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Section IV

Platforms & Power

The press decides what's reported. The platforms decide what's seen. These files document how the biggest platforms, and the government offices that leaned on them, filtered political speech.

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The Twitter Files

What Twitter's leaders told the public and Congress about political neutrality, set against the internal records released in the Twitter Files.

18 files →

The Facebook Files

The FBI's standing meetings with Facebook, the throttled laptop story, the White House pressure Zuckerberg later admitted, and the fact-checking system Meta abandoned.

15 files →

The YouTube & Google Files

YouTube's removal policies under Susan Wojcicki, the senators and doctors it suspended, Alphabet's 2025 admission of administration pressure, and the internal Google documents leaked in 2019.

20 files →

The Reddit Files

Who owns Reddit, who moderates it, which communities it banned, and what the research says about how political speech is removed there.

14 files →

The Censorship Bureau

The federal offices that flagged Americans' speech to platforms: the Disinformation Governance Board, CISA's 'switchboarding,' the Election Integrity Partnership, the State Department's Global Engagement Center, and the White House itself.

16 files →
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