Senator Schmitt Probes Biden Department of Homeland Security, FBI on Potential Reprised Efforts to Collude with Social Media Companies to Censor Speech before 2024 Election

WASHINGTON – Recently, Senator Eric Schmitt penned a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray on the Biden Administration’s potential reprised efforts to censor Americans’ protected speech online through collusion with Social Media companies, conceivably violating the First Amendment:

“Given the Biden Administration’s penchant for censoring Americans’ speech in the past, it’s frightening to see the Administration once again ramping up efforts to fight ‘disinformation’ ahead of the election, which has been used to censor speech in the past – take for example the pre-bunking of the Hunter Biden laptop story in the runup to the 2020 election. To ensure this kind of censorship never happens again, I’m demanding answers. I will never give up the fight of protecting Americans’ rights,” said Senator Eric Schmitt.    

BACKGROUND:

Senator Schmitt has a staunch record of legislation defending Americans’ Freedom of Speech and shrinking the power of the administrative state, which includes:

• Senator Schmitt on the Importance of Free Speech.
• Introducing the Censorship Accountability Act.
• Introducing the COLLUDE Act.
• Introducing the ERASER Act .
• Cosponsoring Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) Guidance Out Of Darkness (GOOD) Act. 
• Cosponsoring Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) Public Service Reform Act. 
• Cosponsoring Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. 
• Cosponsoring Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Free Speech Protection Act

Read the letter here.