The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered an injunction on a major agency within the Department of Homeland Security after finding the alarming influence it had on social media companies to censor “election-related speech.”
The federal court found that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) likely violated the First Amendment by being the “primary facilitator” of the FBI’s interactions with social media platforms to push the platforms to alter their moderation policies.
“CISA used its frequent interactions with social media platforms to push them to adopt more restrictive policies on censoring election-related speech. And CISA officials affirmatively told the platforms whether the content they had ‘switchboarded’ was true or false,” reads the order of the three-judge panel. “Thus, when the platforms acted to censor CISA-switchboarded content, they did not do so independently. Rather, the platforms’ censorship decisions were made under policies that CISA has pressured them into adopting and based on CISA’s determination of the veracity of the flagged information.”
“Thus, CISA likely significantly encouraged the platforms’ content-moderation decisions and thereby violated the First Amendment.”
The federal court extending the scope of the injunction to include CISA is a major development in the lawsuit brought by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general against the Biden administration.
CISA is the government’s central clearinghouse and switchboarding operation for all federal censorship activities, and is described as the nerve center of the White House’s vast censorship enterprise by GOP Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
“CISA was created to protect Americans from foreign attack, and now it has begun targeting its own citizens,” Bailey told Fox News Digital.
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