Brussels 07.02.2026 The EU executive on strongly rejected accusations made in a US congressional report that it had forced social media platforms to censor American content. (Image above: EU Parliament, Strasbourg, France)
The House Judiciary Committee released a interim staff report titled “The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe’s Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet and How it Harms American Speech in the United States.” Nonpublic Big Tech documents produced to the Committee under subpoena reveal that the European Commission successfully pressured major social media platforms to change their global content moderation rules, directly harming American online speech in the United States.
The EU Commission:
– Pressured social media platforms to censor true information in the United States
– Targeted U.S. political content
– Interfered in elections across Europe
This decade-long global censorship campaign threatens free speech worldwide. pic.twitter.com/D3yGpKc7Cc
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 3, 2026
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In more than 100 closed-door meetings since at least 2020, the European Commission—the executive arm of the European Union—repeatedly pressured platforms to change their globally applicable content moderation rules to more aggressively censor content and directly infringe on Americans’ online speech in the United States.
🚨The EU Censorship Files, Part II
For more than a year, the Committee has been warning that European censorship laws threaten U.S. free speech online.
Now, we have proof: Big Tech is censoring Americans’ speech in the U.S., including true information, to comply with Europe’s… pic.twitter.com/Fg0gxzoTxD
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) February 3, 2026
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In response to this pressure campaign, major social media platforms censored true information and political speech about some of the most important policy debates in recent history—including the COVID-19 pandemic, mass migration, and transgender issues, claiming it was combating hate speech and disinformation.
BREAKING: Congress is considering stripping sovereign immunity of EU censorship officials, prohibiting social media from enforcing censorship orders, and enabling private lawsuits against foreign entities, says @Jim_Jordan echoing remarks made by @UnderSecPD and @DarrellIssa pic.twitter.com/AKjfbBJql9
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 5, 2026
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In December 2025, the Commission took its most aggressive censorship step to date, fining X nearly six percent of its worldwide revenue in obvious retaliation for its protection of free speech around the globe. The Commission’s new legislative and regulatory proposals likewise indicate that it is only increasing its efforts to control online speech and regulate outside of the EU’s borders.
Online platforms offer a lot of benefits, which our citizens can best enjoy when we mitigate certain risks.
Think of addictive features, harmful content, and risks to our children, consumers, democracies and electoral processes.
This is why we have the Digital Services Act. ⬇️
— European Commission (@EU_Commission) February 6, 2026
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In October 2025 m ore than 100 free speech experts from around the world today wrote to the European Commission warning that an EU law risks censoring global speech online.
In a letter 113 experts, including a former VP of Yahoo Europe, a former US Senator, and politicians, academics, lawyers and journalists from around the globe, called on the Commission to consult free speech experts as part of its review into the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which will take place by 17 November.
The letter, which was coordinated by free speech legal advocacy organisation ADF International, states: “[The DSA] constructs a pan-European censorship infrastructure with loosely defined boundaries and the potential to suppress legitimate democratic discourse…
The corrupt, incompetent and authoritarian mafia of the EU Commission is violating the Charter of Fundamental Rights on a daily basis : this is how stupid, harmful and authoritarian you became. pic.twitter.com/f7jKxo5Ofe
— Dan Ioan Muresan (@DanIoanMuresan) February 7, 2026
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