The world’s biggest advertisers are getting squeezed between Congress and federal regulators on their history of uniting against purportedly harmful speech, which conservative brands, publishers and politicians portray as illegal and ideological collusion.
The House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report Friday on the defunct Global Alliance for Responsible Media, alleging the World Federation of Advertisers-created coalition colluded with foreign governments to pressure Twitter to censor Americans’ speech after Elon Musk closed his acquisition of the social media company, since rebranded as X.
Copious communications obtained by the GOP-led committee show that European and Australian officials were involved. GARM’s co-founder, Robert Rakowitz, told one of them he aimed to have then-former President Trump, whose political future was unsure, “effectively sidelined” while fretting that he couldn’t stop the “contagion” of Trump altogether.
“GARM attacked the ability of Americans to access relevant advertisements and online content under the misguided banner of brand safety, preventing consumer preferences from driving market outcomes and replacing those preferences with the wishes of an ideologically motivated cartel,” even harming its own members’ market opportunities, the committee said.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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