How U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson helped derail a fight against election lies
- Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson forcefully challenged Mayorkas on the distinction between domestic and foreign speech, gaining attention as a conservative stalwart.
- Johnson's pushback, with other leading Republicans, has led to the scaling back of efforts to counter online disinformation by the federal government and social media companies.
- Due to Republican backlash, the Disinformation Governance Board and DHS agency CISA's interactions with social media companies have ceased, impacting the government's ability to combat online disinformation.
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How U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson helped derail a fight against election lies - Florida Phoenix
Back in July, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. A federal court had recently granted a temporary injunction, in Missouri v. Biden, finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment by coercing social media companies to remove content, related both to elections and the COVID-19 vaccine, that it […]
How Speaker Mike Johnson helped derail a fight against election lies
Back in July, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.A federal court had recently granted a temporary injunction, in Missouri v. Biden, finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment by coercing social media companie...
How U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson helped derail a fight against election lies
Back in July, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. A federal court had recently granted a temporary injunction, in...
How U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson helped derail a fight against election lies
Since 2020, the federal government and social media companies have scaled back their work to counter online disinformation — thanks in part, experts say, to the furious pushback from Johnson and other leading Republicans.
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