Democrats spent years claiming the government wasn’t working with Big Tech to silence Americans.
Those denials just went up in smoke.
And Jonathan Turley spoke one damning fact about Google’s censorship that hit Democrats like a ton of bricks.
Google finally admits to coordinating censorship with Biden administration
Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley appeared on Fox News Wednesday to discuss Google’s stunning admission to Representative Jim Jordan.
The tech giant finally acknowledged what conservatives have known all along – they coordinated with the Biden administration to censor scientists and others who questioned the official COVID narrative on YouTube.
But Turley had been tracking this government-corporate censorship machine long before Google came clean.
"You had this coordination between the government, corporations, academia, even the media to censor people with opposing views," Turley explained on Fox News. "And it came at a great cost, not just to free speech."
The cost wasn’t just theoretical either.
Countries that allowed open debate about COVID policies – and didn’t shut down their schools – avoided the psychological and developmental problems American children are still suffering from today.
"Many of our allies did not shut down their schools, and they have not experienced the psychological and developmental problems that we have experienced," Turley pointed out. "And that’s because at platforms like Google and YouTube and Facebook, these scientists were barred. They were banned. They were blacklisted."
Vindication for scientists who were proven right
The censorship targeted legitimate scientists who dared question the official line.
Many signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration – respected scientists who raised opposing views about COVID policy – found themselves completely banned from major platforms.
Turley had the chance to meet with some of these blacklisted scientists at a University of Chicago speech over a year ago.
"They have been vindicated in many respects on the stuff that they wanted to get out to the public but were prevented from doing so," Turley stated.
These weren’t fringe conspiracy theorists or political hacks.
These were credentialed scientists whose expertise could have informed a real national debate about pandemic policy.
Instead, they were silenced by a coordinated effort between government officials and tech platforms that decided Americans couldn’t handle dissenting scientific opinions.
The Biden administration didn’t just ask nicely for censorship either.
Google’s letter to Jordan revealed how "administration officials, including President Biden, created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation."¹
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had already spilled the beans about the administration’s pressure tactics during a January 2025 appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
"These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse," Zuckerberg revealed. "It just got to this point where we were like, no, we’re not going to take down things that are true. That’s ridiculous."
Democrats mocked the evidence until it became undeniable
Turley had been warning about this coordinated censorship for years.
He testified repeatedly in Congress about the government-Big Tech partnership to silence dissenting voices.
But Democrat members had a standard response to these warnings.
"Before the release of the Twitter files, Democratic members really mocked us and said, oh, you’ve no evidence of coordination. This is all speculation," Turley recalled.
The mockery didn’t age well.
The Twitter Files exposed extensive coordination between government officials and social media platforms to suppress information and silence users.
The Facebook Files revealed similar patterns of government pressure and corporate compliance.
Now Google’s admission to Jordan provides even more proof of what Turley and other free speech advocates have been documenting all along.
"This is a vindication for those scientists and many others who have been in this fight," Turley stated.
Look, here’s what this really means for the future
The coordination wasn’t limited to COVID content either.
"There was extensive censorship, not just on COVID issues, but other issues. Even jokes were being censored at the demand of Biden administration officials," Turley explained.
That’s how censorship works – it creates what Turley called "an insatiable desire and appetite."
Once you start silencing people, the definition of dangerous "misinformation" keeps expanding.
Soon Meta was censoring a huge amount of content at the government’s direction.
But here’s the encouraging part.
Elon Musk deserves enormous credit for breaking this cycle when he bought Twitter and turned it into X.
"Figures like Hillary Clinton went to Europe and said, use the Digital Services Act, this infamous EU legislative initiative to censor Americans," Turley noted. "And, you know, Musk has been out there alone in this fight."
Musk’s example inspired other companies to follow suit.
Meta rolled back many of its censorship policies.
Now Google is being forced to admit what it was doing all along.
"This is a huge development for the free speech community," Turley stated. "We need these companies, particularly in fending off the EU, which is being very aggressive in this anti free speech campaign."
The European Union is still pushing American tech companies to censor content that European bureaucrats find objectionable.
But companies like X are showing there’s another way.
For American families who lived through forced school closures and watched their children struggle with developmental problems, Google’s admission is long overdue.
The scientists who tried to warn about the consequences of these policies were silenced by a coordinated campaign between government officials and tech platforms.
Their vindication came too late for the kids who suffered – but it’s not too late to prevent this kind of censorship from happening again.
¹ Ian Schwartz, "Turley: Google Admitting To Censorship Is Vindication For Blacklisted Scientists," RealClearPolitics, September 24, 2025.
² House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "Google Admits Censorship Under Biden; Promises to End Bans of YouTube Accounts of Thousands of Americans Censored for Political Speech," September 23, 2025.
