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Top Biden Transition Team Member Wrote Widely Criticized Op-Ed Advocating First Amendment Crackdown

Ryan Saavedra
Top Biden Transition Team Member Wrote Widely Criticized Op-Ed Advocating First Amendment Crackdown
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Richard Stengel, the Biden transition team’s “Team Lead” for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, wrote a widely criticized op-ed last year in The Washington Post advocating for a crackdown on the First Amendment, specifically criminalizing hate speech.

The U.S. Agency for Global Media is America’s “government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,” the New York Post reported.

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