Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) launched the ELON Act to audit tech-government collusion to censor.

Rep. Boebert issued a press launch Feb. 9 asserting that she launched the Exposing Lewd Outlays for Social Networking Corporations Act, or the ELON Act, to audit Huge Tech’s collusion with the federal government to censor Individuals. The ELON Act additionally places a yr’s moratorium on FBI funds to tech corporations.

“Huge tech is in mattress with the FBI and different companies to the purpose the place Congress can’t inform the place one ends and the opposite begins,” Boebert mentioned within the launch. “The hundreds of thousands of {dollars} despatched to Twitter that we all know of throughout an election cycle, after they had been on the identical time censoring the Hunter Biden laptop computer from hell, is extremely regarding.” 

Boebert continued. “My invoice, the ELON Act, requires a report from all companies on federal {dollars} despatched to huge tech corporations. My laws additionally locations a one-year moratorium on tax {dollars} going to huge tech corporations,” she defined. “We should expose the incestuous relationship between huge tech and the federal authorities. My invoice does precisely that.”

The press launch cited the Twitter Information revelations that the Justice Division (DOJ) and FBI labored straight with Huge Tech to censor content material, most notably the 2020 New York Put up Hunter Biden laptop computer story. A Media Analysis Heart ballot discovered that Huge Tech censorship of the Hunter scandal helped steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden.

Boebert’s press launch significantly slammed the FBI’s greater than $3.4 million payout to Twitter allegedly to cowl “reimbursement” for the “cheap prices and bills related to their response to a authorized course of.” However Twitter wasn’t the one platform thus reimbursed, per FBI officers.

The congresswoman quoted Elon Musk who tweeted that, “Authorities paid Twitter hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to censor data from the general public.”

The press launch defined that the ELON Act would require the US Comptroller Basic to submit a report on all of the DOJ funds made to Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple since Jan. 1, 2015. The report would then be submitted to the Home Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Intelligence Committees and the Senate Judiciary, Commerce, and Intelligence Committees.

“American tax {dollars} shouldn’t be used to stifle the First Modification,” the press launch insisted. “Congress should examine when and why the FBI was paying off Huge Tech platforms.”

The ELON Act’s cosponsors are Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL-01), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13), Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-09), Byron Donalds (FL-19), Rep. Mary Miller (IL-15), Rep. Eric Burlison (MO-07), Barry Moore (AL-02), Andrew Clyde (GA-09), and Rep. Troy Nehls (TX-22).

Conservatives are below assault. Contact your representatives and demand that authorities companies and Huge Tech be held to account to uphold the First Modification whereas offering transparencyand equal footing for conservatives. When you have been censored, contact us on the Media Analysis Heart contact kind, and assist us maintain Huge Tech accountable.