Government efforts against 'false speech' completely 'eviscerates the First Amendment,' Bill Barr says
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr responds to testimony from Twitter Files authors Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger during a House hearing.
"The whole idea that the government should be encouraging companies to take out stuff that's false is that's a violation of the First Amendment," Barr said on "America Reports" Thursday. "The First Amendment actually protects false speech. And the idea that the government goes and encourages companies to exclude that stuff to me is a direct violation of the First Amendment." Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.
Barr added that much of the information from the "Twitter Files" which was censored for false information turned out to be true.
"Most of the important stuff turned out to be right, and that just eviscerates the First Amendment," he said.