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Did The Trump Administration Censor Speech?
October 26, 2025·29 min·2 clips
The Trump administration secretly asked Facebook to take down an ICE-tracking group, contradicting their own anti-censorship rhetoric.
As heard by us
A Facebook takedown becomes a practical test of where platform moderation turns into pressure.
Renee DiResta, an associate research professor at Georgetown who studies online manipulation and abuse, frames the shutdown of Ice Sighting Chicagoland as part of a larger and less tidy dispute over how government contact with tech platforms is understood.
Why you'd press play
You get a clean tour of where platform moderation ends and government pressure begins, anchored in the Ice Sighting Chicagoland takedown.
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