LOOK OUT: Missouri Asks Court For Discovery In Lawsuit Alleging Collusion Between Feds, Social Media

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced this week that Missouri would move to obtain merits discovery in its lawsuit targeting the Biden-Harris administration for allegedly working with social media giants such as Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to censor and suppress free speech.

A motion for discovery requests the court to compel the opponent to relinquish information; thus, information the Biden-Harris administration may have wanted to conceal would be brought to light.

The lawsuit was originally filed by former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in 2022. Schmitt was elected to the United States Senate in 2023.

“We are moving to obtain merits discovery in Missouri v. Biden to DISMANTLE the Biden-Harris censorship regime once and for all,” Bailey announced on X. “ This lawsuit is for every American who has been censored by our own government. The fight for free speech is just beginning.”

????BREAKING: We are moving to obtain merits discovery in Missouri v. Biden to DISMANTLE the Biden-Harris censorship regime once and for all.

This lawsuit is for every American who has been censored by our own government.

The fight for free speech is just beginning. pic.twitter.com/IuUSvizxZl

— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) September 17, 2024

Great!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2024

The 2022 lawsuit mentioned three instances, among others, where truthful information was censored by the social media companies, including the Hunter Biden laptop story, the lab leak theory that the COVID-19 virus could have been leaked accidentally from a biotech lab in Wuhan, China, and the efficacy of masks, as both Senator Rand Paul and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were censored by YouTube for questioning the efficacy of masks.

“In direct contravention to the First Amendment and freedom of speech, the Biden Administration has been engaged in a pernicious campaign to both pressure social media giants to censor and suppress speech and work directly with those platforms to achieve that censorship in a misguided and Orwellian campaign against ‘misinformation,’” Schmitt said when he filed the lawsuit. “In the lawsuit that Missouri and Louisiana filed today, we allege that government officials in the Biden Administration, including President Biden, Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and others colluded with social media companies like Meta, Twitter, and Youtube to remove truthful information related to the lab-leak theory, the efficacy of masks, election integrity, and more. I will not stand idly by while the Biden Administration attempts to trample on the First Amendment rights of Missourians and Americans.”

“Big Tech has become an extension of Biden’s Big Government, and neither are protecting the freedoms of Americans; rather, they are suppressing truth and demonizing those who think differently,” Landry added. “Ripped from the playbook of Stalin and his ilk, Biden has been colluding with Big Tech to censor free speech and propagandize the masses. We are fighting back to ensure the rule of law and prevent the government from unconstitutional banning, chilling, and stifling of speech.”