5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable
Inventory and publish DHS's history of social media censorship work
Printed page 161 5. Department of Homeland Security
“PLCY should likewise do a complete inventory, analysis, and evaluation of any of the department's work, in coordination with social media outlets, to censor or otherwise change or affect Americans' speech. PLCY should comprehensively report on and publish this history in full so that the American people can know the facts.”
What has happened
- Not started
No inventory or published report of DHS's work with social media platforms exists. The department has repeatedly asserted in its own year-in-review releases that “under Biden, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was used to censor and target Americans” and that CISA is now “back on-mission”, but an assertion in a press release is not the complete inventory, analysis and evaluation the Quote asks PLCY to publish “in full so that the American people can know the facts”. Nothing of that kind has been released.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Not started, on a negative search covering the asks on these pages that task PLCY. The ask is a published report; the search was for one.
- DHS press index searched at https://www.dhs.gov/news-releases/press-releases?combine=censorship and for “misinformation”: three year-in-review releases (2025-12-19, 2026-02-24, 2026-03-05) each carry a section headed “Ending the Censorship of Americans”, all of them narrative claims about CISA’s refocusing, none an inventory or a report.
- Federal Register carries nothing; a report of this kind would not appear there, which is why the DHS index was searched directly.
- The personnel half of the same page is #419, which did move.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- report on DHS social media censorship activity
- ID
- 418