August 26, 2022, 8:00am
MAJOR UPDATE: Missouri AG Schmitt’s Lawsuit FORCES Zuckerberg to ADMIT the FBI TOLD FACEBOOK TO CENSOR THE BIDEN LAPTOP During the 2020 Election

Mark Zuckerberg admits to Joe Rogan FBI requested Facebook censor Hunter Biden laptop story.

This is a MASSIVE win for Free Speech and against Big Tech Censorship.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported in May that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) against the Biden Administration, including Biden himself, Anthony Fauci, the Department of Homeland Security, and nearly a dozen federal agencies and Secretaries.

The suit alleges a massive coordinated effort by the Deep State to work with Big Tech to censor and manipulate Americans – from average citizens to news outlets – on issues including the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, 2020 Election Integrity, COVID-19 origin and extent skepticism, COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, among other issues.

Here’s a copy of the First Amended Complaint below:

The plantiffs in the case include:

STATE OF MISSOURI ex rel. ERIC S.
SCHMITT, Attorney General,

STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. JEFFREY
M. LANDRY, Attorney General,

DR. JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA,

JILL HINES,

JIM HOFT,

DR. AARON KHERIATY, and

DR. MARTIN KULLDORFF

The defendants in the case include:

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., in his official
capacity as President of the United States;

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, in her official
capacity as White House Press Secretary;

VIVEK H. MURTHY, in his official
capacity of Surgeon General of the United
States;

XAVIER BECERRA, in his official
capacity as Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services;

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES;

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, in his official
capacity as Director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as
Chief Medical Advisor to the President;

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY
AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
AND PREVENTION;

CAROL Y. CRAWFORD, in her official
capacity as Chief of the Digital Media
Branch of the Division of Public Affairs
within the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention;

UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU,
a.k.a. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS;
JENNIFER SHOPKORN, in her official
capacity as Senior Advisor for Communications with the U.S. Census
Bureau;

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE;

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, in his official
capacity as Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security;

ROBERT SILVERS, in his official capacity
as Under Secretary of the Office of
Strategy, Policy, and Plans, within DHS;

SAMANTHA VINOGRAD, in her official
capacity as Senior Counselor for National
Security in the Office of the Secretary for
DHS;

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY;

JEN EASTERLY, in her official capacity as
Director of the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency;

CYBERSECURITY AND
INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY
AGENCY;

GINA McCARTHY, in her official capacity
as White House National Climate
Advisor, and NINA JANKOWICZ, in her official
capacity as director of the so-called
“Disinformation Governance Board” within
the Department of Homeland Security,

First Amended Complaint States of Missouri, Louisiana, Bhattacharya, Hines, Hoft, Kheriaty, and Kulldorff by Jim Hoft on

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1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION STATE OF MISSOURI ex rel. ERIC S. SCHMITT, Attorney General, STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. JEFFREYM. LANDRY, Attorney General, DR. JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA
JILL HINES, JIM HOFT, DR. AARON KHERIATY, and DR. MARTIN KULLDORFF, Plaintiffs, v. JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., in his official capacity as President of the United States ;KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, in her official capacity as White House Press Secretary; VIVEK H. MURTHY, in his official capacity of Surgeon General of the United States; XAVIER BECERRA, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANDHUMAN SERVICES;DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, in his official capacity as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as Chief Medical Advisor to the President; No. 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 45 Filed 08/02/22 Page 1 of 118 Page ID #: 1680

2 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGYAND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION;CAROL Y. CRAWFORD, in her official capacity as Chief of the Digital Media Branch of the Division of Public Affairs within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU, a.k.a. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS;JENNIFER SHOPKORN, in her official capacity as Senior Advisor for Communications with the U.S. Census Bureau; DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE;ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; ROBERT SILVERS, in his official capacity as Under Secretary of the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, within DHS;SAMANTHA VINOGRAD, in her official capacity as Senior Counselor for National Security in the Office of the Secretary for DHS; DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY;JEN EASTERLY, in her official capacity as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; CYBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AGENCY; Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 45 Filed 08/02/22 Page 2 of 118 Page ID #: 1681

3 GINA Mc CARTHY, in her official capacity as White House National Climate Advisor, and NINA JANKOWICZ, in her official capacity as director of the so-called “ Disinformation " Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security, Defendants. FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT NATURE OF THE ACTION1. In 1783, George Washington warned that if “the Freedom of Speech may be taken away,” then “dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.” George Washington, Address to the Officers of the Army (March 15, 1783). The freedom of speech in the United States now faces one of its greatest assaults by federal government officials in the Nation’s history. 2. A private entity violates the First Amendment“if the government coerces or induces it to take action the government itself would not be permitted to do, such as censor expression of a lawful viewpoint.” Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Univ., 141 S. Ct. 1220,1226 (2021) (Thomas, J., concurring). “The government cannot accomplish through threats of adverse government action what the Constitution prohibits it from doing directly.” Id. 3. That is exactly what has occurred over the past several years, beginning with express and implied threats from government officials and culminating in the Biden Administration’s open and explicit censorship programs. Having threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials in the Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social-media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and “malinformation.” Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 45 Filed 08/02/22 Page 3 of 118 Page ID #: 1682

44. The aggressive censorship that Defendants have procured constitutes government action for at least five reasons: (1) absent federal intervention, common-law and statutory doctrines, as well as voluntary conduct and natural free-market forces, would have restrained the emergence of censorship and suppression of speech of disfavored speakers, content, and viewpoint on social media; and yet (2) through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) and other actions, the federal government subsidized, fostered, encouraged, and empowered the creation of a small number of massive social-media companies with disproportionate ability to censor and suppress speech on the basis of speaker, content, and viewpoint; (3) such inducements as Section230 and other legal benefits (such as the absence of antitrust enforcement) constitute an immensely valuable benefit to social-media platforms and incentive to do the bidding of federal officials; (4)federal officials — including, most notably, certain Defendants herein — have repeatedly and aggressively threatened to remove these legal benefits and impose other adverse consequences on social-media platforms if they do not aggressively censor and suppress disfavored speakers, content, and viewpoints on their platforms; and (5) Defendants herein, colluding and coordinating with each other, have also directly coordinated and colluded with social-media platforms toidentify disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content and thus have procured the actual censorship and suppression of the freedom of speech. These factors are both individually and collectively sufficient to establish government action in the censorship and suppression of social-media speech, especially given the inherent power imbalance: not only do the government actors here have the power to penalize noncompliant companies, but they have threatened to exercise that authority.5. Defendants’ campaign of censorship includes the recent announcement of the creation ofa “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security. “Our constitutional tradition stands against the idea that we need Oceania’s Ministry of Truth. ” United Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 45 Filed 08/02/22 Page 4 of 118 Page ID #: 1683
5 States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 728 (2012) (plurality op.). Likewise, our constitutional tradition stands against the idea that we need a “Disinformation Governance Board” within our federal domestic-security apparatus. 6. Just last week, email correspondence between the CDC, the Census Bureau, and major social-media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube was released that reveals yet more evidence that Defendants are directing social media censorship.7. As a direct result of these actions, there has been an unprecedented rise of censorship and suppression of free speech — including core political speech — on social-media platforms. Many viewpoints and speakers have been unlawfully and unconstitutionally silenced in the modern public square. These actions gravely threaten the fundamental right of free speech and freed is course for virtually all citizens in Missouri, Louisiana, and America, both on social media and elsewhere. And they have directly impacted individual Plaintiffs in this case, all of whom have been censored and/or shadow banned as a result of Defendants’ actions. JURISDICTION AND VENUE8. This Court has subject-matter jurisdiction because the federal claims arise under the Constitution and laws of the United States.9. Venue is proper in this District under 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b)(2) because a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred in this District. PARTIES A. Plaintiffs.10. Plaintiff State of Missouri is a sovereign State of the United States of America. Missouri sues to vindicate its sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and proprietary interests. Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 45 Filed 08/02/22 Page 5 of 118 Page ID #: 1684
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In June, The Gateway Pundit began assisting Missouri AG Schmitt’s team and providing critical evidence of Facebook and Twitter censorship of the Gateway Pundit on all of these issues.

This evidence was submitted to the Louisiana Federal Court. See it here:

1IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANAMONROE DIVISIONSTATE OF MISSOURI ex rel. ERIC S. SCHMITT, Attorney General, and STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. JEFFREYM. LANDRY, Attorney General, Plaintiffs, v. JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., in his official capacity as President of the United States, etal.; Defendants. Case No. 3:22-cv-01213DECLARATION OF JIM HOFT1. My name is Jim Hoft. I am over the age of 18 years and competent to testify about the matters discussed herein.2. I am the founder, owner, and operator of the popular news website The Gateway Pundit(“GP”), gatewaypundit.com. I reside in St. Louis, Missouri, and operate the website from there. The “Gateway” refers to St. Louis’s Gateway Arch. Since its founding in 2004, the Gateway Pundit has grown from a one-man blog to one of the internet’s largest destinations for conservative news and commentary. In 2021, The Gateway Pundit was ranked fourth on a list of top ten conservative news websites, ranked by monthly web searches, with over 2 million searches permonth.3. In connection with The Gateway Pundit, I maintain and operate The Gateway Pundit’s social-media accounts, including accounts with Twitter (which has been permanently suspended), Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. These accounts have or had hundreds of thousands of Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 10-5 Filed 06/14/22 Page 1 of 61 Page ID #: 1109

2 followers. In particular, GP’s Twitter account had over 400,000 followers before it was suspended. GP’s Facebook account has over 650,000 followers. GP’s Instagram account has over 205,000 followers. GP’s YouTube account has over 98,000 followers. Because I am based in Missouri, I know that many of these followers include many residents of Missouri. Based on the large numbers of followers and the nationwide prominence of GP, I am certain that they include large numbers of residents of Louisiana as well.4. GP’s social media accounts have experienced censorship on all major social-media platforms, including its speech regarding COVID-19 issues and election security. In many instances, we have noticed that this censorship has followed and reflected the calls for censorship from federal government officials, including in the Biden Administration.5. For example, the current Administration has repeatedly called for censorship of social-media speech regarding election integrity and so-called “COVID-19 misinformation. ”GP has experienced significant social-media censorship regarding its speech on both of those issues, including on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.6. Twitter. On or about January 2, 2021, Twitter suspended GP’s Twitter account (@gatewaypundit) after it posted a tweet that stated,

“Then It’s Not a Vaccine: Crazy Dr. Fauci Says Early COVID Vaccines Will Only Prevent Symptoms and NOT Block the Infection …What? Via @gatewaypundit.”1 7. On or about January 29, 2021, Twitter suspended GP’s Twitter account again after it posted a tweet that stated, “Five Days After Biden Inauguration, Judge Rules Late Changes To VA1 Discussed more fully at Jim Hoft, “Gateway Pundit Suspended on Twitter for 12 Hours for Posting on Dr. Fauci’s Crazy Statement on Vaccines.” Gateway Pundit, (Janaury 2, 2021)(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/gateway-pundit-suspended-twitter-12-hours-posting-dr-faucis-crazy-statement-vaccines/) (last accessed May 31, 2022) Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 10-5 Filed 06/14/22 Page 2 of 61 PageID #: 1110

3 Election Law That Allowed Late Mail-In Ballots Without Postmark To Be Counted is ILLEGAL@100 perc FEDUP via @gateway pundit.”2 8. On or around February 6, 2021, GP’s Twitter account was permanently banned after it posted video footage from security cameras in the TCF Center in Detroit from Election Night 2020 that showed two deliveries of vans driving to the building around 3:30 am in the morning bringing shipments of first more than 50 boxes, and then, roughly one hour later, more boxes of ballots.3 In connection with this video, GP tweeted “Just an FYI – The fake news media and others challenged our TCF Center video report from Friday. That was a bad move. We have much more coming!” Promptly after this tweet, GP’s Twitter account was permanently suspended, preventing us from tweeting the additional content to our 400,000+ followers.9. On or about August 29, 2020, my brother, Joe Hoft, who blogs for GP, tweeted (@joehoft) a series of posts indicating that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted because the counts include deaths of people who died with COVID-19, not just those who died because of COVID-19. Dr. Fauci, among others, has subsequently acknowledged the truth of this assertion. These tweets went viral and were heavily re-tweeted, including by President Trump. By my recollection, as a result of these tweets, Twitter partially censored @joehoft by posting public advisories within his tweet, “warning” the public that the tweet was misinformation. 2 Discussed more fully at Jim Hof t, “Twitter Suspends Gateway Pundit for Posting Virginia Court Ruling on Virginia Mail-in Ballots

- Claims the Court Ruling Incites Violence!” Gateway Pundit (January 29, 2021)(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/twitter-suspends-gateway-pundit-account-posting-virginia-court-ruling-virginia-mail-ballots-claims-court-ruling-incites-violence/) (last accessed May 31, 2022).

3 See Jim Hoft, “Breaking: Twitter Indefinitely Suspends Gateway Pundit Account After We Announce More Video of TCF Center Fraud Will Be Released in Coming Days.” Gateway Pundit (February 6, 2021)

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/gateway-pundit-suspended-twitter-announcing-video-tcf-center-fraud-will-released-coming-days/)

(last accessed May 31, 2022), see also Jim Hoft, “Exclusive: The TCF Center Election Fraud – Newly Discovered Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Tens of Thousands of Illegal Ballots 8 Hours After Deadline.” Gateway Pundit (February 5, 2021)

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/exclusive-tcf-center-election-fraud-newly-recovered-video-shows-late-night-deliveries-tens-thousands-illegal-ballots-michigan-arena/) (last accessed May 31, 2022). Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 10-5 Filed 06/14/22 Page 3 of 61 Page ID #: 1111

410. On or about December 31, 2020, my brother, Joe Hoft, who blogs for GP, tweeted(@joehoft) tweeted content related to Hunter Biden’s laptop, stating “Where’s Hunter? How is Hunter Biden Celebrating the New Year? New Photos of Hunter Biden Pushing Drugs on Women Emerge via @gatewaypundit [link 4]” Twitter suspended the account on the ground that he “Violat[ed] our rules against posting or sharing privately produced/ distributed intimate media of someone without their express consent.”5 11. Facebook. During 2020 and 2021, we experienced repeated instances of censorship by Facebook, including our content related to COVID-19 and election security. Facebook frequently imposed warning labels and other restrictions on our content, particularly content related to election integrity and COVID-19. Facebook’s censorship was so aggressive that I was forced to hire an assistant to monitor and address censorship on Facebook.

12. Specific examples of such censorship by Facebook include the following articles: a. Joe Hoft, “Shock Report: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone – Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/shock-report-week-cdc-quietly-updated-covid-19-numbers-9210-americans-died-covid-19-alone-rest-serious-illnesses/
(published Aug.29, 2020) (last accessed May 31, 2022).

4 Joe Hoft, “Where’s Hunter? How is Hunter Biden Celebrating the New Year? New Photos Emerge of Hunter Biden Pushing Drugs on Women.” Gateway Pundit (December 31, 2020)

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/hunter-hunter-biden-celebrating-new-year-new-photos-hunter-biden- pushing-drugs-women-emerge/) (last accessed May 31, 2022).

5 Discussed more fully at Joe Hoft, “Twitter Suspends TGP’s Joe Hoft After Sharing FACTUAL REPORT on Hunter Biden’s Serial Sex and Crack Escapades.” Gateway Pundit (January 4, 2021)

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/twitter-suspends-tgps-joe-hoft-sharing-factual-report-hunter-bidens-serial-sex-crack-escapades/) (last accessed May 31, 2022). Case 3:22-cv-01213-TAD-KDM Document 10-5 Filed 06/14/22 Page 4 of 61 Page ID #: 1112

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The case reached a CRUCIAL turning point in July, when AG Schmitt and his team won a huge victory. They persuaded the federal judge to grant them limited discovery (investigatory powers) BEFORE the Court would decide the government defendants’ collective motion to dismiss this case.

We wrote about it here.

This allowed AG Schmitt to compel the government AND FACEBOOK AND TWITTER and a few other social media platforms to turn over documents and communications exchanged between the government and the social media platforms, in which censorship was discussed.

In August, we reported that TGP’s Jim Hoft himself became the lead non-governmental plaintiff in the lawsuit against the government.

Announcement: The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft Elevated to Lead Plaintiff in State of Missouri and State of Louisiana Lawsuit vs. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. et al.

St. Louis, MO (August 11, 2022) – Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit is a key plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the State of Missouri. State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., 3:22-cv-01213. The lawsuit alleges that the public statements, emails, and recently released documents, establish that … Continue reading...
Announcement: The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft Elevated to Lead Plaintiff in State of Missouri and State of Louisiana Lawsuit vs. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. et al.
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Since then, the AG Schmitt’s team has been engaged in a slug-fest with the government and Big Tech to turn over the demanded documents. Neither the government nor Big Tech want to disclose the damning evidence against them, and they’ve fought like hell to stop the disclosure.

However: THEY’RE LOSING. FREEDOM IS WINNING.

Yesterday, Joe Rogan interviewed Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. During the interview, Zuckerberg casually admitted that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story for 7 days following a request from the FBI to censor election “misinformation.”

Zuckerberg’s admission is a turning point in the battle for the preservation of the First Amendment and Free Speech in America. It’s a political and legal earthquake.

NOW, the government’s collusion with Big Tech to censor American’s is decisively NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY, but conspiracy FACT. And we know this because billionaire boy god Zuckerberg admitted it himself.

But why would Zuckerberg admit this? Because he’s being forced to turn over documents in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, and the efforts of the Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys General.

He and his pathetic PR team are trying to get ahead of the news cycle on this. But he has failed.

This admission will eventually prove to be the death knell of previously unstoppable Big Tech censorship.

Mark this date on your calendars, it is the day the tide began to turn in the biggest battle for the First Amendment in American history.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/major-update-missouri-ag-schmitts-lawsuit-forces-zuckerberg-admit-fbi-told-facebook-censor-biden-laptop-2020-election/