Congressional Awareness Suppressed by Media Suppression of Ligon Senate Subcommittee Non-Certification Finding (GA)

[Reasonable Inference – Causal effect on congressional awareness] The Georgia Senate Subcommittee on Elections, chaired by Senator William Ligon, issued a formal report on December 17, 2020 – three weeks before the joint session of Congress – concluding that the election was “so compromised by systemic irregularities and voter fraud that it should not be certified.” This was a formal legislative finding by the constitutional body with oversight authority over Georgia elections. Major media outlets gave this finding minimal coverage; the prevailing media narrative characterized the election as settled, certified, and beyond challenge. The absence of sustained media coverage of the Ligon report meant that Congress, when acting on January 6, 2021, did so in an information environment from which this official legislative finding had been effectively excluded by omission.