The U.S. Department of Justice settled litigation on Wednesday alleging the Biden administration pressured Twitter to suppress speech by Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who criticized COVID-19 vaccine claims.
The Justice Department said the lawsuit alleged the federal government violated the First Amendment by pressuring the social media company into suppressing “disfavored speech.”
The settlement was announced as part of President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The order states the Biden administration “trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms” through pressure on social media companies to moderate or suppress content….