{"id":1706650,"date":"2022-10-22T07:38:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706650"},"modified":"2022-10-22T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T11:48:56","slug":"judge-to-allow-states-to-depose-fauci-biden-and-other-officials-in-social-media-censorship-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-to-allow-states-to-depose-fauci-biden-and-other-officials-in-social-media-censorship-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to Allow States to Depose Fauci, Biden, and Other Officials in Social Media Censorship Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fjudge-to-allow-states-to-depose-fauci-biden-and-other-officials-in-social-media-censorship-case%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=1706650&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/original_biden_fauci.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Friday evening, a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/doc-90---order-regarding-witness-depositions.pdf?sfvrsn=24c99caa_2\">granted<\/a> a motion filed by Missouri and Louisiana calling for key figures in the Biden administration to be deposed in regard to the administration\u2019s work with social media platforms to <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-white-house-defends-biden-and-social-media-companies-censoring-americans\/\">suppress<\/a> free speech.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday tweet, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said that the US District Court Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division granted the plaintiffs\u2019 request to depose Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, as well as other Biden Administration officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biden-sued-for-colluding-with-big-tech-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story-covid-19-lab-leak-theory\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed by Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in May, alleges that key figures in the Biden administration, including President Joe Biden himself, &#8220;have colluded with and\/or coerced social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social media platforms by labeling the content &#8216;dis-information,\u2019 &#8216;mis-information,&#8217; and &#8216;mal-information.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They allege that the actions constitute as &#8220;government action,&#8221; and violates freedom of speech as laid out in the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Examples laid out include the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, talk of the Covid-19 lab leak theory, questioning the efficacy of masks, lockdowns, and the legitimacy of the 2020 election, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/flashback-pa-gubernatorial-candidate-josh-shapiro-demanded-big-tech-censor-criticism-of-covid-vaccine\">censorship<\/a> of specific individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/home\/news\/2022\/10\/21\/court-orders-depositions-of-top-biden-officials-in-missouri-ag-s-case\">said Schmitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. 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