Silencing a Nation: Biden’s COVID Censorship Machine
The Biden White House and Big Tech: A Coordinated Effort to Silence Americans
The lesson is plain: free speech has to be defended all the time, not just when it fits a preferred narrative. The hypocrisy is glaring, so thick you could cut it with a knife, yet somehow it still doesn’t sink in.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration crossed a line no American government should ever cross. Instead of trusting citizens with open debate and the free flow of ideas, the White House leaned heavily on Big Tech companies like Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter (now X) to silence Americans who questioned the official narrative. What unfolded was not “requests” or “suggestions”, it was government pressure that led to outright censorship.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, admitted this himself in a 2023 letter to Congress. “Senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire,” Zuckerberg wrote. He went further: “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret we were not more outspoken about it.” Those words, from the head of the world’s largest social media company, are not speculation. They are an admission under oath that government pressure directly influenced what Americans were allowed to say and see.
Evidence uncovered in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit made the coordination crystal clear. Internal emails showed White House officials flagging specific posts and accounts for removal. Rob Flaherty, then the White House’s director of digital strategy, was at the center of this. Despite his later testimony to Congress claiming, “There were no threats, period,” the documents tell a different story. Flaherty and others emailed and called platform executives repeatedly, demanding action on posts that the administration disliked. When the federal government is contacting private companies daily to “flag” speech, it ceases to be voluntary. That is coercion.
The courts recognized how serious this was. A federal district judge found that Biden officials had engaged in what he described as “arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later upheld much of that ruling, finding that the administration’s actions likely crossed the constitutional line into government censorship. Even the Supreme Court, while focusing on standing in Murthy v. Missouri, could not avoid noting the sheer volume and intensity of White House pressure.
Twitter’s history further exposes the problem. Under oath in 2018, then-CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress, “We do not shadowban anyone based on political ideology.” Yet the “Twitter Files,” released after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company, showed that government-linked “requests” to throttle or remove content were commonplace, especially surrounding COVID and later political speech. Once again, Americans were misled while their voices were quietly suppressed.
The hypocrisy is staggering. Today, many on the left rage about “freedom of speech” because Jimmy Kimmel lost his show after making offensive remarks. Yet these same voices stayed silent, or worse, cheered, while the Biden White House pressured Big Tech to erase opinions, satire, and scientific debate during COVID. If freedom of speech matters, it cannot only apply when it’s convenient for one side.
This episode should alarm every American, regardless of political persuasion. The government has no business dictating what jokes we can tell, what opinions we can share, or what debates we can have. The First Amendment was written precisely to protect citizens from this kind of overreach. The Biden administration trampled that principle in the name of “safety,” and too many on the left looked away because it suited their politics.
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