The Trump administration dealt a massive blow to the censorship “nerve center” of the federal government.
The New York Post announced in a Feb. 14 article that “The Department of Homeland Security is moving to fire 12 employees of a federal cybersecurity agency that policed ‘misinformation’ while pausing ‘all elections security activities’ pending further review of free-speech implications.” The agency implicated, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has already reportedly been shrunk down to size, with the Trump administration cutting 130 total employees so far.
CISA is notorious for having frequently placed pressure on major social media companies to censor content the agency did not approve of. CISA created the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a portal used to communicate with Big Tech and label so-called misinformation and disinformation to be censored by social media companies.
