A federal government agency set up to protect cybersecurity and critical infrastructure tried to cover up its domestic censorship practices, according to an interim report released by the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The report released on Monday sheds light on the concerning nexus among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Big Tech companies, and government-funded third parties. CISA is a little-known agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Previously undisclosed, nonpublic documents have revealed that CISA acted beyond its power to surveil speech on social media and colluded with Big Tech companies like Twitter and government-funded third parties to “censor by proxy.” Messages presented in the report show that CISA then tried to conceal its “plainly unconstitutional activities” from the public….