The Missouri v. Biden Censorship Case Just Ended in a Landmark Settlement. Here’s What That Means | Mark Chenoweth
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Recently, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) reached a major settlement concluding the landmark Missouri v. Biden lawsuit against government-induced social media censorship.
I sat down with Mark Chenoweth, president and chief legal officer of the NCLA, to discuss what this settlement actually means.
The 10-year consent decree blocks the surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency from pressuring social media companies to censor speech.
“The federal government has now admitted that it was engaged in a very systematic operation of social media censorship,” Chenoweth says.
So what does this mean exactly? What legal precedent does this set? What happens after the 10-year mark ends?
And why a consent decree at all? Why was the lawsuit settled?
We also discuss several other important cases that the NCLA has currently pending at the Supreme Court. One of them, Powell v. SEC, seeks to put an end to what Chenoweth calls the SEC’s “gag rule.”
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| 0:00.0 | The government has admitted that it was engaged in a censorship enterprise. |
| 0:04.0 | What does this admission mean for free speech in America? |
| 0:08.0 | Today I sit down with Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, NCLA. |
| 0:14.0 | We dive into a major development in the landmark censorship case that started as Missouri v. Biden, |
| 0:20.0 | and what this case reveals about the |
| 0:22.7 | reach of government power. We've now got a 10-year consent decree with the government that |
| 0:29.0 | will stop this from happening, at least to our clients, for the next decade. There's a role for the |
| 0:34.4 | government to police speech, but the government needs to police the line between legal speech and illegal speech. |
| 0:40.3 | We also explore Chenoweth's ongoing legal cases around the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, and Federal Reserve, |
| 0:47.3 | and why some believe it may be time for Congress to rethink how regulatory power is structured. |
| 0:53.3 | If they didn't have the gumption to stand up to the government last time, |
| 0:57.3 | hopefully this will help them to stand up to the government next time. |
| 1:00.6 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janje Kellick. |
| 1:05.4 | Mark Chenoweth, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:09.2 | Great to be with you again, Jan. |
| 1:10.5 | Let's talk about social media censorship. |
| 1:13.6 | So, you know, massive social media censorship change here, okay, consent degree, settlement. |
| 1:21.6 | What's the bottom line for all of us here in America? |
| 1:26.6 | The bottom line is that the federal government has now admitted that it was engaged in a |
| 1:32.6 | very systematic operation of social media censorship against COVID-19, against information |
| 1:40.0 | about the Hunter Biden laptop, against some of the opposition to the lockdowns and so forth. |
| 1:44.6 | So the government has admitted that it was engaged in a censorship enterprise. |
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