[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 125 (Thursday, July 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H3862-H3863]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CENSORING AND SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, House Republicans are doing everything we can 
to investigate the politicization and weaponization of the Federal 
Government.
  In fact, the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal 
Government heard testimony from New York Post reporter Emma-Jo Morris, 
whose reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop was censored by almost 
every social media platform in the country in coordination with the 
most powerful levers of the Federal Government to silence Americans' 
First Amendment right to free speech.
  Let the record show that Ms. Morris' reporting was factual, as 
confirmed by multiple outlets after the fact, and that this egregious 
abuse of power was so serious and so detrimental to our free society 
that a Federal District Court has enjoined White House and government 
officials from communicating with social media companies for the 
purpose of censoring or suppressing free speech on their platforms.
  Mr. Speaker, these nefarious actions by the White House and Federal 
Government agencies are utterly shameful and, frankly, un-American and 
must never, ever happen again.

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