Recently Released Emails Provide More Evidence Of Big Tech-Government Collusion

..."A Documented History of Collusion
This latest document dump is far from the first example of direct collusion between tech companies and government agencies regarding alleged “misinformation”. In July 2021, Judicial Watch announced they had received 2,469 pages of documents from the CDC relating to coordination between Facebook and the CDC regarding the COVID narrative and “misinformation”.

The documents were received in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Judicial Watch was specifically seeking “any and all records of communication between CDC officials and/or employees and employees, agents, and/or representatives of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube concerning, regarding, or relating to COVID-19 related content on company platforms”.

These documents show collusion between the CDC and Big Tech in similar ways to the emails released by the AFL, including regular communication between Big Tech and the U.S. government regarding acceptable messaging, claims of misinformation, and instructions on which content to promote and which to throttle.

There are currently other pending lawsuits seeking to gain access to similar documents in an attempt to further prove the true extent of collaboration between supposedly private companies and the U.S. government. One of these lawsuits was filed by Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana on May 5th.

In early July, a federal court allowed Missouri’s Attorney General to collect discovery documents from the U.S. government and social media companies as part of their lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses various Biden administration officials of colluding with Big Tech to suppress free speech by labeling it “misinformation”. Officials named in the lawsuit include Joe Biden, former Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the shuttered Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board” Nina Jankowicz, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and others.

The lawsuit says these officials worked with Big Tech to censor free speech which led to the “suppression and censorship of truthful information on several topics, including COVID-19”. The complaint also outlines other examples of censorship, including the Hunter Biden laptop story immediately prior to the 2020 Presidential election; content on the COVID-19 lab-leak theory; stories on the efficacy of masks and lockdowns; and speech about election integrity.

The AFL lawsuit will likely not be the last to document clear examples of the erosion of the separation between corporations and government which most Americans believe has existed in the United States since its founding. If there’s any saving grace to these revelations of corporatocracy, perhaps it can be the shattering of the illusion that Big Tech was ever a truly private entity, separate from government influence and partnership.

The cold hard reality is that Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook have an extensive history of partnering with the U.S. government and intelligence community since their founding. The sooner we recognize these facts, the sooner we can recognize that America is not a representative democracy, or a constitutional republic, but an authoritarian oligarchical corporatocracy.

In short, the United States is now the home of open coordination and suppression of unpopular views between government and corporations. Unless this incestuous relationship is dismantled we will continue to experience the incremental loss of privacy, freedom of speech, and bodily autonomy."