Biden’s New DHS Chief of Staff Canegallo Has Pro-Censorship Past

President Joe Biden’s new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief of Staff Kristie Canegallo has a politically leftist, pro-censorship history that should raise concerns for free speech advocates.

Kristie Canegallo, formerly Google’s vice president of trust and safety, is now chief of staff at the DHS. Canegallo has a history of targeting so-called “hate speech” and supporting extensive censorship campaigns. Back in 2019, Canegallo discussed her and Google’s work regarding alleged “hate speech,” touting the European Commission’s “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online.” The code of conduct made news back in 2005 for trying to end discussion of “Islamic terrorism” online. Google-owned YouTube had “removed over 7 million videos that broke its rules and blocked 224 million comments,” Canegallo further boasted. “Across other products like Drive, Photos and Blogger, in the past year, we [Google] took down over 38,000 pieces of hate speech.”

Canegallo was previously in other positions. Canegallo, who was previously President Barack Obama’s assistant, deputy chief-of-staff for implementation, as well as special assistant to and advisor on the chief staff, served in the past. Politico reports that Canegallo served as an advisor to the president and deputy chief of staff for implementation during both the George W. Bush administration and the Obama administrations.

Canegallo was also involved in election-related Google censorship. She laid out a plan leading up to the 2020 U.S. election that included the “disrupt[ion]” of what Google considered “disinformation campaigns.” Canegallo wrote that Google worked with government agencies, including the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.

Big Tech censorship has the potential to have significant real-world consequences. A Media Research Center poll, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, found in November 2020 that had Big Tech platforms not censored information linking Biden to corrupt financial dealings with China through his son Hunter, former President Donald Trump would have received more votes than Biden. Research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein warned in 2020 that he had evidence Google was using the power of its search engine to focus its “vote shifting power” on flipping the senate to Democratic Party control. It is important to remember that Canegallo, a pro-censorship person, has been preparing for the leadership of a large government agency.

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