'I'm deeply concerned about [this], and it fits with a horizontal pattern across the enterprise of government to try to shape how people digest information,' RepMattGaetz told the Washington Examiner's gekaminsky.
This is part of a Washington Examiner investigative series on self-styled"disinformation" tracking groups that are blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media outlets. Here is where you can read stories in the series.
"I'm going to focus my time on the weaponization subcommittee on these matters. This direct assault on the First Amendment and the ways in which the exquisite powers of the government has been merged with the capabilities of technology to constrain rights that Americans have long held close and cherished," said Gaetz.
"This issue is obviously concerning to Chairman Jordan, and the weaponization committee will look into the government’s role in the suppression of the First Amendment," Russell Dye, a spokesman for Jordan, chairman of the subcommittee and the House Judiciary Committee, told the Washington Examiner. "Freedom of speech and the press are core American values and must be protected against radical progressives seeking to censor opinions and facts that don’t fit their political narrative," Rep. James Comer told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday, noting that the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which he chairs,"will press the Biden administration for answers about this attack on the First Amendment.
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