Americans have grown increasingly anxious in recent weeks over mounting threats to free expression. New revelations about government influence during COVID-19 show this is not new.

Google and YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet, disclosed Sept. 23 that the Biden administration pressured the company to suppress content that went against the accepted narrative during the pandemic — even when it didn’t violate company policy.

The federal government interfered with how the nation’s dominant search engine and its most widely used online video platform moderated speech.

Alphabet admitted Biden officials leaned on the company to remove posts questioning pandemic policy — even when they didn’t break its rules . In a letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary, Alphabet’s attorneys wrote: “W

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