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EU Observer (4 February 2026)

Alejandro Tauber

A new report by US Republican lawmakers alleges the European Commission has orchestrated a “decade-long campaign” to censor political speech globally, including on American soil. 

The accusations, detailed in a 160-page interim staff report released Tuesday (3 February) by the House Judiciary Committee, claim that commission officials held over 100 “closed-door meetings” with social media platforms since 2020 “where regulators had the opportunity to pressure platforms to censor content more aggressively.”

“Though often framed as combating so-called ‘hate speech’ or ‘disinformation,’ the commission worked to censor true information and political speech about some of the most important policy debates in recent history — including the Covid-19 pandemic, mass migration, and transgender issues,” the report states.

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