Newly installed Sen. Eric Schmitt said he will use his new position to scrutinize Big Tech and its relationship with the government.
a lawsuit in partnership with Louisiana's attorney in an attempt to hold the agencies accountable for what he called free speech violations.
Schmitt said he was newly motivated by the"Twitter Files," a series of posts released by allies of Elon Musk based on internal Twitter documents detailing interactions between the social media platform and federal agencies regarding content moderation. "I think [the Twitter Files] confirms what we knew and what we uncovered in the lawsuit," Schmitt told the. He said findings from the suit confirmed that members of the CDC were regularly communicating with Twitter and Facebook about COVID-19-related misinformation. The suit also discovered that there were regular meetings between Big Tech and FBI agent Elvis Chan over election-related misinformation.
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