Federal cybersecurity agency accused of trampling on Americans’ First Amendment rights

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The Homeland Security Department is using its division on countering cyberthreats to act as 'speech police,' and is trying to hide that fact, House lawmakers said.

) moved far beyond its original mission of monitoring foreign “disinformation” and has shifted its focus to “misinformation, disinformation and malinformation” originating from domestic sources.actions were “highly troubling,” and in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution, lawmakers on the GOP-led panel said in the report.has transformed into a domestic intelligence and speech-police agency, far exceeding its statutory authority,” they said.

The website that posted the video, the Loudoun County election official noted, “is connected to Parents Against Critical Race Theory.” claimed that the social media platform could independently decide whether to remove or keep the post after being notified by them about a so-called misinformation threat.’s “misinformation” division to remove a tweet and Facebook post from Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, in which he asked, “Why is it only Democrat blue cities that take ‘days’ to count their votes? The rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.

 

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