We’ve seen a lot of concerning censorship efforts on social media by the Biden administration. A recent federal court decision in Missouri v. Biden busted the Biden team big time and imposed a preliminary injunction on them not to illegally censor. It tells you where the Biden team is, as the court noted in denying a stay of the injunction, that the Biden administration is appealing and wants to fight an injunction that only prohibited illegal conduct. Earlier in the week, I reported on a story that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves — the FBI colluded with the Ukrainian spy agency SBU to try to censor U.S. users on social media. The Ukrainians would highlight who they wanted flagged, and then the FBI would lean on the social media companies.
That’s why it’s so gratifying to have Elon Musk in charge of Twitter because he’s spoken out against such collusion and released the Twitter Files, which have shown a lot of the prior bad behavior from Twitter 1.0 before he took over. But that hasn’t made the people on the left happy with him. They don’t seem to like the concept of free speech, which tends to butt up against the narratives that they want to sell.
Now there’s bombshell information about the alleged effort to go after Musk and Twitter by the Biden team.
Ernst & Young (EY) is the independent assessor who was engaged under a consent order between Twitter and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to evaluate Twitter’s privacy, data protection, and information security program. But EY felt that the FTC was improperly trying to influence their assessment of Twitter after Musk took over. XCorp (the name successor entity behind Twitter) has now filed a motion for a protective order against what the FTC has been doing to them and seeking to modify or be freed from the consent order because of such actions against them.