not disclosed by Defendants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The joint statement accused the \u201cCensorship Enterprise\u201d \u201crises to the highest levels of the U.S. Government, including numerous White House officials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who may become Missouri\u2019s next GOP senator has targeted President Biden\u2019s Department of Justice, asking a court to force the DOJ to reveal communications between high-ranking Biden Administration officials and major social media companies. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, the GOP senatorial candidate, joined Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to file a Joint &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}