As new batches of “Twitter Files” continue to demonstrate the extent to which Big Tech is working with US intelligence agencies to censor and ban those accused of spreading “disinformation,” the former US president has said the revelations “prove that we urgently need my plan to dismantle the illegal censorship regime” in America.
Former US President Donald Trump is calling on leaders in Congress to look into the ways the FBI and other government agencies colluded with Big Tech companies to stifle Americans’ free speech.
“The new Congress should immediately hold hearings to investigate the role of the FBI and other federal agencies in censoring lawful speech,” Trump said in a video message published Wednesday.
“Congressional leaders should promptly issue subpoenas in furtherance of this goal.”
In addition, Trump called for “a 7-year cooling off period before any employee of these powerful agencies is allowed to take a job at a major platform.”
BREAKING: Trump releases new statement slamming the FBI and other agencies for colluding with big tech to censor Americans and violating our first amendment rights.
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— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 11, 2023
The message came just a day after the House of Representatives voted along party lines to create the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, an effort that has drawn comparisons to the famed Church Committee that investigated the CIA in the 1970s.
The panel will probe the extent to which US government agencies worked to “collect, compile, analyze, use, or disseminate information about citizens of the United States, including any unconstitutional, illegal, or unethical activities committed against citizens of the United States.”
Trump’s call to action made frequent reference to the Twitter Files, an ongoing series of reports into collusion between the social media giant and the US government.
Documents published in the course of the mammoth investigation have shown the FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to suspend the accounts of users it accused of violating the platform’s policies.
“As recent reporting shows, the FBI and other rogue agencies have been systematically colluding with former national security officials placed in high positions – at Twitter and, very likely, other companies – to advance their censorship regime” and “steal an election,” Trump noted in his address.

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