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Saved - April 14, 2023 at 6:58 PM
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Governments in the US, Canada, UK, and New Zealand are working together to censor citizens. Private sector partners are involved, and police visit those who post "wrongspeak." New documents show a censorship effort in US-allied nations. Whistleblowers are encouraged to come forward. Organizations fighting misinformation may be involved in illegal activity. New Zealand is a major player in the Censorship Industrial Complex. The case for censorship is made to prevent harm, but the mandate is so expansive that anything could be censored. The public won't tolerate self-appointed censors. Subscribe for exclusive content and watch the documentary on the Censorship Industrial Complex.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

The idea that governments worldwide are working together to censor their citizens sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's increasingly clear that there is just such an organized effort involving, at a minimum, the US, Canada, UK, & New Zealand.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Consider: the U.S. government worked with private sector partner The Atlantic Council to censor ordinary Americans; UK police visit people who post wrongspeak; Canada is seeking greater censorship; and the former PM of NZ is leaving the government to do censorship full-time.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Now, new documents have surfaced showing a censorship effort in U.S.-allied nation that are eerily similar to the ones created in the U.S. https://t.co/xqpgnPqcl0

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

We are working on a major story about this. If you are a whistleblower, please DM me We follow the Pentagon Papers Principle. We will go to prison for our sources. The regime media cannot be trusted. They are more likely to hunt down than help whistleblowers.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

If you work for an organization "fighting mis- and disinformation," you may be involved in illegal activity Whether you live in the US, Canada, UK, NZ or some other nation, please act on your ethical duty & blow the whistle on the self-appointed censors https://t.co/BV4KSmzP64

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

It may seem odd that tiny New Zealand is playing a major role in the Censorship Industrial Complex, but it's both a major U.S. nat sec ally & Woke, which allows for censorship by appeals to "preventing harm," the core value of victimhood ideology https://t.co/xdB8L5rNFH

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

In her video for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CIA Fellow Renee DiResta makes the case for censorship to prevent "harm," including "delegitimizing institutions," a term so expansive as to effectively justify the censorship of anything. Subscribers can watch here: https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1646919796431425537?s=20…

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Renee DiResta: "Our joint objective is to mitigate the impact of harmful misinformation, particularly that which is aimed at weakening our national security through efforts aimed at de-legitimizing our institutions, including democratic elections." Under such a mandate, literally, anything could be censored. Teaser:

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The speakers discuss the objective of mitigating harmful misinformation that aims to weaken national security and delegitimize institutions, including democratic elections. Speaker 1 expresses concern about the potential censorship of speech that criticizes institutions, such as calling for a different president or questioning the actions of the Pentagon. Speaker 0 clarifies that the focus is on matters of national security that explicitly undermine American institutions, like content intended to suppress voting or delegitimize election results without evidence. Speaker 1 argues that this narrow focus still encompasses a wide range of speech. The creation of a center of excellence and a disinformation governance board is mentioned as potential measures.
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Speaker 0: Our joint objective is to mitigate the impact of harmful misinformation, particularly that which is aimed at weakening our national security through efforts aimed at delegitimizing our institutions, including democratic elections. Speaker 1: That is amazing. She just said we need to focus on stopping speech that delegitimizes institutions. You kinda go, well, okay. That seems fair. We wanna, you know, we don't like how Kuat are overthrowing the government. But I mean, you define it like that, that's like basically censoring anybody who says We should, you know, we need a different president. We should, abolish the Department of Energy. The Pentagon are warmongers. The Pentagon are warmongers. You know, abolish the police. All of those things can be perceived as pretty easily and defined pretty easily as delegitimizing of institutions. So she wants to censor That's where the focus needs to be. The other creepy thing of what she just said is that it has to be national security. Our focus will be on national security. Okay. So we're gonna censor for national Security, pandemic related vaccine hesitancy, and delegitimizing institutions. At that point, it's like, what's left? Like, what haven't you created a predicate to Speaker 0: This type of partnership is not a fact checking endeavor to debunk misinformation more generally. Our work must always remain focused narrowly on matters of national security that explicitly undercut American institutions. Speaker 1: Well, that might include NATO. That might include the Pentagon Speaker 0: For instance, for EIP, we focused on content intended to suppress voting, reduce participation, confuse voters as to the election process, or delegitimize election results without evidence. Speaker 1: Like in every case, you can think of an example of legitimate free speech. Like I might say, Like she says, suppress voting. Well, maybe I say, hey, there's no point in voting. You know? The system is rigged. You don't have a good candidate. Don't vote. Why can't I say that? Vote. Yeah. Vote third party. Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican. You know, do a write in candidate. Well, you've disrupted the you've just delegitimize institutions. Just wrote you wrote in Ronald McDonald. How dare you say that you should write in Ronald McDonald? I mean, this is in this is insane. Speaker 0: And that targeted narrow scoping is critical to the success of a partnership. Speaker 1: So that's Orwellian. She just she just you just find this huge area that they can Censor on elections, pandemic, vaccines, delegitimize institutions, and then she goes, that narrow targeting, that's not narrow. That's I mean, that's everything. Speaker 0: Creation of a center of excellence within the federal government, for example, could tie in a federal lead. Speaker 1: There it is. That's Renee Di Resta surfacing as far as I know, the first time publicly the creation of a disinformation governance board which the Department of Homeland Security, which this agency is a part of ended up introducing in the spring of 2022. And it was Everybody immediately saw it as a terrifying, un American

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

The publics in US, UK, Canada, NZ and other nations aren't going to put up with a bunch of self-appointed government spooks and censorship Karens censoring us. "We're not gonna do it, lady. We don't want it."

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The speaker criticizes a comprehensive agenda that aims to align various stakeholders, including civil society organizations, NGOs, and government officials, for effective communication and situational awareness. They argue that this approach goes against the principles of free speech in America and accuses it of spreading propaganda and violating civil liberties. However, the other speaker emphasizes the importance of multi-stakeholder partnerships while respecting civil liberties and prioritizing free expression. They conclude by expressing anticipation for the remaining sessions of the event and thanking the audience. The first speaker firmly rejects the proposed agenda, stating that they do not want it.
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Speaker 0: I mean, it's a holistic, you once could say, totalizing agenda. Look at that, I mean, she wants to get everybody on the same page. Civil society organizations, NGOs, government officials, multiple agencies. I mean, it's bonkers. It's just not it's not how we do free speech in America. Speaker 1: So in closing, we need multi stakeholder partnerships Speaker 0: to get around the first supposedly to get around the first amendment, but not actually. Speaker 1: That facilitate effective communication. Speaker 0: To spread propaganda. Speaker 1: To enable situational awareness. Speaker 0: Through spying on your fellow Americans. Speaker 1: For government, tech platforms, and community leaders. Speaker 0: Through a totalizing whole of society information war. Speaker 1: While respecting civil liberties and prioritizing free expression. Speaker 0: Oh, without violating the first amendment. Simple. Speaker 1: Simple. Right? So I look forward to the rest of the sessions in this important event focusing on the power of partnerships. And thank you so much for having me speak today. Speaker 0: No. We're not gonna do it, lady. We don't want it.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

We can't do it alone. Please subscribe for our exclusive content and watch our new documentary on why Renee DiResta is the intellectual leader of the Censorship Industrial Complex https://t.co/c0cs6hApQX

Saved - June 16, 2023 at 5:23 AM
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The Alliance for Securing Democracy suggests the US government adopt Australia's social media censorship techniques. They propose a searchable database to censor claims during upcoming elections. The Alliance is funded by the State Department and warns against gradual implementation. Australia's censorship practices resemble a police state, including a proposed law requiring a digital driver's license to use the internet. The US State Department is paying NGOs to lobby for similar censorship practices in the US.

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

The notorious Alliance for Securing Democracy is out with a new report proposing America copy the social media censorship techniques used in Australia:

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

Alliance for Securing Democracy proposing a US-government operated or funded Australian censorship copycat that has a “searchable database” of claims to censor during upcoming US elections:

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

But don’t boil the frog!! ASD cautions. They imply their friends in the censorship industry screwed up with DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board by not brainwashing the public sufficiently in advance to accept it:

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

Alliance for Securing Democracy — funded by your tax dollars via State Dept — proposes DHS copy the censorship practices of Australia’s DHA (Dept of Home Affairs). Reminder that Australia’s DHA was busted telling Twitter to censor jokes and virtually any gov’t criticism:

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

Reminder that Australian censorship practices approximate an almost total police state: https://t.co/uyGZIB49Tb

@ozcrimenews - ➖ OCN ➖

Part of the whole Australia wide censorship going on and powers at levels dictating what people can and cannot see or how and who delivers the story. Like COVID. Like the Federal Laws recently passed.

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In breaking news, media coverage of the Melbourne protests and riots is being restricted. Victoria Police Media requested broadcasters to stop streaming aerial pictures of the protests. As a result, a no fly order has been placed on the media helicopter that supplies pictures to different outlets. The order is expected to last for three days.
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Speaker 0: Got some breaking news this hour. Media is being prevented from showing aerial pictures of the Melbourne protests and riots. So earlier today, a request came from Victoria Police Media for broadcasters to stop streaming the aerial pictures of the protests that we had yesterday. The Victorian Police have now applied to put a no fly order on the media helicopter, which supplies pictures to various outlets. It's believed the order is to last 3

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

Australia gov’t openly floated a law that would require a digital driver’s license to use the Internet, to stop its citizens from spreading ‘misinformation’. The US State Dept is paying its cut-out NGOs to lobby for emulating Australian censorship practices here at home:

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The federal government is considering a radical plan to crack down on social media abuse. Australians would be required to provide 100 points of identification, such as a driver's license or passport, when using platforms like Facebook and Twitter. This would give police access to their social media accounts, aiming to deter online abuse. Users could face defamation suits or criminal prosecution under this plan. The recommendations were made by a federal parliamentary inquiry and are being considered by the Morrison government. The chairman believes removing anonymity could have merit in addressing the issue.
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Speaker 0: A radical plan to crackdown on social media abuse is being considered by the federal government. For more 9's Oliver Hague joins us live in Adelaide. Ollie, how will it work? Speaker 1: Laila, good morning. Essentially, it will work the same as the passport. Australians forced to submit 100 points of identification like their driver's license or passport when using social media accounts like Facebook And Twitter now police would have access to those social media accounts and it's all part of a crackdown on online abuse. Now users Could be liable for defamation suits or even criminal prosecution. It's all part of a plan hoping to deter people from engaging in bad Ad behaviour. Now the recommendations were handed down by a federal parliamentary inquiry. They're reforms that are being considered by the Morrison government With the chairman saying there is merit to remove to remove, the veil of being anonymous.
Saved - November 7, 2023 at 1:43 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
Recent discoveries have revealed collusion between ALIBABA, STANFORD, ERIC, DHS, CISA, FACEBOOK, and the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. They sent/received voter registration data to Beijing, China, aiming to influence our elections. Simultaneously, they formed an "ELECTION INTEGRITY PARTNERSHIP" with the federal government to suppress discussion on social channels. They labeled dissenters as dangerous and planned to silence them. Defunding or abolishing these entities is insufficient; accountability is necessary.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

In light of our recent discoveries with regards to ALIBABA, STANFORD and ERIC, think about the possible implications for STANFORD, DHS, CISA and FACEBOOK now: ✅ALL of these entities COLLUDED (with the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS as well) to send/receive 31 STATES-worth of VOTER REGISTRATION DATA to BEIJING, CHINA for the purposes of INFLUENCING THE OUTCOMES OF OUR ELECTIONS. ✅At they SAME TIME, they’d created an “ELECTION INTEGRITY PARTNERSHIP” with the WHOLE of our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, just to make SURE that YOU COULDN’T TALK ABOUT WHAT’S READILY APPARENT (what they were doing) ON ANY SOCIAL CHANNELS! (They OUTLAWED you “noticing” lol.) ✅Then, they called you a f*cking LIAR, accused you of being “DANGEROUS”, PLANNED A REICHSTAG FIRE to temporarily SHUT YOU UP… and then they BLAMED YOU FOR ALL OF IT! 💥SPOILERS: It’s no longer enough to simply “defund” or “abolish” these entities and organizations. These people need to hang.

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

EXCLUSIVE: Docs Shed New Light on Feds' Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media @RCInvestigates we report on records showing the thousands of tweets and Facebook posts on topics from mail-in voting to aberrant election results that DHS' partner, the Election Integrity Partnership, flagged to platforms for censorship -- much of which they would suppress https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/11/06/documents_shed_new_light_on_feds_collusion_with_private_actors_to_police_speech_on_social_media_990672.html

Documents Shed New Light on Feds' Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 6, 2023 In the runup to the 2020 election, cybersecurity experts at the Department of Homeland Security and Stanford University decided they had dis realclearinvestigations.com
Saved - November 7, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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A bombshell report reveals how various entities, including @DHSgov, @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), and @Stanford, collaborated to censor Americans before the 2020 election. The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), created at the request of CISA, played a key role. EIP stakeholders submitted misinformation reports, which were analyzed and shared with Big Tech for potential censorship. Conservatives, such as @realDonaldTrump and @seanhannity, were specifically targeted. True information, jokes, and political opinions were censored. @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization obtained these documents after threats of contempt. The public deserves to know if they were targeted. The report and data are available for review. Stay tuned for more.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HUNDREDS of secret reports show how @DHSgov’s @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), @Stanford and others worked together to censor AMERICANS before the 2020 election, including true information, jokes, and opinions. 🧵 THREAD:

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

The federal government, disinformation “experts” at universities, Big Tech, and others worked together through the Election Integrity Partnership to monitor & censor Americans’ speech.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

According to one EIP member, the EIP was created “at the request of CISA.” The head of the EIP also said that EIP was created after “working on some monitoring ideas with CISA.”

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Here’s how it worked: -EIP “stakeholders” (including the federal gov’t) would submit misinformation reports -EIP would “analyze” the report and find similar content across platforms -EIP would submit the report to Big Tech, often with a recommendation on how to censor

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

.@JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization obtained these nonpublic documents and information from @Stanford only after the threat of contempt. You can read all the details in the report here: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Who was targeted? Americans of all political stripes, but especially conservatives: @realDonaldTrump@SenThomTillis@newtgingrich@GovMikeHuckabee@mtgreenee@seanhannity@MZHemingway@pnjaban@charliekirk11@RealCandaceO@JackPosobiec@bennyjohnson@TomFitton@TheBabylonBee

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

And it didn’t stop there, here are some more accounts that were targeted: @NEWSMAX@michellemalkin@seanmdav@RubinReport@paulsperry_@tracybeanz @ChanelRion @JamesOKeefeIII

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

What speech was targeted for censorship? -True information -Jokes -Political opinions Here are a few examples:

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Here are a few more examples:

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Who did we miss? Did you have a social media post that was targeted by the EIP? It’s clear why @Stanford tried only produced these after @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization threatened contempt.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

The American people deserve to know if they were targeted by their own government and so-called “disinformation” experts. The Committee is making the data from these reports publicly available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSbP06KE51ds51-Ha6MXkuyoWuCLW168Wz9CMBbhe1BV1IVLxG660eDBUpaVw_Hs5KdhvTvOLS7BUit/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false

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Saved - November 7, 2023 at 4:37 AM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

This is a big deal

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HUNDREDS of secret reports show how @DHSgov’s @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), @Stanford and others worked together to censor AMERICANS before the 2020 election, including true information, jokes, and opinions. 🧵 THREAD:

Saved - November 13, 2023 at 7:33 PM
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Twitter Algo Finale: Evidence reveals Twitter's role in mass censoring conservative Americans. Open-sourced code on GitHub, provided by Elon Musk, confirms the connection to Twitter Files exposing account labels on popular conservative accounts. Labels were also applied to individual tweets, reducing their reach. The algorithm includes a social credit score, clusters to silence entire groups, and a government request mechanism. Models like toxicity and abuse are used, but not all details are open-sourced. Community Notes audit confirms findings. Twitter's actions amount to election interference. This information is crucial for Rep Anna Paulina Luna and @Jim_Jordan's report on the Industrial Censorship Complex. Urgent action is needed to restore free speech on social media platforms.

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🧵 TWITTER ALGO FINALE THREAD 🧵 This thread will serve the purpose of providing a mountain of evidence to @realannapaulina for her congressional hearing against Twitter 1.0 employees for their role in mass censoring Conservative Americans.

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Let's first show the open sourced code on github that was provided by Elon Musk.

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

GitHub - twitter/the-algorithm: Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - GitHub - twitter/the-algorithm: Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm github.com

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Using the code from this repository we can then begin to confirm the codes connection to the Twitter Files released by @bariweiss. From this post we can see that there was account labels placed on popular conservative accounts.

@bariweiss - Bari Weiss

THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO. TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

From the images we can see the labels that were placed on those accounts were: - Recent Abuse Strike - Trends Blacklist - Notifications Spike - Search Blacklist - Do Not Amplify Consequently all these labels show up in the open source code found here. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/72eda9a24f815f6d566818cbf8518138e29d83e9/visibilitylib/src/main/scala/com/twitter/visibility/models/UserLabel.scala#L11

File not found · twitter/the-algorithm Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - File not found · twitter/the-algorithm github.com

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Not only did Twitter apply labels to accounts, but they also applied labels to individual tweets. This served to further reduce the reach of conservative accounts like those shown above. Here is the link to the full list of Tweet Safety Labels. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/72eda9a24f815f6d566818cbf8518138e29d83e9/visibilitylib/src/main/scala/com/twitter/visibility/models/TweetSafetyLabel.scala#L12

File not found · twitter/the-algorithm Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - File not found · twitter/the-algorithm github.com

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

These Tweet Safety Labels reduced visibility on some of the most important information for the public regarding Covid-19 and Elections. We can see these overreaching labels here for: - Misinfo Covid-19 - Misinfo Covid-19 Vaccine - Misinfo US Elections https://t.co/sXWz1aXz1B

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

There is also a label they can apply to tweets for simply not liking a specific user and is specifically worded as Persona Non Grata. For those that don't know what this means here is the definition. https://t.co/zMQwMdMWZy

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

We will now move away from labels and show yet other forms of censorship mechanisms in the code. There's actually a Social Credit Score built into the Algo and applies scores for the following: - User Mass Score - Reputation Score (Tweepcred) - Toxicity Score - Follow Score https://t.co/tbdK44DXep

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Here is the full thread I did on the Reputation Score that goes into detail about how it works in the code. The Reputation Score was also confirmed by Elon Musk and his Engineering Team 3 weeks after I disclosed it. https://t.co/cHK6Gv67Ph https://t.co/AoDUvHcTpT

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🧵 TWEEPCRED AND REPUTATION TWITTER ALGORITHM THREAD 🧵 Ever wonder why once your Twitter Account gets BLACKLISTED it seems almost impossible to get off? This thread will explain why this likely happening. https://t.co/t0CsHxDSuW

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Additionally, Twitter 1.0 also went beyond just censoring individual users, but censored entire groups, mainly conservatives, by using a clustering method. By grouping these accounts in clusters they were able to silence entire groups and topics. It is shown in the code here. https://t.co/9wnaGZpGvy

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Here is a deeper explanation on the clusters from a previous post I did. https://t.co/rZcaFykGyG

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 TWITTER ALGO HAS CODING TO PENALIZE CERTAIN GROUPS, KNOWN AS CLUSTERS, WHERE CLUSTERS GET PENALIZED BASED ON LOTS OF INTEREST AND POPULAR USERS! CONSERVATIVE CLUSTERS ARE BEING PENALIZED, WHICH LIMITS VISIBILITY FOR ALL THAT ARE IN IT!! https://t.co/O33Q5gJgXD

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

As if these censorship mechanisms are not enough their is actually coding for a Government Request to intervene on things they consider misinformation. https://t.co/zpvvC4cYbD

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

We can also see the code that was directly responsible for suspending and silencing the sitting President of the United States @realDonaldTrump. Here is the full thread on it I did previously. https://t.co/iRpoIfpaWl https://t.co/qBaFpniRSx

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🧵 DONALD TRUMP TOMBSTONE THREAD 🧵 Now that we know the exact Code responsible for suspending and silencing a sitting PRESIDENT, let's see how the process unfolded on January 8th, 2021. https://t.co/ZsakECluCf

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

This is now a good time to bring up the Tombstone censorship mechanism, which was the first thing I found in the code. Here is the full thread on the Tombstone as well as an example of what the Tombstone looks like in use. https://t.co/eMUJFE5ld6 https://t.co/Yp8NT713ax

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🧵 TWITTER SUPPRESSION ALGORITHM THREAD 🧵 If you have ever been censored on Twitter or other platforms you will want to read this. This Thread will Expose the ALGORITHM LIKELY USED BY TWITTER FOR MASS CENSORSHIP. Let me introduce you to the Tombstone Generator! 💪 @elonmusk https://t.co/VFapx85pOS

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Now let's go a little deeper and talk about Models within the Algorithm. Here we can see several Trust and Safety Models that were released in the open source code and are as follows: - Abusive - NSFW - Toxicity https://t.co/zxoje0TogE

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Looking into the Toxicity Model we find that there is a keyword list used in order to make computational decisions on whether a posts visibility is altered. The list includes words for Politics, Insults, and Race. These keywords however are not open sourced. https://t.co/umzyVdZCZv

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Additionally, not all the models have been released and is even confirmed in the code. Here is what it says. https://t.co/GXrWKDcryy

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

It is also important to state that not once has any of my findings been disputed or Community Noted. In fact @CommunityNotes essentially confirmed my findings, but were too cowardly to actually apply the note. This is a post I did in response to this. https://t.co/xT2MRbMxlx

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 COMMUNITY NOTES AUDIT PROVES THAT THE GROUP IS COMPROMISED AND DOES NOT EVEN HONOR THEIR VERY OWN VOTING RESULTS. HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE DATA FROM THE COMMUNITY NOTE THAT CORRECTS THE FACT THAT I FOUND THE REPUTATION SCORE! https://t.co/t3Aj8njWyb

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

At this point it should be clear that Twitter Algo was designed for 1 purpose and 1 purpose alone, to silence conservatives and control the information narrative on social media. The depth that Twitter went to silence conservatives is nothing short of election interference.

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

This critical info should significantly help Rep Anna Paulina Luna and may also be of great interest to @Jim_Jordan as well in regards to his recent bombshell report on the Industrial Censorship Complex. https://t.co/y5mrdzcDRi

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HUNDREDS of secret reports show how @DHSgov’s @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), @Stanford and others worked together to censor AMERICANS before the 2020 election, including true information, jokes, and opinions. 🧵 THREAD:

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

Let's hope that this information initiates some serious change on Social Media platforms to stop censoring free speech and limiting the reach of conservatives. With elections coming up in less than a year it is more important than ever that this be addressed immediately.

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

In conclusion these mechanisms are still in place on Social Media Platforms including X. Although Elon Musk claims a new Algorithm is about to roll out, until it does, it is safe to assume that most of the old Algorithm is still in place. The time to restore Free Speech is now!

Saved - November 15, 2023 at 12:19 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
A recent congressional report exposes the "censorship industrial complex" targeting right-wing voices during the 2020 election. Project Veritas, known for exposing corruption, faced dismissal of their lawsuit against the Election Integrity Project due to statements lacking factual basis. The court acknowledged the authors' biases, rendering certain claims unverifiable. Troublingly, the government intends to continue the unconstitutional Election Integrity Partnership's censorship program. Brace for more suppression in the upcoming election.

@JamesOKeefeIII - James O'Keefe

BOMBSHELL: Congressional report outlines structure of ‘censorship industrial complex’ The House Judiciary Committee released a damning report a week ago proving what we have known all along: that government forces sought to silence and deplatform voices on the right during the 2020 election and beyond, including yours truly. You’ll remember back when I was with Project Veritas that I SUED the Election Integrity Project in Washington State, at Stanford and the University of Washington. However, a judge moved to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the statements about Veritas are not actionable because they are not factual statements, because they are not capable of being proven true, and because the academic researcher’s statements “lack precision.” The district court concluded that readers of Stanford and the University of Washington’s academic analysis would have expected to encounter analysis that reflected the authors’ “subjective biases,” including “mischaracterizations and exaggerations,” and thus the specific statements that Project Veritas took issue with were not actionable for defamation because they were not “capable of verification or refutation by means of objective proof.” In the judge’s order dismissing our lawsuit, he notes the statement that our video had been “debunked” is incapable of being proven true or false." “A reasonable inference to be drawn from the complaint," Thomas S Zilly, US District Judge ,concluded, "is that readers of the EIP blog post would have had some awareness of the allegedly left-leaning biases of the authors." The most chilling part is, the government has no plans to stop this unconstitutional “Election Integrity Partnership” censoring program. Expect to see more of the same into the new year, when the election really gets underway. #censorship #misinformation #disinformation #firstamendment

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The speaker discusses a coordinated disinformation campaign involving the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), The New York Times, and the Department of Homeland Security. The EIP provided a blog post to The New York Times, which then published a defamatory article. The EIP later cited the article in its own report. The Department of Homeland Security was revealed to be involved in the campaign. The speaker highlights the censorship and silencing of right-wing voices on social media platforms, as well as the impact on public access to information. Lawsuits were filed against The New York Times and EIP, but were dismissed. The speaker suggests that this campaign will be used in the 2024 election.
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Speaker 0: The coordinated disinformation circle is thus complete. EIP spoon feeds its embargoed blog post to The New York Times. New York Times drafts its defamatory article based upon the EIP blog post and a subsequent EIP report sites the defamatory New York Times article that it helped produce. The self fulfilling prophecy and Penrose stares of propaganda swirls round and round and is quite profound now that we've learned The Department of Homeland Security was in on it. We found out last week, thanks to representative Jim Jordan, what we've known since 2020. The federal government Intervene with social media platforms to censor and silence me and a bunch of other voices on the right. Jordan released this 4th, the weaponization of disinformation, pseudo experts, and bureaucrats, how the federal government partnered with universities to censor Americans' political speech. Now this is an unbelievable and quite complicated story involving universities, the government, something called EIP, election integrity partnership, The New York Times, and videos that we've produced, Facebook, USA Today, it's a complex, Penrose stares of propaganda, A self fulfilling prophecy, but it's very important that you follow along because this It's the playbook that they're going to use in the 2024 election. On September 29, 2020, the Election Integrity Partnership, A joint undertaking of Stanford University and the University of Washington published a blog post regarding a video report by Project Veritas that alleged unlawful voting This is where taking place among the Somali American community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This video I've talked about hundreds of times, that's the video where the guy had all the ballots on his lab. There was also a video of money exchanging hands. On September 29th, the EIP blog post described that video report as making quote false Fiable claims that were debunked without factual support, misleading, and disinformation. Remember those quotes Because there was a series of lawsuits that were filed against the New York Times and EIP that I filed when I was Veritas and we'll get to that Later, the EIP was created on July 27, 2020, just 2 months earlier, and describes itself as a quote, coalition of research entities focused on supporting real time information exchange between the research community, elected officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, and social media platforms. The EIP's purported purpose is detecting and thwarting election related misinformation and disinformation. Four entities that comprise EIP are the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington Center For Informed Public, Graphica, and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Now when the New York Times writer, Maggie Astor, published her 1st defamatory hit piece on September 29th, she relied heavily on this blog post from EIP I just told you about. The metadata of which demonstrates that Maggie Astor must have received that in advance. That means that EIP coordinated with The New York Times and helped her basically write her front page article. The article was used by independent fact Checkers in USA Today and Facebook to say the video is false. Facebook, which worked with USA Today, subsequently banned the video. So let's go to that New York Times article first paragraph, quote, deceptive video was probably part of a coordinated disinformation campaign according to researchers at Stanford University. According to experts, these experts were relied upon by The New York Times to make their playing. Now Maggie Astor was referring to this blog post written on September 29th, hashtag ballot harvesting amplification. Then last week, now November 2020 3 Jordan Broke in his report that EIP stakeholders included the federal government would submit misinformation reports. EIP would analyze the report and find similar content across platforms. EIP would submit the report to big tech often with a recommendation on how to Censor. Now we've learned that EIP was working with the Department of Homeland Security, a division called CISA, C I S A, which basically means that EIP is an arm of the federal government. The report lists us as one of the accounts being targeted my name specifically. And by the way, who is affected by all this? You. You lose out on valuable Truthful information because social media platforms gave in to this unelected, unaccountable secret group and removed critical information from the web. When you went to the Polls are when in for a 3rd booster shot. You didn't have all the information you needed to make an informed decision, and the federal government was responsible for all of that. A lot of other important voices were also censored. Seth Dillon, even the Babylon Bee, a satirical website, was targeted. Even this straight Forward tweet by a lawyer named Harmit Dhillon was censored by Twitter at the request of the Election Integrity Project. So whose idea was this? Well, Well, it was the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency or SAISA teamed up with Stanford and other universities during the height of the pandemic to monitor online speech and flag any post they deemed as mis or disinformation. The social media platforms then deleted that content or worse Banned the user. Now in terms of Sisa, one of the emails Jordan found was from Alex Stamos to Stanford University. Hey, Kate. Do you have any time this afternoon to chat? We're working on some election monitoring ideas with Saisa, and I would love your additional feedback before we go down this road. Things that should have been assembled a year ago are coming together quickly this week, Alex. Now in the blog post about EIP and a video I produced, Alex Stamos is on the byline. There is Alex Stamos, which was central to helping Maggie Astor write the article about our video. Stamos is former chief security officer at Facebook. He left the company because he disagreed with how Facebook handled Russian disinformation. Again, Facebook being the company that banned this video that we did after the New York Times piece in conjunction with Stamos. Self fulfilling prophecy or what I call a Penrose Stairs of propaganda. Alex Stamos teamed up with the SAISA director a few years ago. So let's go back to this New York Times article, and I know this is in the weeds, but this is important. This is exactly what they're going to do this coming year. Astor's omission of half of the entities involved in EIP is significant. Graphica was one of the entities involved. They're a data analysis business funded by Angel Investor Capital. It advertises its quote patented technologies and groundbreaking analytical capabilities in service of disinformation and analysis as well as digital marketing. Graphic advertises its ties to big tech. Its website notes that it provides services for Fortune 5 100 companies who rely on Graphika for purposes that include, quote, disinformation detection, leading Silicon Valley platforms to use our platform to Discover and investigate disinformation campaigns. In fact, Graphica's website provides a case study of its disinformation detection work for Facebook. Accordingly, Graphica's continued profits depend on the continued public concern about the existence of online disinformation across social media platforms. Also, Graphica advertises its EIP affiliation on its website. That includes hosting a link to EIP's report titled, the long Unfused misinformation and the 2020 elections. As with the earlier blog post, New York Times writer, Astor, used After defamatory article, the EIP report alleges that the project Veritas ballot harvesting reporting was mis or disinformation. This report Sites the defamatory New York Times article. The video's ballot harvesting claim was not well supported. As Maggie Astor of the New York Times Scribed several days later, the video claimed through unidentified sources and with no verifiable evidence that representative Ilhan Omar's campaign had collected ballots illegally. The coordinated disinformation circle is thus complete. EIP spoon feeds its embargoed blog post to the New York Times. New York Times drafts its defamatory article based upon the EIP blog post, and a subsequent EIP report Cites the defamatory New York Times article that it helped produce. The self fulfilling prophecy and Penrose stares of propaganda swirls round and round and is quite profound now that we've learned the Department of Homeland Security was in on it. And the 4th component of VIP, which like Grafica Astor or did not identify in her article, is the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, also known as DFR Lab. The Atlantic Council is a prominent foreign policy think tank. Astor lies by omission by not including this thing in her article. In other words, Astor's omissions are likely intended to conceal the interconnected relationships of the entities and their respective financial interests in the falsely alleging a disinformation campaign. The Biden connected Ukrainian energy company, Brisma, is also a major contributor To the Atlantic Council, there are substantial Facebook ties to at least 3 of the 4 components of EIP based upon our knowledge today. Facebook is one of the Atlantic Council's biggest donors. Facebook is a major customer of Graphica. And former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos is not Only one of the authors of the EIP blog post, there's his name that he writes this long blog post about me and our video. He advertises his role as the founder of Stanford Internet Observatory on the website of his cybersecurity business, Krebs Stamos Group, KSG. Like Graphica, Stamos also has a profit making interest in magnifying concerns about alleged disinformation. So going back to 2020, we sued the New York Times for defamation for the article calling the Minnesota video deceptive and disinformation. The New York Times defense was that their statements in the article, quote, were unverifiable expressions of opinion and not actionable and cannot be defamatory. Now this was despite the fact that Maggie Astor was writing for the front page of The New York Times, and The New York Times admitted in their answer to our lawsuit that Astor is not an opinion writer and is indeed a political reporter. That was actually a New York Times admission responding to our lawsuit. So we won our motion to dismiss the judge in Westchester, New York saying quote Speaker 1: Defendants argue that their statements Describing Veritas' video as deceptive, false, and without evidence were mere opinion incapable of being judged true or false. However, If a writer interjects an opinion in a news article and will seek to claim legal protections as opinion, it stands to reason that the writers should have an obligation to alert the reader that it is opinion. The articles that are the subject of this action called the video quote, Deceptive, but the dictionary definitions of quote disinformation and deceptive provided by defendant's counsel certainly apply to Pastors and Shoe's failure to note that they injected their opinions in news articles as they now claim. Speaker 0: The judge noting the complete irony of an article about disinformation that fails to mention in the article that what they're saying is an opinion, which is then used as evidence to go ban a video because it's not factual. Complete contradiction. Now the EIP blog post that I talked about earlier describing the video report as false survival claims that were debunked about factual support, misleading disinformation, all those buzzwords in that article. So we decided to sue Election Integrity Project because we can't Sue the article at The New York Times without also suing the basis by which the article was based upon. The New York Times Scaping accountability by saying, well, this is just what the experts say. So we sued the expert in Washington State, Stanford, University of Washington, they moved to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the statements about myself and Veritas are not actionable because they are, quote, not Factual statements not capable of being proven true or false and because the academic researchers' statements, quote, lack Precision. This is how these institutions are able to escape accountability under the libel laws. May of 2022, Federal judge in the Western District of Washington State granted Stanford University of Washington's motions to dismiss on all of those reasons. The judge concluded that readers of Stanford and the University of Washington's analysis would have expected to encounter the analysis reflected the author's Subjective biases, including mischaracterizations and exaggerations. The federal judge agreeing that there were mischaracterizations and exaggerations, And thus, the statements that we took issue with were not actionable because they were, quote, not capable of verification or reputation by means of objective Proof. So when the federal judge's order dismissing our lawsuit, he knows that the statement that our video had been debunked is incapable of being proven true or false. This is a federal judge talking about this. Mischaracterizations and exaggerations are part and parcel of this Subjective and biased blog post that was created. The judge saying that, quote, readers of the EIP blog post are prepared For the authors to be giving their opinion about election fraud, now I don't think that's actually the case. I don't think that most people that reading this In The New York Times have any idea about the mischaracterizations and exaggerations, they take it upon face value that these Experts, we don't know who Alex Stamos is. We don't know the genesis of these statements, mister federal judge. He also says, quote, a reasonable inference to be drawn from the complaint is that readers of the EIP blog post would have had some awareness of the allegedly left weaning biases of the authors. So Thomas s Zilli, US district judge, concluded the statements in EIP published were not actionable as a matter of defamation law, and the case was dismissed. So we intended to appeal that to the 9th Circuit, and then I was removed from Project Veritas. As to The New York Times lawsuit, what's the deal with that? Well, that went to The New York Court of Appeals, which is the state Supreme Court in New York, and there it sat With The New York Times arguing in their motion, replying to us that, quote, neither the words deception, that was the word that Astor used to By our reporting, nor the word verifiable has a precise meaning that is readily understood. Can't make that Shit up. The New York Times lawyers are arguing in the New York Supreme Court that words don't have meaning. But somehow, Words do have meaning according to them because they're using them to help ban our videos and make the case that we are a threat to democracy. It's like a case out of Orwell's double thing. An EIP, Stanford, CISA, DHS, Stamos, and Maggastro. By the way, Maggastro Scrubbed her identity off the Internet presumably because she doesn't want me to ambush her with a microphone. All of this seems predicated on there being some truth Also, it has to the verifiability of our investigative reporting. And yet they're trying to escape accountability in the court of law by saying that What they are saying cannot be verified. And of course, it costs 1,000,000 of dollars for us to pay all these lawyers that help file all these motions. And Veritas has run out of money paying all those lawyers after I left, and I believe the lawyers are owed money. Now this is a developing story. There'll be more to Port lots of information here to digest and much to understand heading into the election in 2024. Alex Stamos is certainly bound to continue peddling his panorosters of propaganda. There'll also be other organizations that we investigate. And if you have information about any of this, You can contact us at SIGNAL, our number here. You can also go to our website and submit a tip. We have high level sources that continue to work with us, and we'll continue to work with those sources as well as go undercover. Stay tuned.
Saved - November 24, 2023 at 7:24 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, Homeland Security Advisory Council, NSA Advisory Board, and National Security Institute Advisory Board have lost their plausible deniability with the addition of Ted Schlein. Furthermore, Michael Crow's ties to the ERIC voter data laundering system and his interference in Kari Lake's lawsuit raise concerns about election integrity. Censorship by DHS, CISA, GEC, and Stanford, as well as the rehiring of officials involved in election controversies, further highlight the need for transparency. Additionally, the involvement of Craigslist in hiring anti-Trump mercenaries in Phoenix is worth noting.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

It’s really unfortunate that CISA decided to add TED SCHLEIN to its CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE back in December of 2021. Because now every single bit of their PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY is completely out the window. *CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee *HOMELAND SECURITY Advisory Council *NSA Advisory Board *NATIONAL SECURITY INSTITUTE Advisory Board AND… 💥COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS 💥INQTEL BOARD OF TRUSTEES 💥UPENN BOARD OF TRUSTEES 💥UPENN DEAN OF ADVISORS, ENGINEERING (🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬) Yep. That’s just about gonna do it. Thanks.✌️

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

I’ll just go ahead and park this here while I’m at it.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

It’s really unfortunate that we now know Michael Crow (InQTel, CIA, Hunter Biden) is directly tied to the ERIC voter data laundering system. Especially considering he blatantly interfered with Kari Lake’s lawsuit a couple months back, when he intentionally sent his theater chairperson to bullshit America on the witness stand. Interfering with American elections AND elections lawsuits is going to be tough for him to weasel out of, given the embarrassing caliber of personnel within our current CIA. I’m sure that’ll never be included in any of the lawsuits being crafted right now. (He’s getting the everloving f*ck sued out of him.)

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

Make sure to save this page to cold storage before Easterly has her goons delete it. Thanks, team! https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-names-23-members-new-cybersecurity-advisory-committee

CISA Names 23 Members to New Cybersecurity Advisory Committee | CISA CISA announced the appointment of the first 23 members of the Agency’s new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, a group that will advise and provide cisa.gov

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

CENSORSHIP: DHS, CISA, GEC and STANFORD

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HUNDREDS of secret reports show how @DHSgov’s @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), @Stanford and others worked together to censor AMERICANS before the 2020 election, including true information, jokes, and opinions. 🧵 THREAD:

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

When elections officials from (former) ERIC states get fired for destroying voter rolls and overseeing sabotaged elections, it’s totally normal to see them pop right back up just MONTHS LATER with a new job at CISA.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

You know how KEITH INGRAM was just fired a few months ago from his post in the SOS’s Elections Administration office in order to help RESTORE ELECTION INTEGRITY in TEXAS? Yeah, he just popped back up with a new job. At CISA.🤣🤣🤣 (That’ll help our case for destroying them too.) @merissahansen17 @KevinMoncla @TxSaving

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

💥NOTHING TO SEE HERE — JUST CRAIGSLIST hiring ANTI-TRUMP MERCENARIES in PHOENIX. (CRAIG NEWMARK is the founder of Craigslist.) https://t.co/TBV2TaRfSa

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

Maricopa pls. Stop embarrassing America, ffs.🤦🏻‍♂️ Also… Craigslist, eh? (That will be important.)

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

They gon’ toss Craig into his cell like this lmao https://t.co/wBCLvdeNSL

@weed_obnoxious_ - Weed

@DecentFiJC You found an elf 🎄🎄🎄🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/wPDVjdhlAR

Saved - November 29, 2023 at 9:01 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
Newly released emails suggest that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demanded censorship of certain narratives, resembling the tactics employed by military contractors. These actions raise concerns about interference in the 2020 election. The obtained documents shed light on the motivations behind DHS' anti-disinformation efforts, revealing a focus on narrative control rather than truth. Despite denials, the emails show that DHS and its non-profit partners reported political speech, including jokes and hyperbole, to social media companies for potential censorship. This raises questions about the influence of the "Cyber Threat Intelligence League" and the true intentions behind suppressing dissenting viewpoints.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

US Dept. of Homeland Security officials insist they didn't demand censorship, but they did. And now, newly released emails suggest they demanded the censorship of whole "narratives," just like CTIL's military contractors did, and thus interfered in the 2020 election. https://t.co/AnFZu6RhQm

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

US Government Officials Sought To Censor Narratives and Interfere In 2020 Election, Newly Released Emails Show Department of Homeland Security officials and contractors urged censorship not just of “disinformation” but of stories they didn’t like by @galexybrane & @shellenberger Yesterday Public and Racket published the first installment of the CTIL Files, documents that show the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex through the work of military and government contractors in what they called the “Cyber Threat Intelligence League,” or CTIL, for short. The story went viral on X, formerly Twitter, and on Substack. All told, the story has been viewed millions of times. Now, newly released Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emails, obtained by the House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop, suggest that the federal government’s methods of information control closely resembled those developed and promoted by CTIL. These methods amounted to an attempt at election interference. The trove of documents obtained by Public provides a window into the real motivations behind anti-disinformation work performed by DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Far from being about protecting truth and removing falsehoods, government-backed censorship has always been about narrative control. This censorship is part of a larger political influence operation to shape public opinion and quash dissent. US government officials deny this. In his deposition for the Missouri v. Biden censorship lawsuit, Brian Scully, the head of CISA’s Mis- Dis-, and Malinformation (MDM) team, insisted that the agency had merely engaged in “switchboarding,” not censorship. Switchboarding was a process in which CISA simply forwarded “misinformation” from election officials to social media companies. Scully and CISA claim they were not involved in companies’ decisions to censor content. The CISA-funded non-profit, Center for Internet Security (CIS), also sent alleged misinformation to social media companies. CIS has previously claimed that its definition of election mis- and disinformation did not include “content that is polarizing, biased, partisan or contains viewpoints expressed about elections or politics,” “inaccurate statements about an elected or appointed official, candidate, or political party,” or “broad, non-specific statements about the integrity of elections or civic processes that do not reference a specific current election administration activity.” But the DHS emails reveal that CISA and CIS did, in fact, consider such content to be subject to censorship. The emails show that CISA and its non-profit partners reported political speech to social media companies, including jokes, hyperbole, and the types of “viewpoints” and “non-specific statements” that CIS once claimed it would not censor. Using the pretext of “election security,” DHS sought to censor politically inconvenient speech about election legitimacy. Why were officials seemingly influenced by CTIL’s approach to disfavored narratives and “cognitive security”? What precisely was going on?

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

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@TheChiefNerd - Chief Nerd

🚨 Rep. Elise Stefanik: “Do you believe that this censorship is a form of election interference?” Michael Shellenberger: “Absolutely it is. There’s no question in my mind.” @RepStefanik @shellenberger https://t.co/Bw04OSG7Ti

Video Transcript AI Summary
The Aspen Institute held a workshop attended by major media and social media platforms to discourage coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. This was concerning as there was no evidence of the laptop's existence, yet efforts were made to influence media coverage. Content moderators on platforms like Twitter have significant power in determining what Americans can say and see. It is inappropriate for unelected bureaucrats or tech companies to collude in influencing speech and information. The government and big tech should not decide who can speak on social media platforms; it should be decided by the people. This censorship can be seen as a form of election interference, as seen in the CTI League case where individuals displayed strong partisan bias.
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Speaker 0: This was the weirdest thing. We discovered that Aspen Institute had created a workshop that it was attended by basically all of the major media, including as well as all the major social media platforms to basically pre bunk in advance the Hunter Biden laptop even though it had not been there was no evidence that, that it existed outside of the fact that the FBI knew that they had it because they got it in December 2019. So to have the aspen as to trying to persuade people not to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in August September of 2020 was quite chilling and disturbing to see. Speaker 1: These content moderators at social media platforms like Twitter wield an enormous amount of power in terms of determining not only what Americans can say, But also what Americans can see. Do you believe, Mr. Taibbi and Mr. Schellenberg, that it's appropriate for unelected bureaucrats Or these tech companies to collude to influence what Americans can say or read? Speaker 0: Absolutely not. And I wanted to stress again that all this was happening secretively with the blessing of the Department of Homeland Security with them sending, things to, from this is from the EIP at Stanford to, you know, to to Twitter and Facebook saying, We repeat our recommendations that this account be suspended. We recommend labeling all instances of this article. We recommend that you flag as falseness all these demands being made secretly without any public review. My view is that we don't, the government doesn't decide who can speak in the town square. Why should the government be deciding who can speak on social media platforms? We The People should decide our own content as adults' legal content. It should not be decided by either government or big tech. Speaker 1: And Mr. Taibbi, Mr. Schellenberg, do you believe that this censorship is a form of election interference? Speaker 0: Absolutely, it is. There's no question in my mind. Mr. Taibbi? Speaker 2: Yes. I think it certainly can be. And then the latest story that we did on the CTI League, we saw the over partisanship of the people involved in this operation. That was actually the reason the whistleblower came forward. The people involved, just The one of the quote was, they assumed everyone who was smart thought the way they did. They talked about the potential election of Donald Trump being an end of the world event. They talked about the wackadoodles who actually watch Fox News. And even as somebody who doesn't vote for Republicans, it was shocking to me to see this. And I think this was a consistent theme of not just the CTI League, but most of the censorship organizations that we looked at, they all tend to drift in one direction.
Saved - February 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a censorship consortium that censored millions of social media posts during the 2020 election and COVID-19. The censorship office, housed in the DHS, aimed to counter misinformation and disinformation but ended up suppressing domestic dissent and the populist movement led by President Trump. The consortium, led by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), monitored tech platforms, labeled tweets as "misinformation," and targeted entire "misinformation narratives." The EIP flagged popular right-wing YouTube channels and received taxpayer funds for domestic censorship. The DHS corrupted its mission by designating domestic disinformation as cyber attacks. The consortium collaborated with tech companies to censor speech related to the election process and vote-by-mail. The extra ballots cast by mail swung the election to the EIP's preferred candidate. The consortium expanded its focus to censor COVID-19 disinformation. Elon Musk criticized the censorship network as a "propaganda platform." The national security state plays a significant role in censorship and election interference in the United States.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

🚨THREAD: @MikeBenzCyber speaks with @TuckerCarlson about the Department of Homeland Security-backed censorship consortium that censored millions of social media posts during the 2020 election and COVID-19. The 2020 election and COVID-19 were the two most censored events in American history. Mike Benz outlines how the government established a permanent domestic censorship office under the pretext of countering misinformation. and disinformation. Initially considered for the State Department, CIA, and FBI, the censorship office found its home in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), utilizing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). DHS classified elections as critical infrastructure and online misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation as cybersecurity attacks. The original goal of countering Russian disinformation shifted to suppressing domestic dissent and the populist movement led by President Trump. Examining the 2020 election's censorship strategy, Benz details CISA's collaboration with Stanford University, University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council through the Election Integrity Partnership. The censorship consortium employed coercive tactics, leveraging its deputized status to pressure tech companies through government threats. A critical element was the seven-month pre-censorship campaign before the 2020 election. The consortium compelled social media companies to introduce a new "delegitimization" violation, targeting content challenging faith in mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot drop boxes. The overarching goal was narrative control, preventing doubts about a Biden victory and avoiding a crisis akin to the 2000 Bush-Gore election. Anticipating Biden's victory hinging on mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot dropboxes, the consortium precensored any questioning of the election's legitimacy, particularly if Trump appeared to win on election night but later lost due to late-arriving mail-in ballots. The so-called "Red Mirage-Blue Shift event." The thread continues below.👇

Video Transcript AI Summary
The speaker discusses how the US Department of Defense censored Americans during the 2020 election cycle. They explain that a group within the Atlantic Council and the foreign policy establishment pushed for a permanent domestic censorship government office to counter misinformation and disinformation. This office was eventually established within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through an obscure cybersecurity agency called CISA. The speaker details how this agency, with the combined powers of the CIA and FBI, classified online misinformation as a cybersecurity attack on democracy. They further explain how Stanford University, the University of Washington, Graphica, and the Atlantic Council, all Pentagon-associated institutions, were involved in a coordinated mass censorship campaign to pre-censor any disputes about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots. This campaign involved pressuring tech companies to adopt new terms of service speech violation bans. The speaker suggests that this censorship operation was orchestrated to ensure the perceived legitimacy of a Biden victory in the case of a red mirage blue shift event. They also mention the connection between this operation and the impeachment of Trump in late 2019.
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Speaker 0: So you're saying the Pentagon, our Pentagon, the US Department of Defense, censored Americans during the 2020 election cycle? Speaker 1: Yes. They did this they oh, they did this through the so so there's the 2 most censored events in human history, I would argue to date, are the 2020 election and the COVID-nineteen pandemic. And I'll explain how I arrived there. So the 2020 election was determined by mail in ballots. And I'm not weighing into the substance of whether mail in ballots were or were not a legitimate or safe and reliable form of voting. That's a completely independent topic from my perspective than the censorship issue 1. But the censorship of mail in ballots is really one of the most extraordinary stories in our American history, I would argue. What happened was is you had this plot within the Department of Homeland Security. Now this gets back to what we were talking about with the State Department's Global Engagement Center. You had this group within the Atlantic Council and the foreign policy establishment, which began arguing in 2017 for the need for a permanent domestic censorship government office to serve as a quarterback for what they called a whole of society counter misinformation, counter disinformation alliance. That just means censorship, the counter misinfo. But the whole of their whole society model explicitly proposed that we need every single asset within society to be mobilized in a whole of society effort to stop misinformation online. It was that much of an existential threat to democracy. And so but they fixated in 2017 that it had to be centered within the government because only the government would have the clout and the coercive threat powers and the perceived authority to be able to tell the social media companies what to do, to be able to summon an NG, a government funded NGO swarm to create that media surround sound, to be able to arm an astroturf army of fact checkers and to be able to liaise and connect all these different censorship industry actors into a cohesive unified whole. And the Atlantic Council initially proposed with this blueprint called forward defense, it's not offense, it's forward defense guys. They initially proposed running this out of the State Department's Global Engagement Center because they had so many assets there who were so effective at censorship under Rick Stengel's feed and under the Obama administration. But they said, oh, we're not going to be able to get away with that because we don't really have a national security predicate and it's supposed to be foreign facing. We can't really use that hook unless we have a sort of national security one. Then they contemplated parking it at the CIA and they said, well, actually there's two reasons we can't do that. CIA is foreign facing. We can't really establish a counterintelligence threat to bring it home domestically. Also, we're going to need essentially tens of thousands of people involved in this operation, spanning this whole society model. You can't really run a clandestine operation that way. So they said, okay, well, what about the FBI? They said, well, the FBI would be great. It's domestic. But the problem is, is the FBI is supposed to be the intelligence arm of the justice department. And we and what we're dealing with here are not acts of law breaking. It's basically support for Trump or if left wing populists had risen to power like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, I have no doubt they would have done in the UK, they would have done the same thing to him there. They targeted Jeremy Corbyn and other left wing populist NATO skeptical groups in Europe. But in the US, it was all Trump. And so essentially what they said is, well, the only other domestic intelligence equity we have in the US besides the FBI is the DHS. So we are going to essentially take the CIA's power to rig and bribe foreign media organizations, which is a power they've had since the day they were born in 1947 and we're going to combine that with the domestic jurisdiction of the FBI by putting it at DHS. So DHS was basically deputized. It was empowered through this obscure little cyber security agency to have the combined powers that the CIA has abroad with the jurisdiction of the FBI at home. And the way they did this, how did an obscure little cybersecurity agency get this power, was they did a funny little series of switcheroos. So this little thing called CISA, they didn't call it the Disinformation Governance Board, they didn't call it the censorship agency, they gave it an obscure little name that no one would notice called the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, whose founder said, we care about security so much it's in our name twice. Everybody sort of closed their eyes and pretended that's what it was. But it was created by Active Congress in 2018 because of the perceived threat that Russia had hacked the 2016 election, had physically hacked it and so we needed the cyber security power to be able to deal with that. And essentially on the heels of a CIA memo on January 6, 2017 and a same day DHS executive order on January 6, 2017 arguing that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election and a DHS mandate saying that elections are now critical infrastructure, you had this new power within DHS to say that cybersecurity attacks on elections are now our purview. And then they did 2 cute things. 1, they said mis, dis and malinformation online are a form of cybersecurity attack. They are a cyber attack because they are happening online. And they said, well, actually Russian disinformation is we're actually protecting democracy in elections. We don't need a Russian predicate after Russiagate died. So just like that, you had the cybersecurity agency be able to legally make the argument that your tweets about mail in ballots, if you undermine public faith and confidence in them as a legitimate form of voting, you are now conducting a cyber attack on US critical infrastructure by by articulating misinformation on Twitter. And just like that now what they did then is they Wait. Speaker 0: So in other words, complaining about election fraud is the same as taking down our power grid? Speaker 1: Yes. You could literally be on your toilet seat at 9:30 on on a Thursday night and tweet, I think that mail in ballots are illegitimate. And you were essentially then caught up in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security classifying you as conducting a cyber attack on US critical infrastructure because you were doing misinformation online in the cyber realm and misinformation is a cyber attack on democracy when it undermines public faith and confidence in our democratic elections and our democratic institutions. They would end up going far beyond that. They would actually define democratic institutions as being another thing that was a cybersecurity attack to undermine. And lo and behold, the mainstream media is considered a democratic institution. That would come later. What ended up happening was in advance of the 2020 election, starting in April of 2020, although this goes back before, you had this essentially never Trump, neocon, Republican, DHS working with essentially NATO on the national security side and essentially the DNC, if you will, to use DHS as the launching point for a government coordinated mass censorship campaign spanning every single social media platform on earth in order to pre censor the ability to dispute the legitimacy of mail in ballots. And here's how they did this. They aggregated 4 different institutions, Stanford University, the University of Washington, a company called Graphica and the Atlantic Council. Now all 4 of these institutions, the centers within them were essentially Pentagon cutouts. You had at the Stanford Internet Observatory, it was actually run by Michael McFaul. If you know, Michael McFaul, he was the US ambassador to Russia under the, under the, Obama administration. And he personally authored a 7 Step Playbook for how to successfully orchestrate a color revolution that is in part of that involved maintaining total control over media and social media, juicing up the civil society outfits, calling elections illegitimate in order to remind you, all of these people were professional Russi gators and professional election delegitimizers in 2016. And then we'll get that in a sec. So Stanford University, nominally the Stanford Airm Observatory under Michael McFaul was run by Alex Stamos, who was formerly a Facebook executive, who coordinated with ODNI and the, with respect to Russiagate, you know, taking down Russian propaganda at Facebook. So this is another, liaison essentially to the National Security State. And under Alex Stamos at Stanford Internet, Internet Observatory was Renee de Resta who started her career in the CIA and wrote the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian disinformation. And there's a lot more there that I'll be I'll get to another time. But the next institution was the University of Washington, which is essentially the Bill Gates University in Seattle, who is headed by Kate Starbird, who is basically 3 generations of military brass, who got her PhD in Crisis Informatics, essentially doing social media surveillance for the Pentagon and getting DARPA funding and working essentially with the National Security State then repurposed to take on mail in ballots. The 3rd firm, Graphica, got $7,000,000 in Pentagon grants and got their start as part of the Pentagon's Minerva Initiative. The Minerva Initiative is the psychological warfare research center of the Pentagon. This group was doing social media spying and narrative mapping for the Pentagon until the 2016 election happened and then were repurposed into a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to censor 22,000,000 Trump Tweets, pro Trump Tweets about mail in ballots. And then the 4th institution as I mentioned was the Atlantic Council who's got 7 CIA directors on board. So one after another, it is exactly what Ben Rhodes described during the Obama era as the blob, the foreign policy establishment. It's it's the Defense Department, the State Department or the CIA every single time. And of course, this is because they were threatened by Trump's foreign policy. And so while much of the censorship looks like it's coming domestically, it's actually by our foreign facing Department of Dirty Tricks Color Revolution Blob who are professional government toplers who were then basically descended on the 2020 election. Now they did this. The they explicitly said the head of this election integrity partnership on tape and and and my foundation clipped them and it's been played before congress and it's in, you know, a part of the Missouri v Biden lawsuit now. But they explicitly said on tape that they were set up to do what the government was banned from doing itself. And then they articulated a multistep framework in order to coerce all the tech companies to take censorship actions. They said on tape, the tech companies would not have done but for their pressure, which involved using threats of government force because they were the deputized arm of the government. They had a formal partnership with the DHS, they were able to use DHS's proprietary domestic disinformation switchboard to immediately talk to top brass at all the tech companies for takedowns and they bragged on tape about how they got the tech companies to all systematically adopt a new terms of service speech violation ban called delegitimization, which meant any tweet, any YouTube video, any Facebook post, any TikTok video, any Discord post, any Twitch video, anything on the internet that undermine public faith and confidence in the use of mail in ballots or early voting drop boxes or ballot tabulation issues on Election Day was a prima facia terms of service violation policy under this new delegitimization policy that they only adopted because of pass through government pressure from the Election Integrity Partnership, which they bragged about on tape, including the grid that they used to do this and simultaneously invoking threats of government breaking them up or government stopping doing favors for the tech companies unless they did this as well as inducing crisis PR by working with their media allies. And they said the government DHS could not do that themselves and so they set up this this basically constellation of state department, Pentagon, and and IC networks to run this pre censorship campaign which by their own math had 22,000,000 tweets on Twitter alone and mind you, they did this on 15 platforms. This is 100 of millions of posts which were all scanned and banned or throttled so that they cannot be amplified or they exist in a sort of limited state purgatory or had these frictions affixed to them in the form of fact checking labels where you couldn't actually click through the thing or you had to it was it was an inconvenience to be able to share it. Now they did this 7 months before the election because at the time, they they were worried about the perceived legitimacy of a Biden victory in the case of a so called red mirage blue shift event. They knew the only way that Biden would be able to would win mathematically was through the disproportionate Democrat use of mail in ballots. They knew there would be a crisis because it was going to look extremely weird if Trump looked like he won by 7 states in you know, and then 3 days later, it comes out actually the election switch. I mean, that that would put the election crisis of the Bush Gore election, on a level of steroids that the national security say said, well, the the public will not be prepared for. So what we need to do is we need to in advance, we need to pre censor the ability to even question legitimacy. This took out Wait. Speaker 0: Wait. May may I ask you to pause right there? Speaker 1: The key Speaker 0: influences. So what you're saying is what you're suggesting is they knew the outcome of the election 7 months before it was held. Speaker 1: It looks very bad. Certainly what they did That's it. Speaker 0: Yes, Mike. It does look very bad. Speaker 1: You know, and especially when you combine this with the fact that this is right on the heels of the impeachment, the Pentagon led CIA led impeachment. It was Eric Cimarello from the CIA and it was the Vindman's from the Pentagon who led the impeachment of Trump in late 2019 over, you know, an alleged phone call around withholding Ukraine aid. This same network, which came straight out of the Pentagon, hybrid warfare network military censorship network created after the first, you know, Ukraine crisis in 2014 were the lead architects of the Ukraine impeachment in 2019 and then essentially came back on steroids as part of the 2020 election censorship operation. But

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2/ The DHS outsourced censorship to the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), comprised of four organizations: Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika. During the 2020 election: •120 analysts monitored 15 tech platforms •22 Million tweets labeled “misinformation” •Entire “misinformation narratives” targeted for platform-wide throttling The EIP claimed every "repeat spreader of election misinformation" was a supporter of President Trump.

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3/ This Orwellian speech control consortium also flagged popular populist-right YouTube channels, including @scrowder, @BlazeTV, @JudicialWatch, and even the @GOP War Room, as “mis- and disinformation” spreaders. The @FFO_Freedom report comprehensively details the US government’s role in outsourcing censorship to this public-private network. Founder @MikeBenzCyber extensively documented the individuals involved and the flow of taxpayer funds ($40M) to domestic censorship.

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4/ The DHS quietly corrupted CISA's mission when it designated domestic disinformation as cyber attacks on "critical cognitive infrastructure." @FFO_Freedom@MikeBenzCyber @TuckerCarlson

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The Russians weaponized social media by manipulating public opinion with biased or fake stories. Domestic disinformation is a bigger issue than foreign efforts. In 2016, the Russian content wasn't very persuasive, but they learned they could use existing US content. The focus should shift from foreign to domestic disinformation, as most problems stem from how we interact online and the norms around political speech. The biggest threat to the 2020 election is domestic disinformation, not foreign influence. The impact of foreign interference is minimal compared to the overwhelming domestic disinformation in the US landscape.
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Speaker 0: What the Russians have done is weaponized, social media. The issue is not just the Russians, but frankly, domestic disinformation. Speaker 1: How do you think that they've weaponized social media? Speaker 0: Literally using it to manipulate public opinion, to put stories out that are biased or phony in order to drive public opinion a certain way. Probably more domestic generation of disinformation content is occurring in foreign. Frank, I think in in 2016, it wasn't that clear that the Russian efforts in terms of the actual persuasiveness of the content was all that sophisticated. I think what the Russians may well have learned is they don't have to make the content up. We have people in the US who will do it. Speaker 2: There's really 2 totally different disinformation attacks in 2016. The Internet Research Agency created these personas to take over existing groups in the United States. And then once they had established that, they would then try to push the most radical possible position. I think we talk way too much about foreign influence. I'm gonna be honest. I think we talk way too much about it because it's sexy and it's fun and it's it's a little bit cold worry. But the truth is that the vast majority of these problems okay. The problems are information environment or domestic problems. They're problems in how, we interact with each other of the norms that have been created about online political speech, about amplification issues, about how now politicians are utilizing platforms. And so I think, we we have like an 80 20 breakdown of 80%. We talk about foreign and 20 domestic. I think that needs to be flipped. Speaker 3: The Kremlin's influence operations has a a particular resonance for me because in June of 2016, I broke the story of the Russian hack of the Democratic National treaty reporter and I'm more focused on the foreign side, I I think the most significant immediate threat to the 2020 election is the domestic threat, domestic infer disinformation, domestic influence, whatever you wanna call it. Speaker 1: We are lost. It's just because of this little little pity pinprick that was put in by a foreign country. It's overwhelmingly more domestic than foreign. This time around in 2020. They must wonder what they could possibly say that would change anyone's mind that's not already being said in the American landscape.

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5/ But CISA had a First Amendment problem. The US government cannot sandblast millions of voters off the Internet because of their speech about elections. CISA needed private sector partners to do dirty work. And that's where EIP stepped in: "CISA at the time lacked the funding and legal authorizations to go do the kinds of work that would be necessary to truly understand how election disinformation was operating... We were able to pull together pretty quickly a project between these four different institutions to try to fill the gap of the things the government could not do themselves." @FFO_Freedom@MikeBenzCyber @TuckerCarlson

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CISA lacked funding and legal authority to address election disinformation. A project involving 4 institutions was created to fill this gap. Government-tech cooperation has been effective, producing 60-70 papers on takedowns. Challenges include maintaining this collaboration. The federal government was unprepared to handle election misinformation and disinformation due to limitations in agencies like the IC and FBI. CISA lacked real capability and faced legal authority issues, including First Amendment concerns.
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Speaker 0: This is not because CISA didn't care about this information, but at the time, they lacked, both kind of the funding and the legal authorizations, to go do the kinds of work that would be necessary to truly understand how election disinformation was operating. So because of the feedback, and the ideas from these, this group, we were able to pull together pretty quickly a project between these 4 different institutions to try to fill the gap of the things that the government cannot do themselves. The cooperation between government and tech platforms has been very effective in this. These institutions put together probably read, what, 60 or 70 papers over the last 12 months, talking about the outcome of those takedowns. I think the two challenges here are 1, how do we maintain this? Right? Speaker 1: The federal government wasn't prepared to identify and analyze election mis and disinfo. There was no clear federal lead to coordinate the work because the IC, of course, is rightly limited to a foreign focus, and the FBI also has very specific designations limitations. CISA had created support but had no real capability. There were unclear legal authorities, including very real First Amendment questions. There were unclear legal authorities unclear legal authority

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6/ So, who are these unelected bureaucrats who get to play judge, jury, and executioner and control the thoughts of millions of Americans? “The main character in the CISA side of this story is its then-director, Chris Krebs.” Krebs's political bias and his affinity for domestic censorship: •Called Trump a national security threat •Pleased with #BidenLaptop censorship •Passionately censored covid-19 and elections •Wanted lawyers and doctors disbarred •Wanted conservative media bankrupted @FFO_Freedom @MikeBenzCyber

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The speaker discusses the spread of vaccine and election disinformation on social media platforms like Facebook. They emphasize the need for transparency in algorithms and engagement to hold platforms accountable. The discussion also touches on misinformation surrounding Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, and COVID-19. The speaker highlights the importance of self-policing by groups like lawyers and state medical boards to combat false information. Additionally, they mention the need for investigations into profiteering off the pandemic.
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Speaker 0: The dirty dozen or whatever they're calling it. Some of those have been, deplatformed. But the problem is, particularly for vaccine disinformation, it is metastasized. And it is now you mentioned it earlier about the top down and the bottom up, the grassroots piece. It is now so pervasive that it exists just naturally within the ecosystem on Facebook and elsewhere. And that's where we need the platform to be more transparent in how their algorithms work, how engagement works so that outside security experts and researchers can dig in and hold them accountable, that us as consumers of these platforms can hold them accountable and demand better. That's what would we do if the Russians were doing this? The oath that we pledged coming into office as a federal official is that you uphold and defend the constitution from threats foreign and domestic. We upheld our oath. Speaker 1: Carried it out. So is Donald Trump a domestic threat? Speaker 0: There is disinformation that he is spreading. The Hunter Biden laptop, that was remarkably similar to a hack and leak operation from 2016. It was just in a different model. And again, whether it was Russia or not, I don't know, I don't care. The big shifts that I saw from 2016 to 2020 was the reaction across media and how they did not uncritically and breathlessly report these things. Speaker 1: Misinformation. The the the surgeon general put his finger on misinformation in terms of blocking people getting to vaccines. You fought a lot of misinformation with respect to elections. Do you see similarities between those 2? Speaker 0: Absolutely. We need, for instance, also, you know, self policing across groups like lawyers. So state bar associations can take action against those that sponsor the 60 plus frivolous lawsuits or whatever percentage of those that were frivolous. You can look at COVID, you can see state medical boards similarly took action against, a number of doctors that were grifting on various solutions to COVID. So we've got to have a much broader focus. It's not just the platforms. It's not just, it's not just the government, but there's also the rest of society that can wait. There are election officials that have said we have to cancel our Dominion contracts in order to restore confidence in the local citizenry, the the local voters based on nothing. So the damage is done. And so to your point about, you know, rethinking First Amendment jurisprudence, I don't know what that looks like, but the system's broken at some point. In part because even in November December, I guarantee you that courts would not have intervened because it was still a political matter. And they wouldn't want to get in the middle of that until December 14th in the certification deadline. So I think there's something here that's not matching up and I, you know, and I hope they win. I hope they get their 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of dollars and I hope they people put people out of business or bankrupt them. What what we are seeing here, though, is an ecosystem of information purveyors. Some of this is politically motivated. Some of it is the anti vaxx community. Some of it is, you know, profiteering. And I I tend to believe that there's a lot of that going on here. Profit and Speaker 1: people selling quack. Yeah. Speaker 0: And and there was a there was a Washington Post piece the other day about, the FTC, a former FTC commissioner, Terrell McSweeney, that asked the FTC to investigate some of this, some of the profiteering off of, the pandemic. And I think that is an incredibly important development in how we're gonna move beyond not just, the pandemic related disinformation, but also some of the, election related disinformation.

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7/ Alex Stamos, a former Facebook exec, is the founder of the EIP censorship network and Krebs' business partner. Stamos is a member of the CFR, a member of the Aspen Institute, and the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and he loves censoring his political opponents.

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8/ In Jan. 2021, Alex Stamos compared “over half of the Republicans in Congress” to ISIS. He called on Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast to block OANN and Newsmax and said: “We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.”

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We need to focus on addressing violent extremists and limiting the reach of radical conservative influencers on platforms like YouTube and Facebook. Companies must decide if they want to promote disinformation. Additionally, we should reconsider the widespread distribution of networks like OANN and Newsmax by major providers like Verizon and AT&T to prevent pushing radical views onto the public. It's about allowing people to seek information on their own terms, rather than forcing it upon them. Translation: It is important to address violent extremists and limit the reach of radical conservative influencers on social media platforms. Companies need to decide if they want to promote misinformation. Additionally, we should reconsider the widespread distribution of networks like OANN and Newsmax by major providers like Verizon and AT&T to prevent pushing radical views onto the public. It's about allowing people to seek information on their own terms, rather than forcing it upon them.
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Speaker 0: Now, we're talking about domestic audience in the United States. And the challenge is going to be partially that, you know, ISIS did not have a domestic constituency in the United States Congress. But there is over half of the Republicans in Congress voted to overturn the election. And there will be a continual political pressure on the the companies to not take it seriously. So I think first, you have to focus on violent extremists, and those companies have to be brave in that way. And second, we have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger day time a larger audience than daytime CNN. And they are extremely radical and pushing extremely, radical views. And so it's up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they wanna be effectively cable networks for disinformation. And then we're gonna have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem. You know, that these companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT and T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes. This is, you know, allowing people to seek out information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces, I think is where we're gonna have to go

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9/ Kate Starbird is the head of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public director and CISA’s “disinformation” advisor subcommittee. US government grants have funded her work on domestic censorship since 2013.

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10/ The EIP's Starbird used advanced monitoring AI to map out entire networks of people who spread a narrative. This allowed the EIP to stalk every chain in what they deemed a "false narrative" and to systematically censor entire belief systems at scale: @MikeBenzCyber @FFO_Freedom@TuckerCarlson

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This claim went viral through influential social media accounts and right-wing media outlets. Tim Cast, an American citizen journalist, and the Gateway Pundit were key players in spreading false claims of voter fraud. President Trump's son also amplified the false claim, which eventually reached his allies and family members. Online participants exaggerated small issues like stolen mail to sow doubt in the election.
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Speaker 0: Let's look at how, this claim went viral. These are plots that we were using almost for every incident that we that we picked up from this collaborative group. Our team, every time we picked up an incident, we would plot it in this way so we could see how it went viral. And what these do, this is a cumulative graph, that shows the cumulative spread of a particular kind of claim. And what it has is on the y axis is how many times it's been shared and on the x axis is time. And what we do is we plot each tweet on this, as a shape, depending on what kind of, like what tweet type is this, if it's a retweet or a quote tweet or whatever. And we size each tweet by the size of the audience of that account. And what this allows us to do is some, not always, sometimes things take off with the random account somehow, but often you'll see these high, follower accounts change the, the, change the trajectory of a tweet, helping it go viral. So it allows us to see who is really influential in the spread of, in the spread of a claim. And so, and then, so his original post was repeatedly retweeted, remixed, and reframed as it spread through other, influential social media accounts and right and, right wing media outlets. There we have like, an account of Tim Cast, I think, really sort of changes the trajectory. And he's a American citizen journalist, and a political commentator, who actually gained influence through his coverage of Occupy Wall Street. But he's now aligned with right wing populism in the United States. Another influential account in this incident belonged to the Gateway Pundit, a hyper partisan media outlet that repeatedly spread false or misleading claims of voter fraud. In fact, they, I think they have something like 40 different incidents. Their domain is cited in our data of 40 different claims of, of voter fraud of different kinds. And, eventually this false claim was amplified by the Twitter account of President Trump's son as well, which is a common kind of piece of the trajectory. Often it would eventually reach some of his closest allies and family members and be promoted from there. So online participants repeatedly activated to produce and spread information that sowed out in the election. Highlighting irregularities, and exaggerating the impact of small issues like stolen mail and spreading false like absolute falsehood.

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11/ In October 2018, Starbird told her Facebook followers to vote Democrat to hold Trump responsible for "corruption and collusion" and his "racist, anti-LGBT agenda." Starbird claimed Trump's “nationalism” didn’t stand for “patriotism” but instead stood for “white supremacy." She implored her Facebook followers to vote Democrat to stop "the rise of fascism and white nationalism." "Your children's lives depend upon it," she explained. "We are facing a wholly different kind of threat." This was one of the people in charge of censoring the 2020 election.

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12/ Kate Starbird heads CISA's disinformation advisory panel with Vijaya Gadde, the former top lawyer at Twitter, who famously banned the former President and opposed @elonmusk proposal to roll back Twitter censorship policies.

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13/ Graham Brookie is the figure who led the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and a previous Obama White House National Security Council member. The Atlantic Council is a NATO think-tank with seven living CIA directors as members. Brookie, a government-funded disinformation expert, dedicated much of his time during President Trump’s years in the White House to promoting the false narrative that the President of the United States was a Russian agent controlled by Vladimir Putin. In Oct. 2020, Brookie would call the #BidenLaptop “laundered unverified misinfo.” When DNI John Ratcliffe stated that the laptop was legitimate, Brookie publicly condemned Ratcliffe’s “credibility” and accused him of “politicizing intel.”

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14/ Incredibly, the Atlantic Council's disinfo lab tasked by the DHS to censor the 2020 election tweeted its director's disdain for President Trump days before the election. "Trump is hands down the most significant accelerant and amplifier for disinformation in the election."

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15/ Ben Nimmo, a Facebook exec, leads the censorship role at Graphika and is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab. He was a NATO press officer and was briefly listed as a senior fellow at the UK Institute for Statecraft. “Donald Trump is right that someone is trying to rig the US election, but it is not Hillary Clinton: it is the Kremlin, and Trump is an accomplice, whether or not he realizes it,” Nimmo lamented in 2016. The Pentagon awarded Graphika $5 million in 2021 for more censorship of "disinformation."

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16/ In June 2019, at an Atlantic Council conference, Nimmo trained journalists on how to spot “disinformation” in Trump tweets and Brexit ads. Senior journalists were encouraged to hold up placards reading “Bullsh*t” to Trump tweets and Brexit slogans. @MikeBenzCyber @TuckerCarlson @FFO_Freedom

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The session discusses the use of misinformation tactics, including dismiss, distort, distract, and dismay. Participants analyze quotes to identify these tactics. Trump is cited as a prime example of spreading disinformation. The group also introduces a fifth tactic, divide, to the discussion. The audience actively engages in identifying these tactics throughout the session.
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Speaker 0: And now for the most interestingly named session of this entire event. Speaker 1: It wasn't lies. It was just bullshit. Anybody who works in this space will, I think, acknowledge that in any information operation, it's not just lies. You take a grain of truth and they will build a pearl of disinformation around it. When we're in this space, there isn't a simple binary true or false. There are all kinds of shades of meaning in between. Now, there are various different ways of modeling how you can identify the ways in which people are trying to twist the story. And the model that I use, because it's short and because, frankly, I developed it, is the 4 d's, dismiss, distort, distract, and dismay. These are the 4 responses that we see time and again, which are deployed to attack people like us who come out with uncomfortable evidence. Speaker 2: All of you should have some of these cards on the table. If you don't look on another table and steal one that's not being used, because these are going to help get our attention. We are going to go through a set of slides showing quotes from different organizations and individuals who are using certain rhetorical devices to make their arguments. And so if you go through all of them, at least one of these 4 will apply. Again, dismiss, distort, distract, dismay. Everyone say it with me. Dismiss, distort, distract, dismay. Excellent. You're welcome to scream. I call bullshit too if you're comfortable, but it's not a requirement. So with that, let's play. Speaker 1: Keep them in the air if you think you know the answer Speaker 2: if you got to keep it in there air. Keep it in the air so we can yes. Yep. And stand up and speak loudly and or actually even better wait for the mic to come. Yeah. Thank you. Speaker 0: Well, it's obviously, it can be any number of the Ds. You can say it's distorting what they're saying or distracting them from whatever the issue is saying. The issue isn't real. They're just after me because as their witches and it's evil, I'm the injured party here. So it could be a whole lot of lot of them. Trump's got a nice range when it comes to disinformation. Speaker 2: Does anyone have a number one pick that they would like to mention related to this one? This they said dismissed do but yes, wait dismissed. Yeah the voices How many of you think dismissed? Raise your card, please. I think we're on to something here. Yeah. Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. So you're right that that underneath that attempt, there are he's twisting the story. He's he's he's accusing somebody else of the same thing. Right? But the main thing is what's what what he's saying is, like, don't listen to them because it's a witch hunt. So that was our first one. Alright. Number 2, getting topical here. Remember cards up when you Speaker 2: have an idea? Back here and please wait for the mic. Speaker 0: Distort Speaker 2: any other takers any suggestions well Let's ask how many of you think this one is distort involved Okay, that's a lot any other rhetorical devices anyone wants to mention. We've got a big hand over here. Let's oh, were you just you just kept your hand up. Her hand goes back down. Are there any others? Are we just gonna stick with that one. Yes, ma'am right here distract ah Okay, so for those who couldn't hear It's also distract because it's trying to focus attention on the NHS rather than the vote itself. One more example over here perhaps and the microphone is right behind you so hang on. Speaker 3: Yeah. We've been having a side conversation over here by ingroupoutgroupdynamics and, a group I've been part of, we added a 5th D, which was divide. Speaker 1: Divide. So you Speaker 3: get seeing it so often. Speaker 2: Yes, very good, very, very good. Nice.

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17/ The EIP defined "delegitimization" as speech that “casts doubt” on the election process or outcome. This accounted for 72% of the censorship tickets and targeted over 99% of the posts throttled by narrative, focusing on voting machines and vote-by-mail. @MikeBenzCyber @FFO_Freedom

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The speaker discusses censorship surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and ties it to his involvement with Burisma and the Atlantic Council. The Department of Homeland Security used the Atlantic Council to censor millions of tweets related to the 2020 election. This censorship was on a large scale, banning entire narratives. The speaker provides detailed information on this censorship on the Foundation For Freedom Online website. The conversation shifts to a New York Times report on Ukraine.
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Speaker 0: Talk about you left us hanging with the hey. The the thing with Elvis Chan, this at the FBI is just the tip. But I wanna go back because you've been very about Burisma and all the CIA, all that. And I because I wanna tie it to I'm a get in next to Ukraine and, and, and and the arms request for Ukraine. Tell me tell me about you're saying these things were just at the even in the Hunter Biden, we're just on the surface. We're not down into the thing itself. What do you mean by that? Speaker 1: That's correct. And again, my focus here is on digital freedom and restoring the golden age of the Internet. But these foreign policy issues and dynamics are central to understanding that story. So you had this situation with the Hunter Biden laptop being censored in the run up to the 2020 election. But there's a that's child's play compared to the actual scandal of censorship involving the Hunter Biden laptop network. So you have, Hunter Biden's relationship with Burisma, where he was receiving 100 of 1,000 of dollars from this Ukrainian gas company private gas company, essentially. Now Burisma signed a cooperation agreement in January 2017 with the Atlantic Council for the Atlantic Council to to secure deal flow for Burisma. Now Burisma was also sponsoring Atlantic Council events in Monaco and helping, helping facilitate those Burisma deals. Now the Department of Homeland Security then tapped the Atlantic Council in order to censor 22,000,000 tweets about mail in ballots, about early voting drop boxes, and about and about vote tabulation for the in the 5 months before the 2020 election. This would be the equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security deputizing the Trump Organization to censor Russiagate. It was done at scale. They banned entire narratives. If you go to Foundation For Freedom Online, you'll see a list of what those banned narratives were as well as a detailed compilation of the quantitative degree of censorship because these people bragged about it in order to secure more donor funding in a 292 page tell all report, which I break down in granular detail on on foundation Freedom Online. Speaker 0: Michael Mike Michael Benz brings the receipt. Michael, just hang on one second. I wanna keep you for a couple of minutes on the other side. We've got I've got some, New York Times big report today on the Ukraine, about what was turned down and what we're demanding

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18/ In effect, the left was allowed to discuss the vulnerabilities of voting machines after the 2016 election, and the right was banned from social media platforms for discussing those very same vulnerabilities after the 2020 election.

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Virginia stopped using touchscreen voting machines due to vulnerabilities. Voting machines across the US are at risk of being hacked. In Georgia and Texas, votes were deleted or switched in 2018. The biggest voting machine seller violated cybersecurity practices. Many states have outdated, vulnerable machines. Hackers can easily breach voting machines, potentially altering election results. The lack of paper trails in some states raises concerns about election legitimacy. Aging systems rely on unsupported software, making them susceptible to cyber attacks. The vulnerability of voting machines poses a threat to the integrity of elections. Stalin emphasized the importance of who counts votes. It is crucial to secure the future of elections and upgrade outdated systems to prevent interference.
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Speaker 0: Virginia just stopped using touchscreen computer voting because it's so vulnerable. Right. We need to look at all the voting machines. Every secretary of state needs to be, you know, assisted in making sure that they are not being, hacked and and attacked. Speaker 1: I continue to think that our voting machines are too vulnerable. Speaker 2: For researchers that repeatedly demonstrated that ballot recording machines and other voting systems are susceptible to tampering. Speaker 3: Even hackers with limited prior knowledge, tools, and resources are able to breach voting machines in a matter of minutes. Speaker 4: In 2018, electronic voting machines in Georgia and Texas deleted votes for certain candidates or switched votes from one candidate to another. Speaker 2: The biggest seller of voting machines is doing something that violates cybersecurity 101, directing that you install remote access software which would make a machine like that, you know, a magnet for fraudsters and hackers. Speaker 5: These voting machines can be hacked quite easily. Speaker 6: You could easily hack into them. It makes it seem like all these states are doing different things, but in fact, 3 companies are controlling that. It is the individual voting machines that some pose that pose some of the greatest risk. Speaker 7: There are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines. Right, which are vulnerable to being hacked. Speaker 5: Workers were able to easily hack into an electronic voting machine. It was possible Speaker 2: to switch votes. 43% of American voters use voting machines that researchers have found have serious security flaws, including backdoors. We know how vulnerable now our systems were. We know I know the hackathon that took place last year where virtually every machine was broken into fairly quickly. Speaker 7: I actually held a demonstration for my colleagues here at the capitol, where we brought in, folks who, before our eyes, hacked election machines, those that are not those that are being used in many states. Speaker 8: Aging systems also frequently rely on unsupported software, like Windows XP in 2000, which may not receive regular security patches and are thus more vulnerable to the latest methods of cyber attack. Speaker 5: In a close presidential election, they just need to hack one swing state or maybe 1 or 2 Or maybe just a few counties in one swing state. Speaker 9: I'm very concerned that you could have a hack that finally went through. You have 21 states that were hacked into. They didn't find out about it for a year. Right now, we have over a dozen dozen states that either don't have any backup paper ballots or only have them partially. You think that our adversaries don't know what those states are? Of course, they know what those states are. And if we have a close election in the general election, in a presidential race, and one state's out withstanding and their ballot boxes gets hacked into, their elections get hacked into, we will have absolutely no backup. Speaker 10: Stalin was unconcerned about the vote. After all, he explained, he said that who voted was completely unimportant. What was extraordinarily important, in his words, was who would count the votes and how. It is time to put politics aside and come together to secure the future of our election. So whether you're a 4 star general, a 4th grade teacher or a computer engineer at Foursquare, this is an issue that unites us. Speaker 8: In at least 40 states, elections are carried out using machines that are at least a decade old. And like any technology, they're susceptible to increasing failure with age. Some state officials have had to turn to eBay to find critical components like dot matrix printers, decades old storage devices, and analog modems. Aging systems also frequently rely on unsupported software like Windows XP in 2000, which may not receive regular security patches and are thus more vulnerable to the latest methods of cyber attack. Speaker 4: In 2016, state election websites in Illinois and Arizona were hacked by intruders who installed malware and downloaded sensitive voter information. Speaker 7: It is worth fighting for integrity in our election system, which means that they are free from interference by a hostile or an unfriendly nation. Let's put the resources into upgrading the state's election systems. Because what we know is this, there are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines. Right? Which are vulnerable to being hacked. I sit on the senate intelligence committee and senate homeland security committee. And we receive all kinds of information about the vulnerabilities to our national security. We are vulnerable in terms of foreign interference with our elections. It's my understanding that some of the election system vendors have required states to sign agreements, that prevent or inhibit independent, security testing. There's a saying that I'm sure many of you have heard, which is the you know the difference between being hacked and not being hacked? Is knowing you've been hacked. Speaker 0: And they are still looking for ways to steal information about voter registration, for example. There are some text experts in Silicon Valley Valley with whom I have met who say that, you know, maybe what they'll do this next time is to really disrupt the actual election. Shut down the servers that you send results to, interfere with the operation of voting machines because still too many of them are linked to the Internet. So there we are still very vulnerable. Speaker 11: I mean, I can tell you in Virginia, when I was governor, I had to replace all the machines. Because I remember when I first voted, when I went to Richmond, moved down as governor, I remember I kept voting in the senate race, kept voting for the democrat, republican name kept coming up. Three times that happened. Speaker 2: What do you mean kept coming up? Speaker 11: So I you know, we had the touch screens. I was voting for Mark Warner, our senator, and Ed Gosphy's name would light up. Happened to me three times. Finally, the 4th time, Mark Damon, I quickly hit vote, and I got out of there. You know, all the cameras are looking at me like this guy doesn't know how to vote. I mean, what's going on? So then I had an investigation done and listen to this, I brought in some technology experts, they were able to hack into our machines from off-site in about 5 or 6 minutes, and within 4 minutes they were able to change a vote. IDD certified all the machines. Now in Virginia, we have paper ballots. Speaker 2: 43% of American voters use voting machines that researchers have found have serious security flaws, including backdoors. These companies are accountable to no one. They won't answer basic questions about their cybersecurity practices and the biggest companies won't answer any questions at all. 5 states have no paper trail and that means there is no way to prove the numbers the voting machines put out are legitimate. So much for cybersecurity 101. The vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use election management systems that run on old software that is soon gonna be out of date and ripe for exploitation by hackers according to an exhaustive analysis by the Associated Press. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Arizona, and North Carolina, among others, are all at risk. Even the state of Georgia, which just passed legislation to buy new voting machines, is on track to buy equipment that suffers from the significant cybersecurity weakness. Let's say the election is decided by a small percentage And people in America don't think that the election was fair. The effect that would have on our 200 year experiment in self governance, our democratic system would take a real hit. Our elections weren't secure last week, and they sure as heck aren't secure this week. And anybody who says otherwise is either selling a voting machines or simply has a malicious intent towards our elections. At one point in the Intelligence Committee, both sides seemed to agree that no votes were changed in the 2016 election. And I said, the experts I talk to say that until you have a forensic analysis of a vote, until you go in there and scrub the whole system, You can't really say that. So they're giving these voting machines specifically the hack into how successful were they? Speaker 1: Well, the the ongoing record was, they hacked within 90 minutes of, being, being in the same space as the voting machines. Now these are not hackers that are actually touching the machines. They're doing this from across the room, on, on Internet like connections. But what it demonstrated, Pedro, is that the machines that we count on to make the basic connection between the American voter and the election results are vulnerable if they're in any way connected to the Internet. Speaker 2: And so when you say hacked, what were they able to do once they gained access to the machines? Speaker 1: Oh, all sorts of things. They could manipulate the outcome of the vote. They could manipulate the tally. They could delete the tally, and and they could compromise the vote in any number of ways. Just it was limited only by the hackers' creativity. Just how vulnerable Speaker 12: the machines were. I mean, what we found is that these machines were purchased by local voting authorities, state and local voting authorities, maybe 10 years ago. In many cases, the software and the hardware have not been updated, so they're as vulnerable as an old laptop that we might have in your home that you no longer use because it's just so out of date. Then what we found is that the supply chain for these machines is largely un plotted. I mean, we found parts from China. We found, digital electronic parts from all over the world. By way of hacking, there's the potential that the actual vote tally could be compromised. So votes could be changed from this to that. Or votes could be suppressed. The votes could be deleted. The votes could be added. So you could actually change the tally itself.

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19/ The EIP collaborated with its Big Tech partners to systematically censor any delegitimization of vote-by-mail as disinformation. In effect, they sided with Joe Biden against Donald Trump and pre-banned criticism of vote-by-mail at the narrative level seven months before the 2020 election.

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20/ The political establishment and the left used the COVID-19 crisis to push for nationwide mail-in voting, which increased the number of ballots cast by mail from 28.8 million in 2016 to 66.4 million in 2020, a massive 131% increase. The percentage of Democrats voting by mail rose from 26% in 2016 to 60% in 2020, while Republican voters only saw a rise from 21% to 32%. In short, the extra 37 million ballots cast by mail during the 2020 election swung the election to the EIP's preferred candidate. In Europe, 74% of nations ban mail-in ballots for citizens living inside their country. Brazil, Russia, Israel, Mexico, and a host of additional developed nations have also banned mail-in voting due to security concerns. In 2012, the NYT wrote, "All the evidence of stolen elections involves absentee ballots." In 2016, Slate wrote, "The only voting fraud schemes with the potential to actually swing elections involved mail-in ballots." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3666259 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/09/voter-fraud-exists-through-absentee-ballots-but-republicans-wont-stop-it.html

Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots?: They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems Thirty-seven states have so far changed their mail-in voting procedures this year in response to the Coronavirus. Despite frequent claims that President Trump’s papers.ssrn.com
Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises (Published 2012) Nationwide, mailed ballots now account for nearly 20 percent of votes, yet such ballots are more likely to be compromised, and contested, than those cast in person, statistics show. nytimes.com
Why Republicans Aren’t Actually Interested in Stopping Voter Fraud The Washington Post and News21 published a thorough analysis on Thursday of alleged voter fraud cases over the past four years in Arizona, Ohio,... slate.com

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21/ Regardless of your opinion on voting machines or mail-in voting, it’s clear that this public-private censorship network conspired with big tech & big government to censor one side of the discussion. In Feb. 2021, the EIP expanded its focus to censor COVID-19 disinformation. The DHS-backed censorship network launched the Virality Project, a collaboration between the EIP and the National Conference on Citizenship’s Algorithmic Transparency Institute, New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, and Tandon School of Engineering. The censorship consortium monitored “keyword-based queries and cluster-based community lists of key public figures and influencers” on all of the Big Tech platforms and mass-censored entire narratives that questioned the safety, efficacy, and necessity of the mRNA vaccines. The DHS-censorship network claims that there are no warning signs in regard to the safety of these mRNA vaccines in VAERS, the UK’s Yellow Card reporting site, EudraVigilance (used in the European Economic Area), and the World Health Organization’s VigiAccess.

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22/ When I first posted this thread in December 2022, the head of the EIP, @alexstamos, asked @elonmusk for “transparency” regarding the Tesla CEO tweeting, “The rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left.” Musk responded to the CISA censorship czar, “You operate a propaganda platform.” Please consider following and supporting @MikeBenzCyber and the @FFO_Freedom.

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23/ Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform' https://www.kanekoa.news/p/elon-musk-slams-cisa-censorship-network

Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform' This DHS-backed censorship network used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19. kanekoa.news

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Please consider following and supporting @MikeBenzCyber. Here's the full interview with @TuckerCarlson and the @FFO_Freedom report: DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On ‘Red Mirage, Blue Shift’ Election Events https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/dhs-censorship-agency-had-strange-first-mission-banning-speech-that-casts-doubt-on-red-mirage-blue-shift-election-events/

DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On ‘Red Mirage, Blue Shift’ Election Events The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) quiet coup to establish, for the first time in US history, an explicitly inward-facing domestic censorship bureau. foundationforfreedomonline.com

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Ep. 75 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy." https://t.co/hDTEjAf89T

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The speaker discusses the issue of censorship in the United States and how it is eroding freedom of speech. They explain that censorship is now being justified under the guise of fighting disinformation and misinformation, and that even factual and truthful statements can be labeled as disinformation and censored. The speaker highlights the role of the government in directing these censorship efforts, particularly in relation to the military industrial complex and the defense industry. They also discuss the censorship of the 2020 election and the manipulation of public opinion through coordinated efforts between government agencies and mainstream media. The speaker warns that platforms like X, which currently offer more freedom of speech, are under pressure and may face increased censorship in the future.
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Speaker 0: The defining fact of the United States is freedom of speech. To the extent this country is actually exceptional, it's because we have the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights. We have freedom of conscience. We can say what we really think. There's no hate speech exception to that. Just because you hate what somebody else thinks, you cannot force that person to be quiet because we're citizens not slaves. But that right, that foundational right that makes this country what it is, that right from which all other rights flow is going away at high speed in the face of censorship. Now modern censorship bears no resemblance to previous censorship regimes in previous countries in previous eras. Our censorship is affected on the basis of fights against disinformation and malinformation. And the key thing to know about these is they're everywhere, and, of course, they have no reference at all to whether what you're saying is true or not. In other words, you can say something that is factually accurate and consistent with your own conscience. And in previous versions of America, you had an absolute right to say those things. But because someone doesn't like them or because they're inconvenient to whatever plan the people in power have, they can be denounced as disinformation and you could be stripped of your right to express them either in person or online. In fact, expressing these things can become a criminal act and is. And it's important to know, by the way, that this is not just the private sector doing this. These efforts are being directed by the US government, which you pay for and least theoretically own. It's your government. But they're stripping your rights at very high speed. Most people understand this intuitively, but they don't know how it happens. How does censorship happen? What are the mechanics of it? Mike Benz is, we can say, with some confidence, the expert in the world on how this happens. Mike Benz had the cyber portfolio at the state department. He's now executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online, and we're gonna have a conversation with him about a very specific kind of censorship. By the way, we can't recommend strongly enough. If you wanna know how this happens, Mike Benz, b e n z, is the man to read. But today, we just wanna talk about a specific kind of censorship, and that's censorship that emanates from the fabled military industrial complex, from our defense industry in the foreign policy establishment in Washington. That's significant now because we're on the cusp of a global war, and so you can expect censorship to increase dramatically. And so with that, here is Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online. Mike, thanks so much for joining us. And I and I just can't overstate to our audience how exhaustive and comprehensive your knowledge is on this topic. It's almost it's almost unbelievable. And so if you could just walk us through how the foreign policy establishment and defense contractors and and DOD and and just the whole cluster, the constellation of defense related publicly funded institutions strip from us our freedom of speech. Speaker 1: Sure. You know, one of the easiest ways to actually start the story is really with the story of Internet freedom. And it switched from internet freedom to internet censorship because free speech on the internet was an instrument of statecraft almost from the outset of the privatization of the Internet in 1991. We quickly discovered through the efforts of the Defense Department, the State Department and our intelligence services that people were using the Internet to congregate on blogs and forums and free speech was championed more than anybody by the Pentagon, the State Department and our sort of CIA cutout NGO blob architecture as a way to support dissident groups around the world in order to help them overthrow authoritarian governments as they were sort of build. Essentially, the Internet free speech allowed kind of insta regime change operations to be able to facilitate the foreign policy establishment's State Department agenda. Google is a great example of this. Google began as a DARPA grant by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were Stanford PhDs, and they got their funding as part of a joint CIA NSA program to chart how quote birds of a feather flock together online through search engine aggregation. And then 1 year later, they launched Google and then became a military contractor quickly thereafter. They got Google Maps by purchasing a CIA satellite software essentially. And the ability to track to use free speech on the Internet as a way to circumvent state control over media over in places like Central Asia or all around the world was seen as a way to be able to do what used to be done out of CIA station houses or out of embassies or consulates in a way that was totally turbocharged. And all of the Internet free speech technology was initially created by our national security state, VPNs, virtual private networks to hide your IP address, tour the dark web to be able to buy and sell goods anonymously, end to end encrypted chats. All these things were created initially as DARPA projects or as joint CIA NSA projects to be able to help intelligence backed groups to overthrow governments that were causing a problem to the Clinton administration or the Bush administration or the Obama administration. And this plan worked magically from about 1991 until about 2014 when there began to be an about face on Internet freedom and its utility. Now the high watermark of the sort of Internet free speech moment was the Arab Spring in 2011, 2012 when you had this 1 by 1, all of the adversary governments of the Obama administration, Egypt, Tunisia, all began to be toppled in Facebook Revolutions and Twitter Revolutions. And you had the State Department working very closely with the social media companies to be able to keep social media online during those periods. There was a famous phone call from Google's Jared Cohen to Twitter to not do their scheduled maintenance so that the preferred opposition group in Iran would be able to use Twitter to win that election. So it was an free speech was an instrument of statecraft from the national security state to begin with. All of that architecture, all the NGOs, the relationships between the tech companies and the national security state have been long established for freedom. In 2014, after the coup in Ukraine, there was an unexpected counter coup where Crimea and the Donbas broke away. And they broke away with essentially a military backstop that NATO was highly unprepared for at the time. They had one last Hail Mary chance, which was the Crimea annexation vote in 2014. And when the hearts and minds of the people of Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation, that was the last straw for the concept of free speech on the Internet in the eyes of NATO. As they saw it, the fundamental nature of war changed at that moment. And NATO at that point declared something that they first called the Gerasimov doctrine, which is named after this Russian military general, who they claimed made a speech that the fundamental nature of war has changed. You don't need to win military skirmishes to take over Central and Eastern Europe. All you need to do is control the media and the social media ecosystem because that's what controls elections. And if you simply get the right administration into power, they control the military. So it's infinitely cheaper than conducting a military war to simply conduct an organized political influence operation over social media and legacy media. An industry had been created that spanned the Pentagon, the British Ministry of Defense and Brussels into an organized political warfare outfit, essentially infrastructure that was created initially stationed in Germany and in Central and Eastern Europe to create psychological buffer zones, basically to create the ability to have the military work with the social media companies to censor Russian propaganda or to censor domestic right wing populist groups in Europe who were rising in political power at the time because of the migrant crisis. So you had the systematic targeting by our State Department, by our IC, by the Pentagon of groups like Germany's AFD, the alternative for Deutschland there and for groups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Now when Brexit happened in 2016, it was that was this crisis moment where suddenly they didn't have to worry just about Central and Eastern Europe anymore, it was coming westward, this idea of Russian control over hearts and minds. And so that was Brexit was June 2016, the very next month at the Warsaw Conference, NATO formally amended its charter to expressly commit to hybrid warfare as this new NATO capacity. So they went from basically 70 years of tanks to this explicit capacity building for censoring tweets that they were deemed to be Russian proxies. And again, it's not just Russian propaganda. These were now Brexit groups or groups like Matteo Salvini in Italy or in Greece or in Germany or in Spain with the Vox Party. And now at the time, NATO was publishing white papers saying that the biggest threat NATO faces is not actually a military invasion from Russia, it's losing domestic elections across Europe to all these right wing populist groups who because they were mostly working class movements were campaigning on cheap Russian energy at a time when the US was pressuring this energy diversification policy. And so they made the argument after Brexit, now the entire rules based international order would collapse unless the military took control over media because Brexit would give rise to Brexit in France with Marine Le Pen, to SPEGS it in Spain with the Vox Party, to it'll exit in Italy, to Grexit in Germany, to Grexit in Greece, the EU would come apart so NATO would be killed without a single bullet being fired. And then not only that, now that NATO is gone, now there's no enforcement arm for the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, or the World Bank. So now the financial stakeholders who depend on the battering ram of the National Security State would basically be helpless against governments around the world. So, from their perspective, if the military did not begin to censor the internet, every all of the democratic institutions and infrastructure that gave rise to the modern world after World War II would collapse. So you can imagine the reality of what Speaker 0: it was later, Speaker 1: Donald Trump won the 2016 election. Speaker 0: So you well, you just told a remarkable story that I've never heard anybody explain as lucidly and crisply as you just did. But did anyone at NATO or anyone at the state department pause, Rome, and say, wait a second. We've just identified our new enemy as democracy within our own countries. I think that's what you're saying. They they feared that the people, the citizens of their own countries, would get their way, and they went to war against that. Speaker 1: Yes. Now, you know, there's a rich history of this dating back to the Cold War. You know, the Cold War in Europe was essentially a similar struggle for hearts and minds of people, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, in these sort of Soviet buffer zones. And starting in 1948, the National Security State was really established then. You had the 1947 Act, which established the Central Intelligence Agency, you had this new world order that had been created with all these international institutions and you had the 1948 UN Declaration on Human Rights, which forbid the territorial acquisition by military force. So, you can no longer run a traditional military occupation government in the way that we could in 18/98, for example, when we took the Philippines. Everything had to be done through a sort of political legitimization process whereby there's some ratification from the hearts and minds of people within the country. Now often that involves simply puppet politicians who are groomed as emerging leaders by our State Department. But the battle for hearts and minds had been something that we had been giving ourselves a long moral license leash, if you will, since 1948. One of the godfathers of the CIA, George Kennan, at 12 days after we rigged the Italian election in 1948 by stuffing ballot boxes and working with the mob, we published a memo called the inauguration of organized political warfare, where he said, listen, it's a mean old world out there. We at the CIA just rigged the Italian election. We had to do it because if the communist won, maybe there'd never be another election in Italy again. So, but it's really effective, guys. We need a department of dirty tricks to be able to do this around the world and it's essentially a new social contract we're constructing with the American people because this is not the way we've conducted diplomacy before, but we are now forbidden from using the War Department. In 1948, they also renamed the War Department to the Defense Department. So again, as part of this diplomatic onslaught for political control rather than it looking like it's overt military control, but essentially what ended up happening there is we created this foreign domestic firewall. We said that we have a department of dirty tricks to be able to rig elections, to be able to control media, to be able to meddle in the internal affairs of every other plot of dirt in the country. But this sort of sacred dirt on which the American homeland sits will they are not allowed to operate there. The State Department, the Defense Department and the CIA are all expressly forbidden from operating on U. S. Soil. Of course, this is so far from the case, it's not even funny, but that's because of a number of laundering tricks that they've developed over 70 years of doing this. But essentially, there was no moral quandary at first with respect to the creation of the censorship industry when it started out in Germany and in Lithuania and Latvia and Estonia and in Sweden and Finland, there began to be a more diplomatic debate about it after Brexit. And then, it became full throttle when Trump was elected. And what little resistance there was, was washed over by the rise and saturation of Russiagate, which basically allowed them to not have to deal with the moral ambiguities of censoring your own people. Because if Trump was a Russian asset, you no longer really had a traditional free speech issue, it was a national security issue. It was only after Russiagate died in July 2019 when Robert Mueller basically choked on the stand for 3 hours and revealed he had absolutely nothing after 2.5 years of investigation that the foreign to domestic switcheroo took place where they took all of this censorship architecture spanning DHS, the FBI, the CIA, the DoD, the DOJ and then the thousands of government funded NGO and private sector mercenary firms were all basically transited from a foreign predicate, a Russian disinformation predicate, to a democracy predicate by saying that disinformation is not just a threat when it comes from the Russians, it's actually an intrinsic threat to democracy itself. And so by that, they were able to monitor the entire democracy promotion regime change toolkit, just in time for the 2020 election. Speaker 0: I mean, it's it's almost beyond belief that this has happened. I mean, my own father worked for the US government in this business in the information war against the Soviet Union and, you know, was a big part of that. And the idea that any of those tools would be turned against American citizens by the US government was, I I think, I wanna think, was absolutely unthinkable in, say, 1988. And you're saying that it's there really hasn't been anyone who's raised objections, and it's just it's absolutely turned inward to manipulate and rig our own elections as we would in, say, Latvia? Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, as soon as the democracy predicate was established, you had this professional class of professional regime change artists and operatives. That is, the same people who argued that we need to bring democracy to Yugoslavia to get and that's the predicate for getting rid of you know, Milosevic or any any other country around the world where we basically overthrow governments in order to preserve democracy. Well, if the democracy threat is homegrown now, then that becomes then suddenly, these people all have new jobs moving on the U. S. Side. And I can go through a million examples of that. But one thing on what you just mentioned, which is that from their perspective, they just weren't ready for the internet. 2016 was really the first time that social media had reached such maturity that it began to eclipse legacy media. I mean, this was a long time coming. I think folks saw this building from 2,006 through 2016. Internet 1.0 didn't even have social media. From 1991 to 2004, there was no social media at all. 2004, Facebook came out, 2005, Twitter, 2006, YouTube, 2007, the smartphone. And so and in that initial period of social media, nobody was getting subscriberships at the level where they actually competed with legacy news media. But over the course of being so initially, even these dissonant voices within the U. S, even though they may have been loud in moments, they never reached 30,000,000 followers. They never reached 1,000,000,000 impressions a year type thing as an uncensored mature ecosystem allowed citizen journalists and independent voices to be able to outcompete legacy news media, this induced a massive crisis both in our military and in our State Department and Intelligence Services. I'll give you a great example of this. In 2019, at meeting of the German Marshall Fund, which is an institution that goes back to the U. S, basically, I don't want to say bry, but essentially the soft economic soft power projection in Europe as part of the reconstruction of European governments after World War II to be able to essentially pay them with Marshall Fund dollars and then in return, they were under our thumb in terms of how they reconstructed. But the German Marshall Fund held a meeting in 2019. They held 1,000,000 of these, frankly. But where a 4 star general got up on the panel and said that the what happens he posed the question, what happens to the U. S. Military? What happens to the national security state when The New York Times is reduced to a medium sized Facebook page? And he posed this thought experiment as an example of we've had these gatekeepers, we've had these bumper cars on democracy in the form of a century old relationship with legacy media institutions. I mean, our mainstream media is not in any shape or form even from its outset, independent from the National Security State, from the State Department, from the War Department. You had the initial all of the initial broadcast news companies, NBC, ABC and CBS, were all created by Office of War Information Veterans from the War Department's effort in World War II. You had these Operation Mockingbird relationships from the 1950s to 1970s. Those continued through the use of the National Endowment for Democracy and the privatization of intelligence capacities in the 1980s under Reagan. There's all sorts of CIA reading room memos. You can read even on cia.gov about those continued media relations throughout the 1990s. And so you always had this backdoor relationship between The Washington Post, The New York Times and all of the major broadcast media corporations. By the way, Rupert Murdoch and Fox are part of this as well. Rupert Murdoch was actually part of the National Endowment For Democracy Coalition in 1983 when it was formed as a way to do CIA operations in an above board way after the Democrats were so ticked off at the CIA for manipulating student movements in the 1970s. But essentially, there was no CIA intermediary to random citizen journalist accounts. There was no Pentagon backstop. You couldn't get a story killed. You couldn't have this favors for favors relationship. You couldn't promise access to some random person with 700,000 followers who's got an opinion on Syrian Gas. And so this induced and this was not a problem for the initial period of social media from 2,006 to 2014 because there were never dissident groups that were big enough to be able to have a mature ecosystem on their own. And all of the victories on social media had gone in the way of where the money was, which was from the State Department and the Defense Department and the Intelligence Services. But then as that maturity happened, you now had this situation after the 2016 election where they said, okay. Now the entire international order might come undone. 70 years of unified foreign policy from Truman until Trump are now about to be broken. And we need the same analog control systems we had to be able to put bumper cars on bad stories or bad political movements through legacy media relationships and contacts. We now need to establish and consolidate within the social media companies. And the initial predicate for that was Russiagate, but then after Russiagate died and they used a simple democracy promotion predicate, then it gave rise to this multibillion dollar censorship industry that joins together the military industrial complex, the government, the private sector, the civil society organizations and then this vast cobweb of media allies and professional fact checker groups that serve as this sort of sentinel class that surveys everywhere on the Internet. Speaker 0: So can you give us and thank you again for this almost unbelievable explanation of why this is happening. Can you give us an example of how it happens? How just and just pick one among, I know, countless examples of how the national security state lies to the population, censors the truth, in real life. Speaker 1: Yes. So we have this State Department outfit called the Global Engagement Center, which was created by a guy named Rick Stengel, who described himself as Obama's propagandist in chief. He was the Undersecretary for Public Affairs, which is essentially the liaison office role between the State Department and the mainstream media. So this is basically the exact nexus where government talking points about war or about diplomacy or statecraft get synchronized with mainstream media. Speaker 0: And may may may may I add something to that? As someone I I know Rick Stengel. He was at one point a journalist, and Rick Stengel has made public arguments against the First Amendment and against free speech. Speaker 1: And some of the candidates have done a job. And he's published an op ed in 2019. He wrote a whole book on it. And he made the argument that we just went over here, that essentially, the Constitution was not prepared for the Internet, and we need to get rid of the First Amendment accordingly. And he described himself as a free speech absolutist when he was the managing editor of Time Magazine. And even when he was in the State Department under Obama, he started something called the Global Engagement Center, which was the first government censorship operation within the federal government, but it was foreign facing, so it was okay. Now at the time, they used the homegrown ISIS predicate threat for this. And so it was very hard to argue against the idea of the State Department having this formal coordination partnership with every major tech platform in the U. S. Because at the time, there were these ISIS attacks that were and we were told that ISIS was recruiting on Twitter and Facebook. And so the Global Engagement Center was established essentially to be a State Department entanglement with the social media companies to basically put bumper cars on their ability to platform accounts. And one of the things they did is they created a new technology, which is it's called natural language processing. It is an artificial intelligence machine learning ability to create meaning out of words in order to map everything that everyone says on the Internet and create this vast topography of how communities are organized online, who the major influences are, what they're talking about, what narratives are emerging or trending, and to be able to create this sort of network graph in order to know who to target and how information moves through an ecosystem. And so they began plotting the language, the prefixes, the suffixes, the popular terms, the slogans that ISIS folks were talking about on Twitter. When Trump won the election in 2016, everyone who worked at the State Department was expecting these promotions to the White House National Security Council under Hillary Clinton, who I should remind viewers, was also Secretary of State under Obama, actually ran the State Department. But these folks were all expecting promotions on November 8, 2016, and were unceremoniously, put out of jobs by a guy who was a 20 to 1 underdog according to the New York Times the day of the election. And when when that happened, these state department folks took their special set of skills, coercing governments to for sanctions. And the State Department led the effort to sanction Russia over the Crimea annexation in 2014. These State Department diplomats did an international roadshow to pressure European governments to pass censorship laws to censor the right wing populist groups in Europe and as a boomerang impact to censor populist groups who were affiliated in the U. S. So you had folks who went from the State Department directly, for example, to the Atlantic Council, which was this major facilitator between government to government censorship. The Atlantic Council is a group that was one of Biden's biggest political backers. They build themselves as NATO's think tank. So they represent the political census of NATO. And in many respects, when NATO has civil society actions that they want to be coordinated to synchronize with military action in a region, the Atlantic Council essentially is deployed to 7 CIA directors are still alive, let alone all concentrated on on the board of a single organization that's kind of the heavyweight in the censorship industry. They get annual funding from the Department of Defense, the State Department and CIA cutouts like the National Endowment For Democracy. The Atlantic Council in January 2017 moved immediately to pressure European governments to pass censorship laws to create a transatlantic flank attack on free speech in exactly the way that Rick Stengel essentially called for to have the US mimic European censorship laws. One of the ways they did this was by getting Germany to pass something called NET DG in August 2017, which was essentially kicked off the era of automated censorship in the U. S. What NextGG required was unless social media platforms want to pay $54,000,000 fine for each instance of speech, each post left up on their platform for more than 48 hours that have been identified as hate speech, they would be fined basically into bankruptcy when you aggregate $54,000,000 over tens of thousands of posts per day. And the safe haven around that was if they deployed artificial intelligence based censorship technologies, which had been again created by DARPA to take on ISIS to be able to scan and ban speech automatically. And this gave I call these weapons of mass deletion. These are essentially the ability to censor tens of millions of posts with just a few lines of code and the way this is done is by aggregating basically the field of censorship science fuses together 2 disparate groups of study, if you will. There's the sort of political and social scientists who are the sort of thought leaders of what should be censored and then there are the sort of quants, if you will. These are the programmers, the computational data scientists, computational linguistics, every university, there's over 60 universities now who get federal government grants to do this censorship work and the censorship preparation work, where what they do is they create these codebooks of the language that people use, the same way they did for ICE. They did this, for example, with COVID. They created these COVID lexicons of what dissident groups were saying about mandates, about masks, about vaccines, about high profile individuals like Tony Fauci or Peter Daszak or any of these others protected VIP individuals whose reputations had to be protected online. And they created these codebooks, they broke things down into narratives. The Atlantic Council, for example, was a part of this government funded consortium, something called the Virality Project, which which mapped 66 different narratives that dissidents were talking about around COVID, everything from COVID origins to vaccine efficacy. And then they broke down these 66 claims into all the different factual sub claims. And then they plugged these into these essentially machine learning models to be able to have a constant world heat map of what everybody was saying about COVID. And whenever something started to trend that was bad for what the Pentagon wanted or was bad for what Tony Fauci wanted, they were able to take down tens of millions of posts. They did this Speaker 0: So you're saying the Pentagon, our Pentagon, the US Department of Defense, censored Americans during the 2020 election cycle? Speaker 1: Yes. They did this they oh, they did this through the so so there's the 2 most censored events in human history, I would argue to date, are the 2020 election and the COVID-nineteen pandemic. And I'll explain how I arrived there. So the 2020 election was determined by mail in ballots. And I'm not weighing into the substance of whether mail in ballots were or were not a legitimate or safe and reliable form of voting. That's a completely independent topic from my perspective than the censorship issue 1. But the censorship of mail in ballots is really one of the most extraordinary stories in our American history, I would argue. What happened was is you had this plot within the Department of Homeland Security. Now this gets back to what we were talking about with the State Department's Global Engagement Center. You had this group within the Atlanta Council and the foreign policy establishment, which began arguing in 2017 for the need for a permanent domestic censorship government office to serve as a quarterback for what they called a Whole of Society Counter Misinformation, Counter Disinformation Alliance. That just means censorship, the counter misinfo. But the whole of their whole society model explicitly proposed that we need every single asset within society to be mobilized in a whole of society effort to stop misinformation online. It was that much of an existential threat to democracy. And so it but they fixated in 2017 that it had to be centered within the government because only the government would have the clout and the coercive threat powers and the perceived authority to be able to tell the social media companies what to do, to be able to summon a government funded NGO form to create that media surround sound, to be able to arm an astroturf army of fact checkers and to be able to liaise and connect all these different censorship industry actors into a cohesive unified whole. And the Atlantic Council initially proposed with this blueprint called forward defense. It's not offense, it's forward defense, guys. They initially proposed running this out of the State Department's Global Engagement Center because they had so many assets there who were so effective at censorship under Rick Stengel's stead and under the Obama administration. But they said, oh, we're not going to be able to get away with that because we don't really have a national security predicate and it's supposed to be foreign facing. We can't really use that hook unless we have a sort of national security one. Then they contemplated parking it to CIA. And they said, well, actually, there's two reasons we can't do that. CIA is foreign facing. We can't really establish a counterintelligence threat to bring it home domestically. Also, we're going to need essentially tens of thousands of people involved in this operation spanning this whole society model. You can't really run a clandestine operation that way. So they said, okay, well, what about the FBI? They said, well, the FBI would be great. It's domestic. But the problem is is the FBI is supposed to be the intelligence arm of the justice department and we and what we're dealing with here are not acts of law breaking. It's basically support for Trump or if, you know, if if left wing populists had risen to power like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, I have no doubt they would have done in in the UK, they would have done the same thing to him there. They targeted Jeremy Corbyn and other left wing populist NATO skeptical groups in Europe. But in the U. S, it was all Trump. And so essentially what they said is, well, the only other domestic intelligence equity we have in the US besides the FBI is the DHS. So we are going to essentially take the CIA's power to rig and bribe foreign media organizations, which is a power they've had since the day they were born in 1947, and we're going to combine that with the power, with the domestic jurisdiction of the FBI by putting it at DHS. So DHS was basically deputized. It was empowered through this obscure little cybersecurity agency to have the combined powers that the CIA has abroad with the jurisdiction of the FBI at home. And the way they did this, how did an obscure little cybersecurity agency get this power, was they did a funny little series of switcheroos. So this little thing called CISA, they didn't call it the Disinformation Governance Board, they didn't call it the censorship agency, gave it an obscure little name that no one would notice called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whose founder said, security we care about security so much it's in our name twice. Everybody sort of closed their eyes and pretended that's what it was. But it was created by active Congress in 2018 because of the perceived threat that Russia had hacked the 2016 election, had physically hacked it. And so we needed the cybersecurity power to be able to deal with that. And essentially on the heels of a CIA memo on January 6, 2017 and a same day DHS executive order on January 6, 2017 arguing that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election and a DHS mandate saying that elections are now critical infrastructure, you had this new power within DHS to say that cybersecurity attacks on elections are now our purview. And then they did 2 cute things. 1, they said mis, dis and malinformation online are a form of cybersecurity attack. They are a cyber attack because they are happening online. And they said, well, actually, Russian disinformation is we're actually protecting democracy in elections. We don't need a Russian predicate after Russiagate died. So just like that, you had this cybersecurity agency be able to legally make the argument that your tweets about mail in ballots, if you undermine public faith and confidence in them as a legitimate form of voting, you are now conducting a cyber attack on US critical infrastructure by by articulating misinformation on Twitter. And just like that now what they did then is they Wait. Speaker 0: So in other words, Complaining about election fraud is the same as taking down our power grid. Speaker 1: Yes. You could literally be on your toilet seat at 9:30 on a Thursday night and tweet, I think that mail in ballots are illegitimate. And you were essentially then caught up in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security classifying you as conducting a cyber attack on US critical infrastructure because you were doing misinformation online in the cyber realm, and misinformation is a cyber attack on democracy when it undermines public faith and confidence in our democratic elections and our democratic institutions. They would end up going far beyond that. They would actually define democratic institutions as being another thing that was a cybersecurity attack to undermine. And lo and behold, the mainstream media is considered a democratic institution. That would come later. What ended up happening was in advance of the 2020 election, starting in April of 2020, although this goes back before, you had this essentially never Trump, neocon, Republican DHS working with essentially NATO on the national security side and essentially the DNC, if you will, to use DHS as the launching point for a government coordinated mass censorship campaign spanning every single social media platform on earth in order to pre censor the ability to dispute the legitimacy of mail in ballots. And here's how they did this. They aggregated 4 different institutions, Stanford University, the University of Washington, a company called Graphica and the Atlantic Council. Now all 4 of these institutions, the centers within them, were essentially Pentagon cutouts. You had at the Stanford Internet Observatory, it was actually run by Michael McFaul. If you know Michael McFaul, he was the U. S. Ambassador to Russia under the, under the, Obama administration, and he personally authored a 7 step playbook for how to successfully orchestrate a color revolution. That is and part of that involved maintaining total control over media and social media, juicing up the civil society outfits, calling elections illegitimate in order to and mind you, all of these people were professional Russi gators and professional election delegitimizers in 2016. And then, well, I'll get that in a sec. So Stanford University, nominally, the Stanford Airm Observatory under Michael McFaul was run by Alex Stamos, who was formerly a Facebook executive, who coordinated with ODNI and with respect to Russiagate, taking down Russian propaganda at Facebook. So this is another liaison essentially to the National Security State. And under Alex Stamos at Stanford Internet, Internet Observatory was Renee de Resta, who started her career in the CIA and wrote the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian disinformation. And there's a lot more there that I'll be I'll get to another time. But, the the next institution was the University of Washington, which is essentially the Bill Gates University in Seattle, who is headed by Kate Starbird, who is basically 3 generations of military brass, who got her PhD in Crisis Informatics, essentially doing social media surveillance for the Pentagon and getting DARPA funding and, and and working essentially with the National Security State then repurposed to take on mail in ballots. The 3rd firm, Graphica, got $7,000,000 in Pentagon grants and got their start as part of the Pentagon's Minerva Initiative. The Minerva Initiative is the psychological warfare research center of the Pentagon. They they this group was was doing social media spying and narrative mapping for the Pentagon until the 2016 election happened and then were repurposed into a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to censor, you know, 22,000,000 Trump tweets, pro Trump tweets about mail in ballots. And then the 4th institution as I mentioned was the Atlantic Council who's got 7 CIA directors on the board. So one after another, it is exactly what Ben Rhodes described during the Obama era as the blob. The foreign policy establishment. It's the defense department, the state department or the CIA every single time. And of course, this is because they were threatened by Trump's foreign policy. And so while much of the censorship looks like it's coming domestically, it's actually by our foreign facing Department of Dirty Tricks color revolution blob who are professional government toplers, who were then basically descended on the 2020 election. Now they did this. The they explicitly said the head of this election integrity partnership on tape, and and and my foundation clipped them, and it's been played before congress, and it's in, you know, a part of the Missouri v Biden lawsuit now. But they explicitly said on tape that they were set up to do what the government was banned from doing itself. And then they articulated a multistep framework in order to coerce all the tech companies to take censorship actions. They said on tape, the tech companies would not have done but for their pressure, which involve using threats of government force because they were the deputized arm of the government. They had a formal partnership with the DHS. They were able to use DHS's proprietary domestic disinformation switchboard to immediately talk to top brass at all the tech companies for takedowns. And they bragged on tape about how they got the tech companies to all systematically adopt a new terms of service speech violation ban called delegitimization, which meant any tweet, any YouTube video, any Facebook post, any TikTok video, any Discord post, any Twitch video, anything on the Internet that that, undermine public faith and confidence in the use of mail in ballots or early voting drop boxes or ballot tabulation issues on Election Day was a prima facia terms of service violation policy under this new delegitimization policy that they only adopted because of pass through government pressure from the Election Integrity Partnership, which they bragged about on tape, including the grid that they used to do this and and simultaneously invoking threats of government breaking them up or government stopping doing favors for the tech companies unless they did this, as well as inducing crisis PR by working with their media allies. And they said the government DHS could not do that themselves. And so they set up this this basically constellation of state department, Pentagon, and and IC networks to run this pre censorship campaign which by their own math had 22,000,000 tweets on Twitter alone and mind you, they did this on 15 platforms. This is 100 of millions of posts, which were all scanned and banned or throttled so that they cannot be amplified or they exist in a sort of limited state purgatory or had these frictions affixed to them in the form of fact checking labels where you couldn't actually click through the thing or you had to it was it was an inconvenience to be able to share it. Now they did this 7 months before the election because at the time, they were worried about the perceived legitimacy of a Biden victory in the case of a so called red mirage blue shift event. They knew the only way that Biden would be able to would win mathematically was through the disproportionate Democrat use of mail in ballots. They knew there would be a crisis because it was going to look extremely weird if if Trump looked like he won by 7 states in you know, and then 3 days later, it comes out actually the election switch. I mean, that that would put the election crisis of the Bush Gore election on a level of steroids that the national security say said, well, the the public will not be prepared for. So what we need to do is we need to in advance, we need to pre censor the ability to even question legitimacy. This took out Wait. Speaker 0: Wait. May may I ask you to pause right there? Speaker 1: Key influencers. Speaker 0: So what you're saying is what you're suggesting is they knew the outcome of the election 7 months before it was held. Speaker 1: It looks very bad. Certainly what they did Speaker 0: That's it. Yes, Mike. It does look very bad. Speaker 1: You know, and especially when you combine this with the fact that this is right on the heels of the impeachment, the Pentagon led CIA led impeachment. You know, it was, Eric Cimarello from the CIA, and it was the Vindmanns from the Pentagon who led the impeachment of Trump in late 2019 over, you know, an alleged phone call around withholding Ukraine aid. This same network, which came straight out of the Pentagon hybrid warfare network military censorship network created after the 1st Ukraine crisis in 2014 were the lead architects of the Ukraine impeachment in 2019 and then essentially came back on steroids as part of the 2020 election censorship operation. But, you know, from their perspective, I mean, it certainly looks like the perfect crime. These were the people DHS, at the time, had actually federalized much of of the National Election Administration through this January 6, 2017, executive order from outgoing Obama DHS head, Jed Johnson, which essentially wrapped all 50 states up into a formal DHS partnership. So DHS was simultaneously in charge of the administration of the election in many respects and the censorship of anyone who challenged the administration of the election. This is like, you know, putting essentially the defendant, of a trial, as the judge and jury of the trial. It was very Speaker 0: But but you're not describing democracy. I mean, you're describing a country in which democracy is impossible. Speaker 1: What I'm essentially describing is military rule. I mean, this is I mean, what what's happened with the rise of the censorship industry is a total inversion of the idea of democracy itself. Democracy sort of draws its legitimacy from the idea that it is ruled by consent of the people being ruled. That is, it's not really being ruled by an overlord because the government is actually just our will expressed by our consent with who we vote for. The whole push after the 2016 election and after Brexit and after a couple of other, you know, social media run elections that went the wrong way from what the state department wanted, like the 2016 Philippines election, was to completely invert everything that we described as being the underpinnings of a democratic society in order to deal with the threat of free speech on the Internet. And what they essentially said is, we need to redefine democracy from being about the will of the voters to being about the sanctity of democratic institutions. And who are the democratic institutions? Oh, it's us. It's the military. It's NATO. It's the IMF and the World Bank. It's the mainstream media. It is the NGOs. And of course, these NGOs are largely State Department funded or IC funded. It's essentially all of the elite establishments that were under threat from the rise of domestic populism that declared their own consensus to be the new definition of democracy. Because if you define democracy as being the strength of democratic institutions rather than a focus on the will of the voters, then what you're left with is essentially democracy is just the consensus building architecture within the within the democrat institutions themselves. And from their perspective, that takes a lot of work. I mean, I mean, the amount of work these people do I mean, for example, we mentioned the Atlantic Council, which is one of these big coordinating mechanisms for the oil and gas industry in a region, for the finance and the JP Morgans and the BlackRocks in a region, for the NGOs in the region, for the media in the region. All of these need to reach a consensus and that process takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of work and a lot of negotiation. From their perspective, that's democracy. Democracy is getting the NGOs to agree with BlackRock, to agree with the with the Wall Street Journal, you know, to to agree with, you know, the the community and activist groups who are onboarded with respect to a particular initiative. That is the difficult vote building process from their perspective. If at the end of the day, a bunch of, you know, populist groups decide that they like a truck driver who's popular on TikTok more than the, you know, carefully constructed consensus of the NATO military brass, well, then from their perspective, you know, that is now an attack on democracy. And this is what this whole branding effort was. And, of course, democracy again has that magic regime change predicate where democracy is is our magic watchword to be able to overthrow governments from the ground up in a sort of color revolution style, whole of society effort to topple a a democratically elected government from the inside, for example, as we did in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych was democratically elected by the Ukrainian people, like him or hate him. I'm not even issuing an opinion there. But the fact is, is we colored revolution him out of office. We January 6th him out of office actually to be frank. I mean, with respect to the you had your state department funded right sector thugs and you know, $5,000,000,000 worth of civil society money pumped into this to overthrow a democratically elected government in the name of democracy. And they took that special set of skills home and now it's here perhaps potentially to stay. And this has fundamentally changed the nature of American governance because of the threat of, you know, one small voice becoming popular on social media. Speaker 0: May may may I ask you a question? So into that that group of institutions that you say now define democracy, the NGOs, foreign policy establishment, etcetera, you you included the mainstream media. Now in 2021, the NSA broke into my private text apps and read them and then leaked them to the New York Times against me. That just happened again to me last week. And I'm wondering how common that is for the intel agencies to work with so called mainstream media like The New York Times to hurt their opponents? Speaker 1: Well, that is the function of these interstitial government funded non governmental organizations and think tanks like, for example, we mentioned the Atlantic Council, which is NATO's think tank, but other groups like the Aspen Institute, which draws the lion's share of its funding from the State Department and other government agencies. The Aspen Institute was busted doing the same thing with the Hunter Biden laptop censorship. You had this strange situation where the FBI had advanced knowledge of the pending publication of the Hunter Biden laptop story and then magically the Aspen Institute, which is run by essentially former CIA, former NSA, former FBI and then a bunch of sort of civil society organizations, all hold a mass stakeholder censorship simulation, a 3 day conference. This came out and Joe Roth was there. This is a big part of the Twitter file leaks and it's been mentioned in multiple congressional investigations. But somehow, the Aspen Institute, which is basically an addendum of the National Security State, got the exact same information that the National Security State spied on journalists and political figures to obtain and not only leaked it, but then basically did a joint coordinated censorship simulator in in September, 2 months before the election, in order just like with the censorship of mail in ballots to be in ready position to pre censor anyone online amplifying a news story that had not even broken yet. Speaker 0: The Aspen Institute? So, I mean, which is by the way, I've spent my life in Washington. It's kind of a, I mean, Walter Isaacson, formerly of Time Magazine, ran it, from former president of CNN. I had no idea it was part of the National Security State. I had no idea its funding came from the US government. You're this is the first time I've ever heard that. But given assuming what you're saying is true, it's a little weird that Walter Isaacson Speaker 1: you You know, I don't know. I I haven't read that book. I I from what I've heard from people, it's a relatively fair treatment. I, Just total speculation, but I suspect that Walter Isaacson has struggled with this issue and may not even firmly fall in one particular place in the sense that Walter Isonson did a series of interviews of Rick Stengel, actually with the Atlantic Council and in other settings, where he interviewed Rick Stengel specifically on the issue of the need to get rid of the First Amendment and the threat that free speech on social media poses to democracy. Now at the time, I was very concerned. This was between 2017 and 2019 when he did these Rick Stengel interviews. I was very concerned because Isaacson expressed what seemed to me to be a highly sympathetic view about the Rick Stengel perspective on killing the First Amendment. Now, he didn't formally endorse that position, but it left me very skittish about Isaacson. But what I should say is, at the time, I don't think very many people, in fact, I know virtually nobody in the country, had any idea how deep the rabbit hole went when it came to the construction of the censorship industry and how deep the tentacles had grown within the military and the national security state in order to buoy and consolidate it. Much of that, frankly, did not even come to public light until even last year. Frankly, some of that was galvanized by Elon Musk's acquisition in the Twitter files and the Republican turnover in the House that allowed these multiple investigations, the lawsuits like Missouri v. Biden, the discovery process there and multiple other things like the Disinformation Governance Board, who, by the way, the interim head of that, Nina Jankowicz, got her start in the censorship industry from this exact same clandestine intelligence community censorship network created after the 2014 Crimea situation. Nina Jankowicz, when her name came up in 2022 as part of the Disinformation Governance Board, I almost fell out of my chair because I had been tracking Nina's network for almost 5 years at that point when her when her name came up as part of the UK inter cluster cell of a busted clandestine operation to censor the internet called the Integrity Initiative, which was created by the UK foreign office and was backed by NATO's political affairs unit in order to carry out this thing that we talked about at the beginning of this dialogue, the NATO's sort of psychological inoculation and the ability to kill so called Russian propaganda or rising political groups who wanted to maintain energy relations with Russia at a time when the US was trying to kill the Nord Stream and other pipeline relations. Speaker 0: Well, they did that. Speaker 1: Marine Le Pen imprint. Speaker 0: They they Speaker 1: Nina Jankovic was a part of this this outfit. And then who who is the who is the head of it after Nina Jankovic went down? It was Michael Chertoff. And Michael Chertoff was running the the Aspen Institute Cyber Group. And then this and the Aspen Institute then goes on to be the censorship simulator for the Hunter Biden laptop story. And then 2 years later, Chertoff is then the head of the disinformation governance board after Nina is forced to step down. Speaker 0: Yeah. Our close friends are Speaker 1: Of course, Michael Chertoff was the chairman at Bay. I'm sorry. Of course. Now Michael Chertoff was the chairman of the he had the the largest military contractor in Europe, BAE, military So so Speaker 0: It's all connected. You've blown my mind so many times in this conversation that I'm gonna need a nap directly after it's done. So I've just got 2 more 2 more questions for you. One short, one a little longer. Short one is for people who've made it this far an hour in and want to know more about this topic and by the way I hope you will come back whenever you have the time to explore different threads of the story. But for people who want to do research on their own, how can your research on this, be found on the Internet? Speaker 1: Sure. So our foundation is foundation for freedom online.com. We publish all manner of reports on every aspect of the censorship industry from Speaker 0: what we Speaker 1: talked about with the role of the military industrial complex and national security state to what the universities are doing. I sometimes refer to as digital MK Ultra. There's just the field of basically the science of censorship and how and the funding of these psychological manipulation methods in order to nudge people into different belief systems as they did with COVID, as they did with energy and every sensitive of policy issue is what they essentially had an ambition for. But so my foundation for freedomonline.com website is one way. The other way is just on X, my handle is mikebensiber. I'm very active there and publish a lot of long form video and written content on all of this. I think it's one of the most important issues in the world today. Speaker 0: So it certainly is. And so that leads directly and seamlessly to my final question, which is about x. And I'm not just saying this because I post content there, but I think, objectively, it's the last big platform that's free or sort of free or more free. You post there too. But, you know, we're at the very beginning of an election year with a couple of different wars unfolding simultaneously in 2024. So do you expect that that platform can stay free for the duration of this Speaker 1: year? It's under an extraordinary amount of pressure and that pressure is going to continue to mount as the election approaches. Elon Musk is a very unique individual, and he has a unique buffer perhaps when it comes to the national security state because the national security state is actually quite reliant on Elon Musk Properties, whether that's for the electrical, the sort of the green revolution when it comes to Tesla and the battery technology there when it comes to SpaceX. The State Department is hugely dependent on SpaceX because of its unbelievable sort of pioneering and saturating presence in the field of low earth orbit satellites that are basically how our telecom system runs, to things like Starlink. There are dependencies that the national security state has on Elon Musk. I'm not sure he'd have as much room to negotiate if he had become the world's richest man selling at a lemonade stand. So there's and if the National Security State goes too hard on him by invoking something like CFIUS to sort of nationalize some of these properties, I think the shockwave that it would send to the international investor community would be irrecoverable at a time when we're engaged in great power competition. So they're trying to kill they're trying to sort of induce, I think, a sort of corporate regime change through a series of things involving a sort of death by a 1,000 paper cuts. I think there are 7 or 8 different Justice Department or SEC or FTC investigations into Elon Musk Properties that all started after his acquisition of X. But then what they're trying to do right now is what I call the Transatlantic Flank Attack 2.0. We talked in this dialogue about how the censorship industry really got its start when a bunch of state department exiles who were expecting promotions took their special set of skills in coercing European countries to pass sanctions on themselves, to cut off their own leg to spite themselves in order to pass sanctions on Russia. They ran back that same playbook with doing a roadshow for censorship instead for sanctions. We are now witnessing Transatlantic Flank Attack 2.0, if you will, which is because they have lost a lot of their federal government powers to do this same censorship operation they've been doing from 2018 to 2022, in part because the House has totally turned on them, in part because of the media, in part because of Missouri v. Biden, which won a slam dunk case actually banning government censorship at the trial court and appellate court levels, is now between before the Supreme Court, they've now moved into 2 strategies. One of them is state level censorship laws. California just passed a new law which the censorship industry totally drove from start to finish around require they call it platform accountability and transparency, which is basically forcing Elon Musk to give over the kind of narrative mapping data that these CIA conduits and Pentagon cutouts were using to create these weapons of mass deletion, these abilities to just censor everything at scale because they had all the internal platform data. Elon Musk took that away. They're using state laws like this new California law to crack that open. But the major threat right now is the threat from Europe with something called the EU Digital Services Act, which was cooked up in tandem with folks like NewsGuard, which is run by which has a Board of Michael Hayden, Head of the CIA, NSA, 4 star General Rick Stengel is on that Board from the State Department's Propaganda Office Tom Ridge is on that Board from the Department of Homeland Security. Oh, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen is on that board. He was the General Secretary of NATO under the Obama administration. So you have NATO, the CIA, the NSA, a 4 star general, DHS, and the state department working with the EU to craft the censorship laws that now are the largest existential threat threat to x other than potentially x advertiser boycotts because there is now disinformation is now banned as a matter of law in in in the EU. And the EU was a bigger market for x than the US. There's only 300,000,000 some people in the US. There's 450,000,000 in Europe. X is now forced to comply with this brand new law that just got ratified this year, where they either need to forfeit 6% of their global annual revenue to EU to maintain operations there or put in place essentially the kind of CIA bumper cars, if you will, that I've been the EU, which is just a proxy for NATO, deems to be disinformation. And you can bet with 65 elections around the globe this year, you can predict every single time what they're going to define disinformation as. So that's the main fight right now is dealing with the Transatlantic Flank attack from Europe. Speaker 0: I've said this 5 times, but that's just one of the most remarkable stories I've ever heard, and I'm grateful to you for bringing it to us. Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, and hope we see you again. Speaker 1: Thanks, Tucker. Speaker 0: Free speech is bigger than any one person or any one organization. Societies are defined by what they will not commit. What we're watching is the total inversion of virtue.
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reSee.it AI Summary
Walking out of SCOTUS after witnessing oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, I felt demoralized. The Censorship Industrial Complex colluded with social media platforms to censor Americans, but the government's abridgment of protected political speech wasn't clearly argued. The fate of the First Amendment may depend on Chief Justice Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The case goes beyond the First Amendment, as it involves expanding the state action doctrine to prevent the state from weaponizing institutions against Wrongthinkers. The government's arguments regarding coercion, traceability, and standing were challenged by the plaintiffs and justices. The government's partnership with social media platforms raises concerns about censorship and the need for more speech and scrutiny during crises. The government's actions during the pandemic were anti-scientific and eroded liberty. The plaintiffs argued that the government can provide competing speech, but not silence Wrongthinkers. The government's coercion and inducements were questioned by Justice Gorsuch. Chief Justice Roberts sought to define coercion and highlighted the importance of context. The government's persuasion argument and the potential consequences were emphasized. Justice Thomas raised concerns about collusion between the government and social media platforms. The government's claims that the censorship regime won't persist were met with skepticism.

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

🧵My impression walking out of SCOTUS yesterday, having witnessed oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri was demoralization. The Censorship Industrial Complex proved itself in the case to have cajoled, coerced, and colluded with social media platforms to censor Wrongthinking Americans en masse, and yet that the government's "partners" abridged clear protected political speech wasn't clearly presented and argued. Whether we will retain anything resembling a First Amendment likely hinges on Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett. Herein, a thread I will update as I parse the transcript🧵 https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/opinion/the-supreme-court-hints-it-may-give-away-our-free-speech-rights-in-social-media-censorship-case/

The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case Outside the Supreme Court, a crowd in shirts reading “Speak your mind, stand your ground” and others hoisting signs with messages like “Fauci lied.” nypost.com

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Multiple times the U.S. government lamented how the plaintiffs in the case were using the courts to "audit" their efforts to conspire with social media platforms to censor us on the Hunter Biden laptop story, election integrity and outcomes, and COVID. Unmentioned is that without Murthy v. Missouri we would've never known about this conspiracy to kill our First Amendment. Is the government's issue with the audit or with what the audit revealed about its depredations?

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Principal Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher sought to make this case about the government using mere "persuasion" (legal) versus "coercion" (illegal) to pressure social media companies to violate the First Amendment on its behalf as deputized speech police. While there was a raft of evidence of coercion, Philip Hamburger -- whose @NCLAlegal represents some of the plaintiffs in Murthy -- persuasively makes the case that that isn't the right standard. As the plaintiffs wrote in their brief, citing Hamburger: "The First Amendment does not require a strict showing of explicit coercion, but capaciously protects the freedom of speech from any 'abridging' (i.e., diminishing) of that freedom."

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Another key plank of the government's case is that the freeze on fed-led speech policing imposed by the Louisiana District Court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals "radically expanded the state action doctrine by holding that even concededly non-coercive communications, like the CDC's public health advice [I would put that in air quotes], can transform private platforms' editorial choices into state action." Thing is, if we do not "radically expand[] the state action doctrine" -- idea being that when a state pressures, coordinates, and colludes with private entities, it transforms them into state entities restricted by the First Amendment, etc. -- then we're going to see the state weaponize virtually every institution against Wrongthinkers to do its bidding. If you want to avoid a social credit system, I'm not sure how you don't expand state action doctrine. That's one reason this case transcends the First Amendment.

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Worth noting upfront, beyond the "persuasion" versus "coercion" argument, and the fact that the First Amendment protects the government from "abridging" speech -- the district court emphasized that "significant encouragement" of a third party to violate the First Amendment on the government's behalf is a sufficient standard too. This calls for a stricter standard to which government officials must adhere. And shouldn't they be subjected to such a standard to protect us from state speech policing? The appellate court agreed that the Biden White House, FBI, CDC, Surgeon General's Office and CISA all engaged in "significant encouragement." The feds naturally disagreed with this analysis, and unfortunately so too may SCOTUS.

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Thomas early in questioning calls out the government over its belief in an expansive government right to speech (but, left unsaid, apparently a far more narrow right for Americans). USG: "It's not a right that comes from the First Amendment. It's a feature of our constitutional democracy." Is it a "feature of our constitutional democracy" though to use government speech (backed with the awesome powers of the federal government) to deputize speech police and abridge our rights?

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Sotomayor presses Fletcher to explain how the preliminary injunction in question freezing federal speech policing by proxy harms the government. Fletcher, framing this case as if the government is largely concerned with combatting foreign threats through consorting with social media platforms regarding content moderation -- when in reality it used the foreign pretext to target Americans on a whole bevy of political and public policy issues -- says "if the injunction were put in place, the FBI would have to think very hard about" its communications with platforms. That's the whole point though, isn't it? The government should have to think long and hard when it is considering taking action that could violate our rights.

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The government also "think[s] it's really troubling, the idea that...classic bully pulpit exhortations, public statements urging actors to behave in different ways, might be deemed to violate the First Amendment." But those public comments were only a fraction of the plaintiffs' case, which showed that privately -- and with the threat of adverse consequences -- the feds repeatedly browbeat and badgered platforms to censor Wrongthinkers

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The other big argument the government continued to return to was a lack of "traceability" from government words to social media company censorship. I thought the plaintiffs could've argued this much more vigorously as they did at the lower courts based on the voluminous evidence compiled. As the district court found: "A drastic increase in censorship, deboosting, shadow-banning, and account suspensions directly coincided with Defendants’ public calls for censorship and private demands for censorship...The Plaintiffs’ theory of but-for causation is easy to follow and demonstrates a high likelihood of success as to establishing Article III traceability"

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The government also says "we certainly don't think that they [the plaintiffs] have shown that they face the sort of imminent threat of future injury that's required to satisfy Article III." Translation: It wants the Censorship Industrial Complex to be fully operative in 2024

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Alito presses the government on it's dismissing the findings of the district and appellate courts regarding the plaintiffs' standing

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The government dismisses the idea that there are smoking guns in Murthy v. Missouri of government directing censorship and then the social media companies censoring. Yet repeatedly government officials flag specific posts and accounts for platforms, press the platforms to censor such content, ask the platforms what actions they've taken, suggest content moderation policies and ask if the platforms have updated accordingly, etc. The direct and indirect pressure was unending. Look no further than my testimony regarding CISA -- which drew largely from the discovery in Murthy. And that was simply one DHS sub-agency. This is a disingenuous argument I wish the plaintiffs had hammered home at oral arguments https://weingarten.substack.com/p/full-testimony-dhs-and-cisas-pivotal

Full Testimony: DHS and CISA's Pivotal Role in Policing Our Speech The federal government's 'nerve center' of our mass public-private censorship regime exposed weingarten.substack.com

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Alito points to the government-as-mafia subtext underlying this case -- that when it constantly browbeats and demands that a private company do X, Y, Z, it does so with immense power. What's more, it does so here with platforms who use a Section 230 shield while at the same time acting as publishers, not neutral conduits for communication

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The government makes a very telling comment here that deserves emphasis. It claims turning the social media platforms into deputized speech police could be attributed in part to "an effort to get Americans vaccinated during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. And I really think that piece of context, it doesn't change the First Amendment principles, but it's relevant to how they apply here." The thing is, when there's a crisis and major public policy issues being discussed, that is precisely when you need MORE SPEECH, MORE SCRUTINY. Not less. There's no exception as the government notes for the First Amendment because government declares a crisis or emergency. The slippery slope is obvious. So is the idea that government will use myriad pretexts going forward to censor us if they evade punishment in Murthy

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

...This is to say nothing of the fact that government got so much wrong with respect to the pandemic. Its tyrannical approach to dissenting views of course was anti-scientific, and arguably did great damage to public health while at the same time eroding liberty and justice

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Here's how the government alibis the idea that there's anything insidious about government and social media platforms serving as "partners" in censoring us https://t.co/PQvEzMISqU

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Alito pressed the government on defending its berating of the social media platforms over their need to engage in greater COVID censorship in one humorous exchange https://t.co/9N2mDkhN1Q

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Note again the government lamenting that the real problem here is that we the public might engage in a "sprawling audit" of its efforts to chide, cajole, and coerce social media platforms to silence us. Imagine applying this "anti-sprawling audit" standard to, say, Donald Trump https://t.co/BHrmk21hso

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

In a rare instance of skepticism, Justice Kavanaugh briefly presses the government on its "partnering" with the social media platforms in content moderation. The government characterizes the relationship as an "open door." But is it an "open door" when you're being hectored publicly about the danger of "mis-, dis-, and mal-information" proliferating on your platforms, and officials all across the government are engaging in a "sprawling audit" of your efforts, constantly pestering and browbeating you to censor more, and doing it all with the potential power to break you via regulation and law?

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Jackson is perhaps even more radical than the government in her view of the First Amendment. By her logic you'd think it's written in the Constitution that the state has an inalienable right to censor the citizen when it deems that circumstances merit it -- as well as that the state is omniscient

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

One key related distinction that the plaintiffs only get to very late in the arguments is that the government can provide competing speech to Wrongthinkers -- it can't silence them, directly or by proxy. As Louisiana Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga will argue later, "if the government thinks there's false speech out there, the remedy for that is true speech"

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Gorsuch gets the government to concede that not just threats but inducements could each be coercive -- including regarding Section 230. He also presses the government on President Biden using the bully pulpit to claim platforms were "killing people" by allowing people to engage in Wrongthink regarding COVID

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Chief Justice Roberts asks the government to essentially define "coercion." The government's position is that "if there's something that the government is saying that we're going to exercise government power in some way unless you change your speech in some way or stop distributing the speech of others, if it's reasonably understood as that sort of a threat, that's a First Amendment problem"

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Chief Justice Roberts presses further regarding the "reasonable person" standard for determining coercion, and points to the idea that context matters -- seemingly to the government's benefit. That Roberts doesn't push back here about the nature of the feds' interactions with the social media platforms is very telling

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

U.S. government: "when the government persuades a private party not to distribute or promote someone else's speech, that's not censorship; that's persuading a private party to do something that they're lawfully entitled to do, and there are lots of contexts where government officials can persuade private parties to do things that the officials couldn't do directly." If the "persuading" -- badgering, browbeating, threatening -- the government engaged in in Murthy, leading to arguably the greatest assault on free speech in human history, is allowed to stand, think about what will come next

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

Justice Thomas presses the government on the idea that the government and social media platforms could've colluded to censor speech, rather than that there was coercion. The back-and-forth also seems to approach antitrust territory, about government-induced collusion between the platforms to censor speech

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The government wants you to believe that the censorship regime imposed under pretext of COVID and the 2020 election won't persist and grow infinitely more pervasive and sophisticated https://t.co/TWdaELxQFo

Saved - May 8, 2024 at 7:09 PM

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

To understand in grotesquely eye-popping detail how corrupt insane & evil this is, watch the video that has been my pinned tweet for the past 11 months:

@MZHemingway - Mollie

CISA, FBI and other Democrat-controlled government agencies are resuming talks with Democrat Big Tech giants to remove information that harms Democrat political control, Democrat Senate Intel chair says https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/05/cisa-fbi-resuming-talks-social-media-firms-over-disinformation-removal-senate-intel-chair-says/396360/

CISA, FBI resuming talks with social media firms over disinformation removal, Senate Intel chair says The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold an election security hearing in two weeks, according to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. nextgov.com
Saved - August 8, 2024 at 2:05 PM

@amuse - @amuse

Democrats are paying unsuspecting influencers millions of dollars to spread dangerous election misinformation. The coordinated effort is the most egregious example of election interference in US history. https://t.co/isZ4eLiNKl

Video Transcript AI Summary
Sunny, a Gen Z influencer, attended the State of the Union at the White House with President Biden. Democratic groups are paying influencers for content creation. Sunae was hired by Protect Our Care to make a video about Trump's agenda. Influencers can earn $3,000 to $10,000 per video. Campaigns aim for authenticity through influencers. Sam Woolley from the University of Pittsburgh studies political influencers for authenticity. Sunny will be at the Democratic National Convention next. The Democrats are providing resources for influencers to create content.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: Sunny, who met us in Houston, was one of a few dozen influencers invited to the White House to watch the State of the Union and meet president Biden. Speaker 1: He said to us, the collective presence in this room has more viewership, on Gen z than all of traditional media combined. Speaker 0: Now Democratic organizations are flooding the creator community with cash and providing behind the scenes access. Come with me to meet the president of the United States. The Harris campaign does not pay influencers directly. CBS News found a constellation of other Democratic political organizations that do. Speaker 1: In the first 100 days of Republican presidency under Trump, project 2025 talks about sacking thousands of civil servants. Speaker 0: Last month, Sunae says she was hired by Protect Our Care, a progressive advocacy group that relies on anonymous donors. She made a video warning about Trump's 2nd term agenda. They almost help you script it. Right? Right. Definitely. She takes their talking points and puts them into her own voice, saying she always discloses when she's being paid. Speaker 1: What's your rate? So a video just for a creator in my size, an average can go from $3,000 to $10,000 depending and upwards. Speaker 2: This is a bid by campaigns to create authenticity at a small scale. Speaker 0: University of Pittsburgh's Sam Woolley studies political influencers. How can you tell what is a genuine grassroots expression of political opinion versus what's being paid for? Speaker 2: If you see multiple influencers spreading the same exact message, you can start to realize, some kind of coordination is going on. Speaker 0: Next up for Sunny, the Democratic National Convention. Speaker 1: They just told us that if we wanted to put on our own show, that they would give us all the resources to do that. Speaker 0: The Democrats are rolling out the red carpet. Definitely. Speaker 1: And I'm I'm glad to be on it. Speaker 0: The beauty inflow
Saved - September 25, 2024 at 2:33 AM

@TheMilkBarTV - MilkBarTV

Compilation of the same people trying to censor 'misinformation' on social media spreading actual misinformation. https://t.co/vngt3SM8kg

Saved - September 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
I believe the First Amendment is a significant barrier to eliminating disinformation completely. The focus should be on winning enough votes to implement change rather than seeking to restrict free speech. While there might be a narrow interpretation of the statement that doesn't suggest overturning the First Amendment, I find it hard to view it positively given my party's history of attempting to censor Americans.

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

"Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win...the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change." No thanks.https://t.co/SLGHOLVjCr

Video Transcript AI Summary
The speaker believes dislike of social media is growing, exacerbating the problem of building consensus in democracies. Traditional arbiters of fact have been undermined, and people self-select information sources, creating a vicious cycle. Curbing social media entities to ensure accountability on facts is difficult due to the First Amendment. The speaker suggests winning the right to govern through elections to implement change. The speaker questions whether democracy can survive unregulated social media, stating democracies are challenged and slow to address current issues. The speaker believes the upcoming election is about breaking the fever in the United States.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: And I think the the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing. And as part of our problem particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't you you know, there's no the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact. They're kind of, you you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree. And, people go and that people self select where they go for their news or for their information. And then you just get into a vicious cycle. So it's really really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I've been involved in this. And and, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb, those entities, in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some accountability on facts, etcetera. But look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our first amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence. So what you need what we need is to is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully having, you know, winning enough votes that you're free to be able to to, implement change. Now obviously there are some people in our country who are prepared to implement change in other ways and that's what we're saying. Really for democracy can survive unregulated social media. I think democracies are deep are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing. And to me, that is part of what this race, this this election is all about. Will we break the fever in the United States?

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

There's a very narrow way to interpret his statement as not a desire to overturn or disregard the First Amendment, but when his party has been routinely trying to censor Americans, I'm unwilling to bend over backwards to interpret his words charitably.

Saved - October 13, 2024 at 1:14 PM

@RobertKennedyJr - Robert F. Kennedy Jr

We are seeing the rise of censorship all around the world. I think the only hope to stop it in our country is to get President Trump back in the White House. https://t.co/KexVZXuXpB

Video Transcript AI Summary
Europe has changed dramatically, and there is no freedom of speech anymore. Pavlov, the head of Telegram, was removed from his airplane in France. Thierry Breton, chairman of the European Commission, allegedly threatened Elon Musk with criminal and civil prosecution if he interviewed Donald Trump live on X spaces. Brazil censored Twitter and other social media sites three weeks ago. This rise of censorship and totalitarianism is occurring worldwide. The only hope to prevent that in the U.S. is Donald Trump; otherwise, this is what will happen if Kamala gets in.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: Europe has changed dramatically. There is no freedom of speech in Europe anymore. We saw the head of Telegram, Pavlov, torn out of his airplane when he stopped to refuel in France, and Thierry Breton, who's the chairman of the European Commission, threatening Elon Musk that if he that if he interviewed Donald Trump live on on x spaces, that he would be prosecuted criminally. And civilly, we saw 3 weeks ago, Brazil censored Twitter and censored a lot of other social media sites. So you're seeing this rise of censorship of totalitarianism all around the world, and I think the only hope for to prevent that in this country is Donald Trump. If Kamala gets in there, this is what's gonna happen.
Saved - October 18, 2024 at 1:32 PM

@stillgray - Ian Miles Cheong

Meta is censoring posts of a Donald Trump event on IG, claiming that they are promoting dangerous individuals or organizations. If this isn’t election interference, I don’t know what is. https://t.co/ejneszoYeJ

Saved - October 23, 2024 at 1:39 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

This violates US criminal statutes against foreign interference in elections. We are going after CCDH and their donors. AND their donors.

@xDaily - X Daily News

NEWS: Center for Countering Digital Hate reveal their primary goal is to "Kill Musk's Twitter" by targeting advertising and leveraging EU regulations. https://t.co/Z5EaX1Khvx

Saved - November 25, 2024 at 12:01 AM

@TheLizVariant - TheLizVariant

“We would have won if we could regulate social media” And THEN they call US a threat to Democracy! It’s truly hard to wrap the mind around how these people can be so anti freedom. https://t.co/FRYXxJu9B4

Video Transcript AI Summary
Regulating social media is crucial, as Congress has failed to address the influence of rogue corporations. After losing an election, some argue that they need to control the narrative and censor opposing views to protect their agenda. They believe silencing dissenting information is necessary because they lack confidence in their ideas and ability to win fair elections. The focus is on maintaining control over the narrative to secure electoral victories. It's ironic that those advocating for censorship may not fully understand its implications, especially if they were subjected to the same treatment as their opponents.
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Speaker 0: Okay. Well, it would help if we could regulate social media because one of the biggest defenders is DC and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations. I gotta get any better Speaker 1: Stop. Again, they lose an election, and then they complain. You didn't censor our opponents enough. We weren't able to control the narrative enough. We need to be able to control what people are saying and make sure the information that we don't like doesn't get out there. If it's harmful to our party or what we're trying to accomplish, we need to censor it. All those pesky facts and that misinformation that gets in the way of our narrative, we need to be able to silence that. Because we're not confident enough in our ability to go out there in the market of free ideas and communicate our ideas better and win fair elections. No. We need to have it rigged in our favor. We must control the narrative. That is how we continue to win these elections. I mean, if you think about it, they lost control of the narrative this election, and Democrats got swept. I mean, it's just a fact. It's so crazy that I hear these people consistently and irregularly talking about censorship. And, you know, maybe they say it like this because it actually hasn't been used against them. But if it was actively used against them in the way it's been used against the right, I wonder if they'd be saying the same things.
Saved - December 21, 2024 at 4:03 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
I just came across a massive 17,000-page report detailing the Biden Administration's alleged weaponization of the federal government. It reveals troubling collusion between DHS/CISA, Stanford University, the Atlantic Council, and Big Tech to form a censorship initiative called the "Election Integrity Partnership." Emails show direct involvement from key figures, including a Facebook executive discussing limitations on DHS's endorsement and Alex Stamos reaching out to NextDoor about partnerships. This raises serious concerns about government influence in elections.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

BREAKING: @Weaponization just dropped a MASSIVE 17,000-page report on the Biden Admin's weaponized federal government. Emails reveal an alarming level of collusion between DHS/CISA, Stanford University, the Atlantic Council, and Big Tech to create the "Election Integrity Partnership's" censorship machine. • Graham Brookie of the Atlantic Council's DFR Labs wrote: "We just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA." • A redacted Facebook executive spilled the beans in an email about a call with DHS, saying: "DHS cannot openly endorse the portal." • Alex Stamos of the Stanford Internet Observatory emailed NextDoor executives: "We already have partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and we would love to chat with you and your team." This is some next-level dystopian sh*t. So how does the Trump admin make sure this BS doesn't happen again?

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

Final Report: The Weaponization of the Federal Government https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/final-report-weaponization-federal-government

Final Report: The Weaponization of the Federal Government WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its final 17,000-page staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee's findings about the Biden-Harris Administration's weaponized federal government. Read part one of the final staff report judiciary.house.gov
Saved - January 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
I’ve been following the controversy surrounding Elon Musk and the UK Labour Party, which has accused him of undermining democracy. However, evidence suggests Labour may be interfering in U.S. elections themselves, with activists coordinating efforts to support candidates and suppress dissent. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is implicated in these actions, raising questions about foreign influence on U.S. politics. As tensions rise, the implications for free speech and U.S.-UK relations are significant, with calls for accountability from Labour and CCDH.

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

🔥 “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!” Musk Exposes Labour’s Secret U.S. Meddling 🚨 UK Labour accuses Elon Musk of undermining British democracy. But what if the real story is THEIR meddling in U.S. elections? 💥 Black ops, FEC complaints, and a crackdown on free speech—it’s a diplomatic bombshell with global implications. Here’s the full story 🧵

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

1/ Labour’s Accusations Against Musk 🇬🇧 In a viral post shared by Elon, Labour MP Barry Gardiner accused Musk of “undermining democracy”, claiming his criticism of the UK government was an attack on a “recently, democratically elected government.” But the allegations quickly turned back on Labour… 👇

Video Transcript AI Summary
Why is the richest man in the world trying to undermine a democratically elected British government? That's concerning for democracy. Your party sent activists to America to plot against Elon Musk's Twitter, which raises questions about why Musk is interested in Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. Labour MPs have made negative comments about figures like Trump and Musk, and they don’t appreciate being insulted. They will respond when they feel disrespected, especially regarding issues affecting working-class communities. Ultimately, it’s about the richest man trying to undermine democracy, and that should be alarming. Meanwhile, I've been focusing on how the Labour Party is undermining free speech and expression.
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Speaker 0: Here You're right, Barry. Speaker 1: Is why why is the guy who is probably the richest man in the world setting out as he has done, saying that he is going to undermine the British government, that he's trying to get rid of, a recently democratically elected government in this country. That Why? That is not good Barry. For democracy. Speaker 0: You belong to a party that sent activists to America to actively plot to, and I quote, kill Elon Musk's Twitter. Labor activists in a in a center for capturing digital hate that was set up by a certain Morgan McSweeney, happens to be Kia Sama's chief of staff. I wonder why Elon Musk has suddenly got a really strong interest in Keir Starmer and the Labor Party. Because let's be honest, Barry, all of those statements that Labor MPs made about Donald Trump, all of those bizarre statements they made about Elon Musk, guess what? These guys don't really like that. They don't like being abused. They don't like being insulted. So they're gonna call you out when you fail, like, when you fail with these white working class girls in communities. Speaker 1: Well, look. It it it is about the richest man in the world trying to undermine democracy. That is wrong. And if you can't see that, Nat, then I would be very surprised. Speaker 0: I've spent more of my time recently looking at how the Labour Party has been undermining free speech and free expression. We're gonna switch it on because

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

2/ Musk Fires Back via Matt Goodwin Political analyst @GoodwinMJ called out Labour’s hypocrisy: “Barry, you belong to a party that sent activists to America to actively plot to, and I quote, ‘kill Elon Musk’s Twitter.’" Goodwin also highlighted Labour’s history of attacking Musk, Trump, and other dissenters. 🔗More details here: https://sayerji.substack.com/p/crossfire-of-democracy-uk-labour

Crossfire of Democracy: UK Labour Accuses Musk of Meddling While Facing U.S. Election Interference Allegations In a transatlantic clash, UK Labour accuses Elon Musk of meddling in UK politics while facing allegations of interfering in U.S. elections themselves. sayerji.substack.com

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

3/ Labour’s U.S. Election Meddling 🇺🇸 Sofia Patel, Labour’s Head of Operations, was caught on LinkedIn coordinating activists to campaign for Harris-Walz in U.S. battleground states: ❗️Nearly 100 volunteers recruited. ❗️Housing & logistics arranged. As a result, Trump filed an FEC complaint, alleging illegal foreign contributions. 📖 Read more: bbc.com/news/articles/…

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

4/ The CCDH Connection 🌍 Labour’s ties to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) deepen the scandal: ❗️CCDH ran “black ops” targeting RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, aiming to suppress their influence and silence dissent. https://greenmedinfo.com/content/exposed-ccdh-ceo-imran-ahmed-orders-black-ops-against-rfk-jr-shocking-memo-lea ❗️Leaked directive: “Kill Musk’s Twitter” aimed to silence dissent and trigger U.S. & EU regulatory action. https://greenmedinfo.com/content/breaking-kill-musks-twitter-leaked-docs-reveal-british-advisors-kamala-harris- 🚨Morgan McSweeney, founder of CCDH, adds another layer of controversy: McSweeney is not only tied to CCDH but also served as key advisers to both Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris’s campaign, creating potential conflicts of interest that fuel allegations of coordinated interference. This web of influence reveals CCDH as more than just an NGO—it’s a political weapon for suppressing opposition and shaping narratives globally.

Exposed: CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed Orders "Black Ops" Against RFK Jr. In Shocking Memo Leak () Imran Ahmed, CEO of the UK-based CCDH, has been exposed in a leaked memo admitting to orchestrating a "black ops" campaign against RFK Jr., a prominent U.S. presidential candidate. This covert operation raises alarming questions about foreign interference in U.S. greenmedinfo.com
BREAKING: 'Kill Musk's Twitter'--Leaked Docs Reveal British Advisors to Kamala Harris Plot to Destroy X and Free Speech BREAKING: 'Kill Musk's Twitter'--Leaked Docs Reveal British Advisors to Kamala Harris Plot to Destroy Musk's X Documents leaked by investigative journalists reveal a coordinated effort by the CCDH to destroy Musk's Twitter, expose the global attempt to suppress free speech and so-called "disinformation" greenmedinfo.com

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

5/ 🚨But Labour Interferes in Their OWN Elections Too The hypocrisy is staggering: while accusing Musk of meddling, Labour-linked groups like CCDH and Hope Not Hate (HNH) have interfered in UK elections: ⁉️Susan Hall’s Mayoral Race: CCDH’s sister NGO, HNH, received funding from the UK’s Counter Extremism Unit, which was used to target Hall. NHN, the same NGO who UK grooming rape gang whistleblower @TRobinsonNewEra exposed, a British taxpayer-funded, government-directed NGO openly took credit for stealing her election chances as detailed below. These groups manipulate elections under the guise of combating "extremism" while crushing dissent. 🧩 Shared Staff: Jemma Levene, former Deputy Director of HNH, is now COO at CCDH. 📖 Full details from @CharlotteCGill : https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-funds-you-hope-not-hate-case

"Who Funds You?"💳👁️ | HOPE not hate As usual, the taxpayer is involved... charlottecgill.co.uk

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

6/ Dark Money Funders 💰 CCDH and HNH act as proxies for government influence, using funds from: 💵Paul Hamlyn Foundation 💵Burrow Cadbury Trust 💵Rowntree Charitable Trust These organizations export their playbook globally, from targeting Cindy Hall in the UK to running black ops against RFK Jr. (the "disinfo dozen") and Musk in the U.S. In fact, leaked documents obtained via an @America1stLegal FOIA request reveal that as early as 2021, the Biden-Harris administration received a “masterclass” in censorship from the UK’s Countering Disinformation Unit (CDU); an interagency meeting which included discussing censoring election-related content, and which promoted a leftist, "woke" dogma. 🇬🇧 This shocking collaboration shows that the UK’s meddling in U.S. democratic institutions has been happening long before the recent election interference controversy surfaced. 📖 Learn more about this troubling, globally coordinated foreign influence operation attempting to censor, adjudicate and criminalize all free speech online: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collu 👉Learn more about CCDH's Funders: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/17-dark-money-funders-behind-ccdhs-kill-elon-s-twitter-directive1

America First Legal Obtains New Internal CDC Documents Revealing Foreign Collusion in Biden-Harris Government America First Legal Obtains New Internal CDC Documents Revealing Foreign Collusion in Biden-Harris Government Shocking details emerge that connect the dots between foreign entities, the Biden-Harris government, and big tech and their attempts to control speech greenmedinfo.com
17 Dark Money Funders Behind CCDH's "Kill Elon’s Twitter" Directive 17 Dark Money Funders Behind CCDH's "Kill Elon’s Twitter" Directive The "Kill Elon’s Twitter" campaign, orchestrated by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), appears to be bankrolled by a global web of 17 dark money funders who use anonymous donations to push a coordinated agenda against free speech on Elon Musk's platform, X. greenmedinfo.com

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

7/ EO 13848 + U.S. Laws UK's Labour Party May Have Violated ⚖️ 1️⃣ EO 13848 (Executive Order 13848): ✅Signed in 2018 to address foreign interference in U.S. elections after allegations of Russian meddling in 2016. It targets any foreign entity attempting to: 🚨Undermine public confidence in elections. 🚨Manipulate outcomes through covert or overt means (e.g., disinformation or logistical support). 🚨Violators can face asset freezes, sanctions, and more. ✅Labour’s coordinated campaigns and CCDH’s black ops could fall squarely under this order’s provisions. 2️⃣ FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act): ✅Requires foreign entities or individuals working to influence U.S. politics on behalf of a foreign principal to register with the DOJ. 🚨Labour’s U.S.-based operations, including activist deployment and links to CCDH, could violate this act if unregistered. ❗️Penalties: Fines, prison, or forced disclosure of all activities and funding sources. 3️⃣ FECA (Federal Election Campaign Act) ✅Prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to U.S. elections, whether financially or through in-kind contributions like housing and logistics. 🚨Sofia Patel’s alleged coordination of activists to assist Harris-Walz in battleground states could breach FECA if Labour provided any form of support. These laws exist to protect U.S. democracy from foreign manipulation. Labour’s actions, if proven, may trigger serious consequences. 🔗Read Trump's complaint against the UK: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/re-complaint-against-labour-party-united-kingdom-and-harris-president

RE: Complaint Against the Labour Party of the United Kingdom and Harris for President RE: Complaint Against the Labour Party of the United Kingdom and Harris for President for Making and Accepting Illegal Foreign National Contributions Those searching for foreign interference in our elections need to look no further than Ms. Patel's LinkedIn post. The interference is occurring in plain sight. greenmedinfo.com

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

8/ Hypocrisy Exposed 🤔 While Labour accuses Musk of meddling in UK democracy, their alleged actions in the U.S.—sending activists, suppressing speech, and coordinating with CCDH—show a troubling pattern of interference. Who is really undermining democracy?

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

9/ Musk Calls Out ‘ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!’ 💥 @elonmusk has publicly blasted Labour, CCDH, and their allies, accusing them of orchestrating attacks on free speech and election integrity—not just in the UK, but in the US as well! The UK’s Online Safety Bill is so tyrannical it could allow Britain to prosecute U.S. citizens for violating their speech laws, effectively reviving “seditious libel laws” against a former colony. This isn’t just hypocrisy—it’s a diplomatic crisis. Elon Musk’s fight for free speech may be the last line of defense for countries where freedoms are being systematically eroded. If speech is silenced everywhere else, platforms like X remain a beacon of hope. 🔥Learn more by reading: The 'Kill Musk’s Twitter' Directive: A Modern 1776 Stand Against a Global Plot for Censorship and Election Interference https://greenmedinfo.com/content/kill-musk-s-twitter-directive-modern-1776-stand-against-global-plot-censorship2 #ElectionInterference #FreeSpeech #Musk #UKLabour #CCDH #DiplomaticCrisis

The 'Kill Musk’s Twitter' Directive: A Modern 1776 Stand Against a Global Plot for Censorship and Election Interference The 'Kill Musk’s Twitter' Directive: A Modern 1776 Stand Against a Global Plot for Censorship and Election Interference In a world where every post, share, and tweet can shape public opinion, the stakes of controlling digital platforms have never been higher greenmedinfo.com

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

10/ Wrapping Up 🚨🇺🇸🇬🇧 As Trump’s campaign gains momentum, his FEC complaint against Labour awaits action—and if re-elected, he’s likely to pursue justice for these alleged foreign interference acts. Meanwhile, Elon faces growing pressure, with the EU Commission being urged to act over his so-called “election meddling.” What’s at Stake? 🗣️ Free Speech: CCDH’s campaigns threaten global discourse. 🗳️ Election Integrity: Labour’s actions undermine democracy. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 U.S.-UK Relations: These tensions could fracture transatlantic ties. What’s Next? Labour and CCDH must come clean. A public apology and reset may be their only way to avoid further fallout. Will they own up—or double down? #ElectionInterference #FreeSpeech #Musk #Trump #UKLabour #CCDH

Saved - March 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
I believe our civilization is under threat from a radical network of NGOs that are behind many crises today, including censorship and migration. The Left has invested heavily in controlling online information, creating a vast censorship enterprise that operates in the shadows. This unprecedented system combines public and private power to suppress dissenting voices. The fight for free speech online is crucial for self-governance and reflects a deeper war on our identity. Tomorrow, I’ll discuss this further with experts at our hearing.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Across the West, our civilization is threatened by a radical network of NGOs. These groups lie behind almost every crisis of our time—from mass censorship to mass migration. Tomorrow, we're going to expose their war on freedom of speech. 🧵 https://t.co/f2my8f4yxJ

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

In the internet age, information is power. The Left knows the stakes. That's why they've waged a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar campaign to control what you see and say online. I explained how their censorship operation works earlier this month: https://t.co/vNDBYyzQiT

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The Left spent the past decade building a vast censorship enterprise. A shadowy network of NGOs, tech groups and governments working to censor the Left's enemies—not just in America, but across the West. Over the next four years, the GOP must expose + dismantle this system. 🧵 https://t.co/XH2EkdGaoM

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

This operation is a dangerous marriage of public and private power—a global system of security agencies, tech firms, activist groups, nonprofits, media orgs and government bureaucracies taking what they describe as a "whole-of-society" approach to censoring disfavored speech. https://t.co/L6mLLdhyTt

Video Transcript AI Summary
Disinformation requires a whole of society approach, not just governmental action. Some countries are more progressive in recognizing this challenge. A whole of society effort is key to empowering people with real and accurate information. This approach means sharing experiences and holding governments, social media platforms, and political leaders accountable. Democracy depends on a healthy information space achievable through this effort. The whole of society response includes the private sector, public sector, and civil society. Cooperation from tech platforms, good faith, and enforcement of terms of service are needed. It also requires government acknowledgment that the problem extends beyond foreign actors.
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Speaker 0: Addressing disinformation requires a whole of society approach. Speaker 1: Disinformation is not going to be fixed by governments acting alone. I think we've seen that a whole of society effort is really key to the solution. Speaker 2: There are some countries, more so in Europe or up in other parts of North America, that are more progressive in recognizing that this is a whole society challenge. Speaker 3: A whole of society approach, like what would be your wish list if you could implement anything. Or to be able to trust when somebody tells them it's fake. Is there anything that governments can do on that front? Absolutely, this is a whole of society problem. So there's things that governments can do, you know, individual national governments and and multilateral institutions. Speaker 4: Disinformation challenges to democracy require that we work together as a community to share our experiences and to hold governments, social media platforms, and political leaders accountable for making sure that people are empowered with information that is real and accurate. Democracy depends on a healthy information space that can only be achieved through a whole of society effort. Speaker 0: Countering disinformation, we often talk about a whole of society response. Of course, we need Speaker 5: Disinformation, a whole of society approach. I wanna get into the, quote, whole of society response, the whole of society network response, private sector, public sector, civil society. Speaker 3: Means that we're circulating, and that to me is the whole of society approach. Speaker 0: I think the solution has to be whole of society, which is a word that we throw around a lot, especially in venues like these. Right? We need cooperation from the tech platforms, good faith cooperation, and enforcement of terms of service. But we also need people in the government who are willing to say, yes, this is a problem and it's not just about foreign actors.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

All of this is completely unprecedented. It's an entirely new, sprawling system of speech and thought control—far more powerful and far-reaching than anything we've seen the past, built with and for the new technology of the digital age. And most of it operates in the shadows. https://t.co/wzUlFSCaYx

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The censorship enterprise is enabled by a vast ecosystem of "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs). These groups represent a fifth column in American politics—a shadow state that serves the interests of the ruling elite, with no accountability to the society it wields power in. https://t.co/RWL0w9nv5F

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

I went into detail about who these groups are, what they do, and how they coordinate with elites in government and elsewhere in my thread earlier this month. We'll get into it much more in tomorrow's hearing too. But let me briefly tell you why this is of such urgent importance.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

In the 21st century, the internet is the new public square. This is where people get the information they need to understand the world. It's where they read, write, argue, and learn. It's where they shape the ideas that will define the future. It's where politics happens. https://t.co/oJ4xGrtP7E

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

That's why this fight matters. The fight for freedom of speech online is the fight for a free people's right to access, analyze, share and discuss information on their own terms, and to draw their own conclusions. In that sense, it's the fight for self-government itself.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The assault on free speech across the West isn't happening in a vacuum. It's inextricably connected to the war on our shared history, heritage, and identity. In other parts of the West—where the crisis is much further along—politicians admit this openly: https://t.co/wYgCtgEfr0

@CaldronPool - Caldron Pool

"Australians don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community..." When did Australians choose to trade their freedom for multiculturalism? https://t.co/P98nqTMlj1

Video Transcript AI Summary
Some members of parliament are pushing to nullify existing laws. This action would send a toxic message to the New South Wales community. Advocates for these changes need to explain what type of racist abuse they want people to have the right to say and be able to lawfully see on the streets of Sydney. Australia does not have the same freedom of speech laws as the United States because it aims to maintain a multicultural community where people can live in peace, free from vilification and hatred seen elsewhere.
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Speaker 0: There's been some that have been agitating in the parliament to nullify the laws, to remove them off the statute books. Think about what kind of toxic message that would send to the New South Wales community, and I think the advocates for those changes need to explain what do they want people to have the right to say. What kind of racist abuse do they want to see or be able to lawfully see on the streets of Sydney? I recognize and I fully said from the beginning that we don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in The United States. And the reason for that is that we wanna hold together a multicultural community and have people live in peace free from the kind of vilification and hatred that we do see around the world.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

You heard the Australian Premier above: They need censorship to carry out their entire social agenda. In America, too, this is part of a much deeper war on *who we are.* It's a tool to silence the critics of the disastrous social transformation that the Left wants to carry out.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

And—as we'll discuss tomorrow—it's all funded by your tax dollars. The sprawling labyrinth of leftist NGOs, nonprofits, foundations and activist groups that drive this agenda don't just work hand-in-glove with their friends in the federal bureaucracy; they're paid by them, too.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

At our hearing, we'll be exposing all of this with three of the world's leading experts on the vast censorship enterprise—all of whom have been warriors for free speech: @MZHemingway, @JonathanTurley and @bhweingarten. Tomorrow. 2 PM. You won't want to miss this one. — End

Saved - May 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
I’ve uncovered some concerning information about the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). They openly admit to running influence campaigns targeting populists, using media, celebrities, and politicians. Notably, Imran Ahmed from CCDH has expressed intentions to exclude conservatives from elections, which raises questions about election interference. Additionally, there’s a broader narrative change initiative funded by various organizations aimed at reshaping public attitudes on key issues, including immigration and conservatism, even infiltrating schools and religious institutions.

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

🔥🔥Breaking! The Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), that is going after Elon Musk, happened to post a US job. Where they admit to running influence campaigns! Does this sound reputable to you? Especially an org that censors populists specifically? “Our uniquely impactful campaigns dynamically combine mainstream media, broadcast, online influencers, celebrities and civil society and politicians to create sustained, intensifying impact for our research-driven insights.” Dang.. This is sick! As for targeting populists specifically: “Populist politicians have allied with haters to gain new advocates and troll armies which harass opponents and institutions that provide checks and balances in liberal states, like the media and judiciary.” “If we do not deal with this threat, it will continue to divide our societies and undermine the strength of our democratic systems.” Booom! Sources to follow!

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

Yeah, I don’t make this stuff up. The Center For Countering Digital Hate is running a star studded influence campaign and even using the media, celebrities and POLITICIANS! And it’s certainly not populist conservative politicians that they are using as I’ll show in my next post. Heck, Labour Together (Democrats) was involved a lot longer than they tell you. Two archives 1. https://archive.is/Cnen7/image 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20210717170929/https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_568cca92d4ae441eaffc40a02ec0b6b4.pdf

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

This document is a lot bigger than folks realize. In 2019, Morgan McSweeney of Labour Together (UK Democrat party) was STILL working at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). While at the same time admitting to targeting populists (conservatives). According to this doc, a tipoff that someone is a populist is a revulsion to political correctness. Oh gosh.. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Bad form Peter. Who else was working on this report? A person from the Soros and Omidyar funded Unbound Philanthropy and oh look, Euan Neill, from the UK GOVERNMENTS Commission for Countering Extremism. Yes the UK government was targeting USA conservatives! Archive 1 https://archive.is/sTeje/image Archive 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20191214143146/https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_ce178075e9654b719ec2b4815290f00f.pdf

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

Sometimes I feel like a fallen tree in empty woods. Imran Ahmed vows to shut conservatives out of elections. This is foreign election interference. And if @AGPamBondi does her job right, she will not only stop this, but destroy the CCDH.

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

🔥Imran Ahmed - Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) in 2019 said that it’s all about the conservative/populist “troll” influence on elections. Vows to shut them out of politics. Says that some ELECTION CANDIDATES need to have their content removed or hidden on social media! *Now hold on a sec, if you are claiming that you need to remove voices in elections, who’s the one interfering in elections here? “Online extremists are already influencing our election – but we can do something about it” “This election campaign will see online trolls attempting to use bile and hatred to gain a platform and to intimidate their opponents. But they only have power if their hate is seen, read, and engaged with. Let’s instead do what we can to shut them out of our politics.” “Populists around the world, from Russia to the Philippines, use online troll armies to harass, frighten and silence their political opponents. In Britain, extremist trolls are having a similar impact. If these tactics are allowed to work and more public figures are driven to remove themselves from public life, we will only see levels of hate increase.” As far as the troll armies, I wouldn’t go there tootsie. Conservatives don’t have organized troll armies, but the left does. Maybe you’d like to educate us? 😉 😬 “This isn’t a new problem, but with the general ELECTION campaign almost underway, it’s too late for further calls for social media companies to act or for the government to regulate - although they should. If we’re to stem this tide, we need to change the way we react to online abuse.” “Deleting or hiding comments on candidates’ Facebook pages, when they cross the line from criticism into hateful abuse or hateful language, also keeps the space safe for the vast majority who want to discuss and debate politics without harassment.” *Once again, this is election interference. Source link to follow. And yes, I was hinting about something.

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

Unbound Philanthropy and Pop Culture are connected to Imran Ahmed of CCDH. And are utilized for Narrative Change aka brain washing. Like I have already shown you, Imran Ahmed was a lead at a narrative change org. Narrative change eas created to destroy the populist right. “The political, economic and social developments that have given rise to populist and conservative movements the world over are a rude wake-up call. There is a new sense of urgency.”

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

Exclusive! “Re | Claiming the Narrative for Social Change” A breathtaking 2019 document exposes the massive brainwashing network of the left. Just as we thought, it’s all coordinated and includes both the UK and US with plans to brainwash the entire world with progressivism. Likely a thousand plus narrative change linked orgs. Including the Narrative Initiative, and 350 dot orgs which I already discussed at length. The NGO’s involved are funded by the usual suspects like, Soros Open Society, Ford Fndn, Omidyar, Atlantic Philanthropies etc. But there’s also a UK side with Oak Fndn and Soros Eurasia OSF, etc. These are not limited to operating in their respective countries. I even found mention of at least two orgs in a gov grant doc which involves infiltrating schools at our expense. Imran Ahmed of The Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is associated with those orgs. Noteworthy - these plans involve defunding ice which Biden just added to a funding request. Here’s a short rundown of the doc: They are infiltrating the Catholic Church, reclaiming “disinfo” narratives, setting climate narratives, deploying narrative change in media, stopping the border wall, decreasing Fed funding for detention of illegals, training children against conservatism in schools especially if migrants are there, pushing LGBTQ on our children, and shoving migration down our throats. All in order to reclaim progressive rule. We need to watch our children’s schools even closer for further indoctrination. It’s not just LGBTQ and race, they are there to turn our children against us. We also need to communicate with churches to see who is contacting them. They are even sending priests, sermon talking points! They also send talking points to the media too. I find it noteworthy that they are concentrating on brainwashing schools with migrants against conservatism. Here’s some alarming quotes on objectives: 🔸 “The political, economic and social developments that have given rise to populist and conservative movements the world over are a rude wake-up call. There is a new sense of urgency.” 🔸 “This report provides a mapping of initiatives supported by various European and American philanthropic bodies. These initiatives aim to leverage the power of strategic communications, and in particular, effective narratives.” 🔸 “All are engaged on projects relating to narrative change, strategic communications and research aimed at changing public attitudes on issues ranging from immigration, human rights, gender equality, sexual reproduction and sexual orientation rights and the closing of civic space. 🔸“This mapping of a philanthropic response on strategic communications for narrative change is a real-time snapshot. It covers a wide range of actions being taken, from research to movement building. It aims to spotlight opportunities for collective strategic communications solutions.” Here’s some of their orgs/funders: 🔹Narrative4 – Story exchange “There is a need for: 👩‍👧1.Outreach programmes that engage children and young adults at school and community levels to build understanding and support for core values and to counter conservative action. 👩‍👧2.Narrative programmes that work with schools and local communities, particularly in areas of high migration. 👩‍👧3.Initiatives that empower young adults to design solutions and lead on progressive values.” * So far, it has reached 200 schools (2019). 🔹More in Common “More in Common piloted programmes with the Catholic Church, NGOs and five mayors of areas with mixed populations. This included research on the opinions of Catholics later used as the basis for producing successful messages to engage priests, Catholic organizations and believers. Notes for sermons were explored to see how to reach anti-migrant people.” ———————————— Being out of space, this will be continued. And I will also show that our censorship apparatus is involved in narrative control. Link will be in the next post.

Saved - February 7, 2026 at 6:23 AM

@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz

I want you to listen to me when I tell you the EU Digital Censorship Act was co-designed, in the United States, by Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans, explicitly as a legal crowbar to force global censorship of populist movements and governments on both sides of the Atlantic.

@EU_Commission - European Commission

Online platforms offer a lot of benefits, which our citizens can best enjoy when we mitigate certain risks. Think of addictive features, harmful content, and risks to our children, consumers, democracies and electoral processes. This is why we have the Digital Services Act. ⬇️

Saved - November 13, 2023 at 2:19 AM

@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL

🧵 TWITTER ALGO FINALE THREAD 🧵 This thread will serve the purpose of providing a mountain of evidence to @realannapaulina for her congressional hearing against Twitter 1.0 employees for their role in mass censoring Conservative Americans. https://t.co/6Qf24tjJei

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