Commentary
A censorship consortium working with the Department of Homeland Security targeted The Epoch Times and other independent media during the 2020 election cycle.
According to a forthcoming report from the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), the government agency outsourced censorship to private sector partners, including federally funded universities, that pressured social media platforms to shut down press outlets including Fox News, the New York Post, the Washington Times, Breitbart, Just the News, and Newsmax, for critical news and analysis concerning the integrity of the 2020 election.
Further, according to FFO Executive Director Mike Benz, after Joe Biden’s November 2020 victory, the government rewarded its private-sector censorship partners with millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in federal grants. The same consortium is already active in shaping the 2022 election cycle. The DHS-backed consortium, says Benz, has “systematized the censorship in a way that a free society cannot survive if this thing does.”…