Barack Obama’s legacy is collapsing under the weight of new revelations. Once seen as the face of progressivism, he’s now being accused of masterminding a global censorship system designed to silence dissent and control online speech.

According to intelligence documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Obama and his national security team manufactured a false narrative to push the Russia collusion hoax against President Donald Trump. The information, she said, shows how intelligence agencies under Obama’s watch conspired to mislead the public and undermine Trump’s presidency.

“The stunning revelations these intelligence documents expose should concern every American,” Gabbard said. “There is irrefutable evidence detailing how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win.”

Gabbard said the evidence proved Obama’s team “conspired to subvert the will of the American people” and worked with media allies to sell the false story.

Even after leaving office, Obama has stayed deeply involved in shaping policy through universities, foreign alliances, and his ties to Big Tech. In early 2022, he delivered a speech at Stanford University outlining how governments should “be involved” in regulating what people say online. He described social media as a threat that must be managed — a theme he’s repeated across Europe and the U.S.

That same week, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board, a so-called watchdog that critics say was modeled directly after Obama’s ideas. Nina Jankowicz, known for her “Mary Poppins” parody about misinformation, was chosen to lead it.

Jankowicz’s attempt to present the project as harmless backfired immediately. Within weeks, the board was shut down amid public backlash. But by then, Obama’s broader network of former officials, NGOs, and policy foundations had already set up a hidden framework for monitoring speech online.

Reports later confirmed that as early as February 2022, a “steering group” tied to DHS was already running censorship operations and holding regular meetings with Facebook executives. Internal memos revealed that the group built a special portal for the FBI and other agencies to flag posts and demand takedowns.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Josh Hawley later uncovered that the portal was also used to share data with foreign governments, bypassing free speech protections.

Michael Shellenberger, an independent journalist, uncovered more in 2025. He reported that Obama’s original censorship vision included funding “independent” NGOs through the National Science Foundation to quietly censor online content while pretending to operate outside of government control.

Shellenberger wrote that Obama’s system “was a way to get around the First Amendment” by outsourcing censorship to universities and international partners. The plan was implemented in part through the Stanford Internet Observatory — a project tied to Obama’s former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

According to sources, the same center hosted a secret dinner in late September 2025 that brought together top censorship officials from the UK, Brazil, Australia, and the EU. The meeting, titled “Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape,” was financed by billionaire Frank McCourt through his Project Liberty Institute, which pledged half a billion dollars to “strengthen democracy” through “responsible technology.”

Meanwhile, Jankowicz resurfaced in 2024 with her own group, the American Sunlight Project, which continues pushing for global “content moderation” laws. She now testifies before European parliaments, where she portrays America as a threat to democracy and urges tighter control over digital speech.

Shellenberger warned that countries like the UK and Brazil are already taking Obama’s model global. “The UK government arrests 30 people per day for ‘offensive’ social media posts,” he said. “The Brazilian government has been censoring journalists and policymakers for years.”

Obama has remained active overseas, speaking across Europe while defending what he calls “responsible digital discourse.” He has appeared in London, Dublin, and multiple times in Poland, coordinating events with international censorship officials through his allies at Stanford.

Despite his efforts, much of the system Obama built has begun to unravel. Trump’s 2024 election halted major censorship initiatives, defunded NGOs tied to Obama’s network, and shut down government programs that quietly coordinated with social media companies.

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter also exposed direct coordination between the Biden administration and Big Tech — what Musk later called “the censorship-industrial complex.”

Even so, Obama’s influence remains. His shadow operation, now run through foundations and foreign governments, continues to push for tighter internet control — a global “Ministry of Truth” that threatens the freedom of speech Americans have fought to preserve.