As Attorneys General Jeff Landry (R-LA) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) have worked to expose the connection between President Joe Biden’s administration and Big Tech, the most recent filing alleging a “disturbing amount of collusion” was updated to add 47 new defendants Monday.

Earlier this year, the Republican AGs had successfully won their landmark lawsuit to begin the discovery process, issuing subpoenas to social media companies and government officials to uncover how they may have worked in tandem to censor speech and news stories.

The latest filing in the case is now seeking depositions of defendants, and in an amended complaint, top-ranking officials added “White House officials Andy Slavitt and Rob Flaherty and WH Counsel Dana Remus, FBI Section Chief for the Foreign Influence Task Force Laura Dehmlow, CDC Deputy Communications Director Kate Galatas,” and others.

”Missouri plans to request depositions of top-ranking officials and have filed a 2nd Amended Complaint adding 47 new defendants to our lawsuit against the fed government for allegedly colluding with social media giants to censor speech,” Schmitt wrote.

Included on the list of new defendants are top White House officials Andy Slavitt and Rob Flaherty and WH Counsel Dana Remus, FBI Section Chief for the Foreign Influence Task Force Laura Dehmlow, CDC Deputy Communications Director Kate Galatas, and other top-ranking officials.

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) October 10, 2022

In a statement, Landry noted, “Throughout this case, we have uncovered a disturbing amount of collusion between Big Tech and Big Government,” and added, “This egregious attack on our First Amendment will be met with an equally full-hearted defense of the rights of the American people.”

Others listed in the suit include Biden, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Nina Jankowicz, known to many as “Scary Poppins” after the Department of Justice had sought to place her in charge of the since terminated Disinformation Governance Board, colloquially dubbed “The Ministry of Truth.”

“Jankowicz has called for more aggressive censorship of election-related speech by social-media platforms,” the lawsuit claimed, “and has implied that social-media censorship of election-related speech should never relent or be reduced.”

“[S]ocial-media platforms are beginning to censor criticisms of the Biden Administration’s attempt to redefine the word ‘recession’ in light of recent news that the U.S. economy has suffered two consecutive quarters of reduction in GDP,” the filing also stated.

“Thus, Defendants’ conduct alleged herein has created, with extraordinary efficacy, a situation where Americans seeking to exercise their core free-speech right to criticize the President of the United States are subject to aggressive prior restraint by private companies acting at the bidding of government officials,” it went on.

Schmitt specifically pointed out, “The complaint reads, ‘Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

The complaint reads, “Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) October 10, 2022

Including defendants from the Justice Department, the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the COVID response team, along with representatives of social media, the 164-page filing alleged the collective censorship “squelches plaintiffs’ core political speech on matters of great public concern.”

When previously confronted on allegations of collusion with Big Tech, Jean-Pierre replied, “So, I don’t have anything to share with you on that. I’m not going to comment on that right at this time,” before being asked about the AGs investigation and reiterating, “I’m not going to comment at this time.”

Karine Jean-Pierre speechless on confirmation of White House collusion with big tech companies https://t.co/kPAIQbsKZo pic.twitter.com/ZsbEEglOzT

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) September 3, 2022

The suit went on to suggest, “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.”

It is expected by Friday, the AGs will file a motion “asking the Court to grant deposition requests and allow Missouri and Louisiana to question, under oath, certain defendants named in the lawsuit.”

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