{"id":2390914,"date":"2025-01-15T22:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:14:07","slug":"biden-exits-office-promoting-the-censorship-that-got-him-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Exits Office Promoting The Censorship That Got Him Elected"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-exits-office-promoting-the-censorship-that-got-him-elected%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=2390914&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 article\u2062 discusses Joe \u2062Biden&#8217;s\u200b final address as president, where\u200d he <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a><\/a> for abandoning their &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; practices, suggesting\u2062 these changes \u2062threaten democracy.He\u2063 argued for holding social platforms \u200daccountable to protect free speech and\u200b democracy, claiming that \u2063misleading details is detrimental \u200cto society. Biden&#8217;s\u2063 comments\u2064 were seen as hypocritical since his electoral success was partly aided by Big\u200c Tech&#8217;s censorship of stories, especially concerning the hunter Biden laptop \u200dscandal, which curtailed information from reaching voters before the 2020 election. The \u2064article suggests that\u200b this\u200b censorship has had significant implications \u200cfor free \u200bspeech \u200cand the electoral process, emphasizing a broader \u200dconcern about government collaboration with tech companies to suppress dissenting views, particularly relating\u200d to Covid\u200b narratives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J0FEi8Jh5KI\">Associated Press\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-big-tech-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Biden%20Exits%20Office%20Promoting%20The%20Big%20Tech%20Censorship%20That%20Got%20Him%20Elected&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-big-tech-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Biden%20Exits%20Office%20Promoting%20The%20Big%20Tech%20Censorship%20That%20Got%20Him%20Elected&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-big-tech-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-big-tech-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Biden%20Exits%20Office%20Promoting%20The%20Big%20Tech%20Censorship%20That%20Got%20Him%20Elected&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/biden-exits-office-promoting-the-big-tech-censorship-that-got-him-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden is ending his disastrous presidency the way he started it: by promoting the mass censorship of Americans&rsquo; free speech.<\/p>\n<p>During his fumbling Wednesday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J0FEi8Jh5KI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Farewell Address<\/a>, the Democrat commander-in-chief bemoaned decisions by social media companies to forgo biased, left-wing &ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo; that are often used to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/were-still-waiting-for-facebook-to-atone-for-the-11-times-we-know-of-it-censored-the-federalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censor<\/a> users&rsquo; free speech to the benefit of Democrats. The comments appear to be in reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/zuckerberg-owes-restitution-to-those-he-tried-to-destroy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent announcement<\/a> that Facebook and Instagram are dumping such practices in the proclaimed interest of &ldquo;restoring free expression on [their] platforms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1810307008\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies, told for power and for profit,&rdquo; Biden said. &ldquo;We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families, and our very democracy from the abuse of power.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"IQtaqdmSFN5uin4eA3UjVfHlRcLGO0hrE\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In his farewell address to the nation, Biden complains that social media companies aren&#8217;t doing enough to censor Americans: &#8220;Social media is giving up on fact-checking! The truth is smothered by lies! We must hold the social platforms accountable.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zSiXxfkSZ5\">pic.twitter.com\/zSiXxfkSZ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theblaze\/status\/1879700260769190364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Got that? It&rsquo;s not the weaponization of so-called &ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo; to silence speech that&rsquo;s the problem &mdash; it&rsquo;s allowing Americans to use their First Amendment rights that&rsquo;s a threat to &ldquo;democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Americans shouldn&rsquo;t find Biden&rsquo;s call for increased Big Tech censorship surprising. After all, it was what helped him get elected president in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>After the New York Post dropped its bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story implicating Joe in his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/biden-family-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">family&rsquo;s foreign business dealings<\/a> weeks before the 2020 election, social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook went into full-on censorship mode. <\/p>\n<p>On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/03\/twitter-files-confirm-big-tech-leftists-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-ahead-of-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, users were not permitted to share the story, even via direct message. The platform further &ldquo;took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be &lsquo;unsafe,&rsquo;&rdquo; as journalist Matt Taibbi revealed in the &ldquo;Twitter Files.&rdquo; Meanwhile, Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/14\/facebook-is-now-officially-censoring-the-new-york-posts-hunter-biden-bombshell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> shortly after the story broke that it would be &ldquo;reducing [the story&rsquo;s] distribution&rdquo; pending verification by third-party &ldquo;fact-checkers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It was later revealed that the FBI &mdash; which <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/22\/fbi-knew-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-authentic-a-year-before-pressuring-big-tech-to-censor-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">authenticated<\/a> the laptop in late 2019 &mdash; pressured these companies in the months leading up to the 2020 contest to censor posts about its content should they arise before the election. Zuckerberg has since <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/08\/mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-get-amnesty-for-his-anti-american-censorship-schemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> Meta&rsquo;s decision to censor the Post&rsquo;s reporting on its platforms was based on the FBI&rsquo;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>The deliberate attempt to prevent Americans from learning about and sharing information on Biden and his family&rsquo;s business ventures could have swayed the outcome of the election, as some polling has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/poll-17-biden-voters-abandoned-knew-stories-media-censored\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested<\/a>. That is not at all inconsequential and demonstrates the serious harm censorship can bring upon society.<\/p>\n<p>But as we&rsquo;ve seen throughout his presidency, neither Biden nor his merry band of Marxists care. Within months of taking office, the administration was busy <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/26\/5-examples-of-the-illegal-government-censorship-scotus-just-allowed-to-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">colluding<\/a> with these same Big Tech companies to censor and remove posts that disagreed with the government&rsquo;s unscientific Covid narratives. It didn&rsquo;t matter whether the post contained accurate information &mdash; what mattered was controlling what Americans could say and read at any given time.  <\/p>\n<p>When the history books are written, Biden will go down as the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-real-legacy-will-be-as-silencer-of-speech\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Real Legacy Will Be As Silencer Of Speech\">anti-free speech president<\/a> to have served in the Oval Office. His administration&rsquo;s obsession with weaponizing any available tool to silence its political opponents and everyday Americans in the name of unfettered power was and is a national disgrace.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. 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In his awkward Farewell Address, he lamented social media companies moving away from biased &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; that often suppress users&#8217; speech to favor Democrats. This follows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s announcement about restoring free expression on Facebook and Instagram by eliminating such practices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2390915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Joe-B.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3620,6371,3728],"class_list":["post-2390914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biden","tag-censorship","tag-election"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Joe-B.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390914","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390918,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390914\/revisions\/2390918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}