The US has accused the EU of censorship: Here's how the bloc's consensus machine works

The Republican US House Judiciary Committee has published details of what it claims is a decade-long campaign by the European Commission to stifle online political speech, with barely-veiled threats used to stamp out memes, satire, and anything Brussels calls "disinformation."
In a report published on Tuesday, the committee accused the EU of "directly infringing" on the free speech rights of Americans and Europeans alike by pressuring major social media platforms into censoring legal but "hateful" or otherwise problematic content.