Donald Trump on Thursday promised to upend all forms of social media content moderation if he is re-elected, in what he framed as a bid to "reclaim the right to free speech"
Donald Trump is a former president.
In a seven-minute video posted on Truth Social, Trump said if he is re-elected, he would ban any federal agency from colluding with businesses, organizations or people who try to censor any form of information.
The Justice Department would be ordered to investigate all forms of censorship, as well as revocation of federal funding for colleges and universities that moderate their content.
The former president wants Congress to take immediate action to execute his planned investigation by issuing "letters of preservation" to the Biden Administration and big tech companies.
In promoting his agenda, Trump highlighted "bombshell reports" he said "have confirmed that a sinister group of "Silicon Valley tyrants" colluded to "silence the American people"
In the wake of the January 6 riot, Trump filed lawsuits against social media sites for allegedly being biased against conservatives. The New York Post story detailing the contents of a laptop belonging to President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, was removed from the website in the weeks before the internal Musk documents were released. The Post story proved the younger Biden's dealings with a Ukrainian energy company constituted corruption by his father while he was serving as vice president. The documents did not give any new information, but they showed how company officials speculated about whether the laptop's reveal was a result of Russian hacking that violated its anti-hacking policies. In the wake of the release of the files, Trump suggested that parts of the Constitution should be destroyed. He claimed that the Big Tech Companies collaborated with the DNC and the Democrat Party to engage in a wide range of fraudulent activities.
Musk has said he would support a Republican governor in Florida if he were to win the presidency. Musk restored Trump's account along with those of others on the right after taking ownership of the account. He dissolved the Trust and Safety Council and laid off thousands of employees, among other things. In the wake of Musk's takeover, hundreds of other content moderations left the company. The moves have further aligned Musk with the right, and have boosted claims made by Trump that the company hurt his 2020 re- election bid by removing misleading content that appealed to his base.
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