TOP NEWS | Biden Admin Tried To Censor Itself Using Big Tech, Fauci Reportedly Played Role In Downplaying Lab Leak, Sotomayor Staff Pushed Book Sales | July 11

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Tyler O’Neil reports that the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report on Monday, revealing that the FBI under President Joe Biden urged Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to remove the U.S. State Department’s official Russian-language Instagram account. Tyler’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/11/big-tech-censorship-backfires-biden-admin-flags-itself-pro-ukraine-accounts-russian-disinformation-docs-reveal/ Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health, reportedly helped with downplaying the lab leak theory in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Associated Press reports that staff of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would ask libraries and colleges to buy her books ahead of speaking engagements. Full article: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-sotomayor-book-sales-ethics-colleges-b2cb93493f927f995829762cb8338c02 Gigi De La Torre reports an American cycling competition created a third division for “transgender” cyclists on Friday after a male recently won a cycling event in the women’s division. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Samantha Cheris, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Tuesday,
0:06.6	July 11.
0:07.6	Here are today's headlines.
0:21.6	Our colleague Tyler O'Neill is reporting that the House Select Subcommittee on the weaponization
0:26.4	of the federal government released a report on Monday.
0:29.6	Revealing that the FBI under President Joe Biden urged Metta, Instagram's parent company,
0:36.0	to remove the U.S. State Department's official Russian-language Instagram account.
0:41.9	After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the FBI routinely forwarded lists from the
0:48.3	Secret Service of Ukraine, or SBU, to big tech companies, warning that the social media
0:54.6	accounts allegedly spread Russian disinformation according to the report.
0:59.8	The SBU flagged the accounts for big tech and the FBI, and the FBI often would fall up
1:06.8	to ensure that big tech took action against the social media accounts.
1:11.6	The lists from Ukraine's secret police often included U.S.-based accounts, and the House
1:17.4	Subcommittee falsely FBI for failing to respect fundamental American civil liberties.
1:24.7	A catch affected the scheme to combat Russian disinformation, however.
1:29.5	According to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Russia's Federal Security Service, or
1:35.0	FSB, had infiltrated Ukraine's SBU.
1:39.1	In July 2022, Zelensky fired the head of SBU on account of Russian infiltration of the
1:45.7	Security Service.
1:47.6	Earlier this year, Major General Viktor Yehoun, the Ukrainian Secret Service's Deputy
1:52.3	Chairman between 2014 and 2015, said that the SBU long has had an overly close relationship
1:59.3	with Russian security, and that Ukrainian patriots in the agency have been in the minority.
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