https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3776629-trump-says-hed-ban-government-from-labeling-speech-as-misinformation/
Trump says he’d ban government from labeling speech as misinformation
Former President Trump said Thursday that he’d ban the U. S. government from labeling any domestic speech as “misinformation” or “disinformation” if he returns to the White House.
“I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation,” Trump said in a pre-taped video shared with the New York Post.
The former president also said he’d fire federal bureaucrats who he perceived to have engaged in domestic censorship.
“Directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are,” he said of those he’d seek to fire.
Trump further pledged to direct the Department of Justice to “aggressively prosecute” the alleged censorship.
Among other initiatives, the former president called for the federal government to break ties with any nonprofits and academic programs that are aimed at tacking mis- and disinformation.
“If any U. S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal of blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more,” he said.
The Biden administration has sought to clamp down on the rampant spread of disinformation, particularly regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
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