The Biden administration secretly stole your data to engineer elections and silence speech

While the Department of Government Efficiency traces the flow of dollars between government and partisan activists, the flow of data may reveal an even deeper menace. 

The real story of government weaponization can only be told once we reckon with the shadowy data-sharing web secretly used to manipulate elections, punish foes and silence speech — which my new book, “They’re Coming for You,” dares to expose.

Without the constitutional authority to collect our financial transactions, our browsing histories or our location data, the Biden administration found a workaround. 

Federal agencies outsourced unconstitutional data grabs to politically aligned partners.

Instead of collecting data directly, they bought or sold it from or exchanged it with nonprofits and tech companies.

My book exposes three critical fronts where this abuse thrived: election interference, citizen surveillance and the erosion of free speech.

The silent manipulation of voters through our data demands urgent scrutiny to protect future elections.

While DOGE’s budget probes grab headlines, the real scandal is deeper.

A Biden executive order forced every federal agency to conduct ostensibly nonpartisan voter-registration drives.

Yet the implementation often told a different story. 

The Small Business Administration, for instance, diverted its limited resources toward partisan voter outreach.

The agency proactively contacted states, particularly swing states like Arizona and Georgia, to request designations as voter-registration entities, though federal law requires states to make the first move under the National Voter Registration Act.

Emails obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests reveal the SBA’s focus on liberal voting blocs, including promoting events likely to register Democratic-leaning voters in blue precincts. 

“How many events have you run to open small businesses in non-Democratic areas?” one lawmaker asked SBA Associate Administrator for Field Operations Jennifer Kim during a 2024 hearing.

Kim didn’t answer directly but assured the committee politics played no role in the agency’s outreach — a claim the efforts’ documented partisan skew contradicts.

This wasn’t random. It was a calculated use of our information, supported by partisan allies, to evade transparency.

The result? A voter base quietly reshaped, funded by us but hidden from view.

This breach of trust — turning our data into a political tool — undermines democracy itself.

My book uncovers this network, revealing how agencies and partners weaponized government services without our knowledge.

Voter manipulation is just the opening salvo. The Biden administration unleashed warrantless surveillance to silence dissenters, pressuring financial institutions to flag “suspicious” transactions and debank opposing voices.

This effort ultimately targeted Christian nonprofits, gun makers, conservative protesters — even Melania and Barron Trump — closing their accounts without cause.

By buying and sharing information with activist nongovernmental organizations and corporations, financial regulators dodged legal restrictions on government data collection. 

This financial chokehold is just the start. 

President Biden’s administration also expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless-surveillance programs to collect bulk data, including phone metadata, browsing histories and emails, bypassing Congress and public transparency.

This data net muzzles your voice.

Social-media giants Facebook, YouTube and pre-Elon Musk Twitter faced pressure, with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency flagging 859 million tweets as “misinformation” in 2023, burying 22 million. 

Among those, many truthful but politically inconvenient facts were buried under labels such as “Trends blacklist” and “Do not amplify.” 

NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, each with documented Biden-adminsitration ties, amplified this bias by assigning conservative outlets disproportionately low reliability ratings. The Federalist, for example, received a NewsGuard failing score of 12.5 out of 100, allegedly for publishing content deemed objectionable to Democrats rather than for spreading inaccurate information.

This harsh rating caused advertisers to flee, severely undercutting revenue to conservative outlets that dared tell the truth.

By contrast, left-leaning sites such as NPR and The New York Times consistently received top ratings, regardless of their reporting errors, reinforcing their dominance in news visibility and funding.

Artificial-intelligence tools, funded by government programs, downranked conservative narratives, ensuring they vanished from searches.

YouTube even tweaked algorithms at the feds’ behest. Censorship laundering through NGOs masked illegal moves, monitoring posts to crush wrongthink.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. If this data weaponization goes unchecked, it won’t end with Democrats or the Biden administration.

History has shown us the erosion of liberties for one group inevitably sets the stage for broader abuses. Today, it’s conservatives being silenced; tomorrow, it might be anyone who dissents.

But there’s hope. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and Americans of all political stripes should demand transparency and accountability from their government and its partners.

Whether through boycotts, lawsuits or investigators like DOGE, there are ways to fight back.

Free speech and an open exchange of ideas define our democracy. When those in power suppress dissent, they betray not just their critics but the Constitution itself. 

“They’re Coming for You” is a first step in exposing this corruption. But the responsibility to stop it falls on us all. Stand for truth. Demand accountability.

And above all, protect the freedoms that make America a beacon of liberty.

Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz is a former House Oversight Committee chairman.