Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed social-media platforms to censor COVID-19 information coming from conservative voices starting in May 2021, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, the Daily Caller reported.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted an injunction barring President Joe Biden's administration from contacting tech companies to request the censorship of some users.
If the allegations made by plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States' history," the injunction read. "In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the federal government, and particularly the defendants named here, are alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment's right to free speech."
Doughty cited "substantial evidence" of a far-reaching censorship campaign. He wrote the "evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth'
So hard to see what's prohibited