Watchman: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues U.S. State Department for Conspiring to Censor American Media Companies

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues U.S. State Department for Conspiring to Censor U.S. Media Companies

AUSTIN – The state of Texas and media outlets The Daily Wire and The Federalist have sued the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other government officials for engaging in a conspiracy to censor, deplatform and demonetize U.S. media outlets that the federal government disparages.

Through its Global Engagement Center, the State Department actively intervened in the news media market to limit the reach and business viability of domestic news organizations by funding censorship technology and private censorship firms. Congress authorized the creation of the Global Engagement Center expressly to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation. Instead, the agency used this authority as a weapon to violate the First Amendment and suppress Americans’ constitutionally protected expression. The complaint describes the State Department’s project as “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the nation’s history.”

“I am proud to lead the fight to save Americans’ precious constitutional rights from Joe Biden’s tyrannical federal government,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The State Department’s mission to destroy the First Amendment is utterly un-American. This agency will not get away with its illegal campaign to silence citizens and publications it disagrees with.”

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (“NCLA”) is serving as co-counsel. Mark Chenoweth, NCLA president and general counsel, said, “The federal government cannot do indirectly what the First Amendment prohibits it from doing directly. The chilling censorship machinations alleged in this complaint will strike fear into the hearts of all freedom-loving Americans.”

As the lawsuit explains, The Daily Wire, The Federalist and other conservative news organizations “were labeled ‘unreliable’ or ‘risky’ by the government-funded and government-promoted censorship corporations… which deprived them of advertising revenue and reduced the distribution of their reporting and speeches — all as a direct result of the (State Department’s) unlawful censorship scheme.”

To read the complaint, click here.

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