In a resurfaced clip from her 2022 TED Talk delivered when she was the CEO of Wikipedia, Maher claimed, "Our reverence for the truth might have become a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting important things done."

"That is not to say that the truth doesn't exist or to say that the truth isn't important. Clearly the search for the truth has led us to do great things…[but] one reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths."

In April, Maher also lamented to the Atlantic Council that the First Amendment was "a little bit tricky" to circumvent in order to censor "bad information" and "influence peddlers."

X owner Elon Musk criticized the viral clip, saying, "Your tax dollars should not fund lies."

NPR announced earlier this month it would be dropping X over "credibility" concerns after their account was labeled "state-affiliated media." X later changed the outlet's label to "government-funded media."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday said President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will look into defunding taxpayer-funded propaganda networks like NPR.

DOGE, which will be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, will be tasked with eliminating government waste and overhauling how taxpayer money is responsibly spent.

"We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs, like NPR that spreads nothing but Democrat propaganda, we'll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don't help the American people," Greene told Fox News' "Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo.