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James Thomas

Is the EU really censoring Americans, interfering in elections and targeting conservative content?

The EU has been carrying out a decade-long campaign to censor American free speech and infringe on their rights by pressuring major social media platforms in secretive meetings to change their global content moderation rules, according to US Republican lawmakers.

In a report by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee entitled 'The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II', US politicians claim that European Commission officials aggressively pressured social media networks to censor content — particularly American and conservative publications — under the false guise of combating bigotry and fake news.

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