USA 2020 Elections: Thread

Sun Jul 17 21:46:50 PDT 2022

Big Tech Social Media Fake News being called under
Unconstitutional Influence, will extend to Election Fraud

Judge Orders Discovery To Proceed In Social Media Collusion Lawsuit
Against Biden Administration

https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/08916881989.pdf
https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1546963909185347589
https://ago.mo.gov/home/news/2022/07/12/federal-court-grants-missouri-attorney-general-s-motion-to-collect-discovery-from-government-officials-social-media-companies-in-free-speech-lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/judge-orders-discovery-phase-in-social-media-collusion-lawsuit-against-biden-administration/article_df2275a4-02de-11ed-89e0-ef749bcc95fc.html
https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1547271387261403136
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-white-house-keeps-stoking-covid-fears-ashish-jha-kids-flu-schooling-11654459689

A federal judge has ordered several social media companies to turn
over documents and answer questions within the next 30 days as part of
the discovery phase in a lawsuit brought by the states of Missouri and
Louisiana, which allege that the Biden administration colluded with
tech giants to censor conservatives.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt speaking in front of the U.S.
Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in September 2019.

"A federal court granted our request for discovery & documents from
top ranking Biden officials & social media companies to get to the
bottom of their collusion to suppress & censor free speech," tweeted
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Tuesday, adding "No one has
had the chance to look under the hood before - now we do."

    🚨 BREAKING: A federal court granted our request for discovery &
documents from top ranking Biden officials & social media companies to
get to the bottom of their collusion to suppress & censor free speech.

    No one has had the chance to look under the hood before - now we
do. pic.twitter.com/TzrxtC3piN
    — Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 12, 2022

"In May, Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit against
top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding
with social media giants to suppress freedom of speech on a number of
topics including the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks, and
election integrity," Schmitt said in a Tuesday statement. "Today, the
Court granted our motion for discovery, paving the way for my Office
to gather important documents to get to the bottom of that alleged
collusion – this is a huge development."

ZeroHedge will be very interested to see if there are any further
communications between the government and Twitter regarding our
February 2020 ban for suggesting that Covid-19 may have emerged from a
Wuhan lab, which notably made its way into a FOIA release of Dr.
Anthony Fauci's emails.

    Wow! @zerohedge gets mentioned! @JeremyFarrar pic.twitter.com/OKvo5ekL8G
    — Jess (@uacjess) June 1, 2021

As The Center Square's Joe Mueller writes of the Missouri case:

    The four-count lawsuit alleges the social media companies labeled
content “disinformation” and “misinformation.” The suit contends the
suppression constitutes government action and violates freedom of
speech protected by the First Amendment.

    The lawsuit also alleges the federal government’s actions exceeded
statutory authority and the Department of Health and Human Services
and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violated the
Administrative Procedure Act.

    The AGs also allege a “Disinformation Governance Board” within DHS
pressured social media companies to suppress free speech on:

        The Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election;
        Speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin;
        Speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns; and
        Speech about election integrity and the security of voting by mail.

    After the AGs filed a motion for expedited preliminary
injunction-related discovery, the Biden administration filed an
opposition. The Biden administration argued Louisiana and Missouri
don’t have the authority to bring a parens patria suit – an action to
protect citizens unable to protect themselves – against the federal
government.

"Great news in the Missouri/Louisiana case vs. the Biden
administration's manipulation of social media to censor scientific
speech!" tweeted Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya, an advocate for
scientific transparency whose writing have appeared in the WSJ, and
has joined the plaintiff's side in the suit.

The Biden administration failed to convince the judge that states
can't meet an "injury in fact" standard, defined as "it suffered ‘an
invasion of a legally protected interest’ that is ‘concrete,’
‘particularized,’ and ‘actual or imminent, not conjectural or
hypothetical," according to Center Square. The DOJ argued that there
was no link between alleged injuries to the states and the
government's alleged actions.