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Stated simply, the case showed the feds working directly and through partners with social media companies to get them to take down, algorithmically suppress, and/or discredit with corrective pop-up notes speech or speakers they disapproved of at the level of millions of posts. This often included core political speech — speech germane to real-time policy debates regarding election laws and public health policies.
The Biden administration would codify this effort via its first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. The strategy elevates combatting Wrongthink on a raft of issues to the level of a homeland security imperative.
It suggests that “anti-government or anti-authority extremists” pose a dire threat to the homeland and summons a whole-of-society effort to combat such extremism, including through “accelerating work to contend with an information environment that challenges healthy democratic discourse” and, working to “counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories” that it claims lead to terrorist violence.
To confront “long-term contributors to domestic terrorism,” the administration calls for “enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation often channeled through social media platforms.”