The Daily Wire, The Federalist, and Texas filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, alleging that it funded censorship technology to suppress media with disfavored political opinions.
The lawsuit claims the State Department misused a counterterrorism office to target domestic speech, supporting censorship organizations that restrict conservative media outlets.
The lawsuit seeks to declare the State Department’s actions illegal and prevent future interference with lawful speech. (Trending: Biden Bank Records Reveal Another Massive Bombshell)
It also highlights the government’s funding of organizations aiming to financially cripple media outlets not aligned with its ideological agenda.
It also highlights the State Department’s funding of organizations like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, which aim to limit ad revenue for conservative media.
GDI “was funded and promoted by State Department Defendants,” the lawsuit states.
“State Department Defendants’ active intervention in the news media market to make disfavored media unprofitable thus had devastating consequences to Media Plaintiffs,” reads the lawsuit.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance’s Mark Chenoweth, said “the federal government cannot do indirectly what the First Amendment forbids it from doing directly,” on behalf of the complainants.
According to the lawsuit, “State Department disinformation tools were developed… as tools of warfare… in the context of national security” and “foreign relations,” then “misdirected to be used at home against domestic political opponent.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the fight, asserting that the State Department’s mission to suppress free speech is un-American.
Paxton said he was “proud to lead the fight to save Americans’ precious constitutional rights from Joe Biden’s tyrannical federal government.”
“The State Department’s mission to obliterate the First Amendment is completely un-American,” said Paxton.
Adding, “This agency will not get away with their illegal campaign to silence citizens and publications they disagree with.”
“The Biden administration is illegally funding organizations with the stated goal of financially crippling media outlets whose coverage does not walk in lockstep with the government’s ideological agenda,” wrote The Daily Wire said in the lawsuit.
“We sued the Biden administration before over its unconstitutional vaccine mandate, and we won,” continued the outlet.
Declaring, “This time, we’re suing for our rights, all news organizations’ rights, and the constitutional guarantee of a free press that all Americans deserve.”
The lawsuit argues that the State Department’s actions infringe on constitutional rights and anti-censorship laws.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expressed opposition to the State Department’s alleged campaign to silence dissenting voices and pledged to defend Americans’ constitutional rights.
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