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He has also welcomed social media's censorship of President Trump and the use of government propaganda.

Richard Stengel, the head of the Joe Biden transition team for US state media outlets, is an outspoken supporter of “hate speech” laws, social media censorship, and other means that restrict or editorialize people’s speech.

Stengel was recently named on the Biden transition website as team lead for the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) – a US government-owned agency that’s responsible for operating several state-owned media outlets which include Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. ...

Stengel’s past statements and roles show that he has a history of advocating for the suppression of speech based on censorship buzzwords such as hate speech, “disinformation,” and “misinformation.” ...

During a May 3, 2018 panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Stengel stated: “I actually having once been almost a First Amendment absolutist, I’ve really moved my position on it because I just think for practical reasons and for society we have to kind of rethink some of those things.” ...

And during the same MSNBC interview where he claimed that the First Amendment doesn’t protect false speech that endangers health, Stengel said Facebook and Twitter need to be “even more vigilant” about taking down content and that “Google needs to be even more vigilant about what they prioritize in their search results rather than emotional and inflammatory conspiracy theories that get people’s eyes.” ...

During his 2018 appearance at the CFR panel, Stengel discussed his role as President Obama’s Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs between 2014 and 2016 and described propaganda as something every country has to do:

“My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job. We haven’t talked about propaganda. Every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.” ...

Biden’s transition team is also filled with employees from Big Tech companies such as Facebook and Twitter. These companies have deployed unprecedented levels of censorship over the last few years, much of which has benefited Biden.