@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:
@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."
@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
@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
@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:
@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.
@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
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
@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan
As always, more to come. Read our 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 Stay tuned…
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
This is a big deal
@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.
@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.
@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
@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
@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
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
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
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
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
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
@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!
@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
@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
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
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
CENSORSHIP: DHS, CISA, GEC and STANFORD
@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
💥NOTHING TO SEE HERE — JUST CRAIGSLIST hiring ANTI-TRUMP MERCENARIES in PHOENIX. (CRAIG NEWMARK is the founder of Craigslist.) https://t.co/TBV2TaRfSa
@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
@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.👇
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
4/ The DHS quietly corrupted CISA's mission when it designated domestic disinformation as cyber attacks on "critical cognitive infrastructure." @FFO_Freedom@MikeBenzCyber @TuckerCarlson
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.”
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.”
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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."
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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."
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
23/ Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform' https://www.kanekoa.news/p/elon-musk-slams-cisa-censorship-network
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
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/
@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/
@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
@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
@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:
@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
@TheMilkBarTV - MilkBarTV
Compilation of the same people trying to censor 'misinformation' on social media spreading actual misinformation. https://t.co/vngt3SM8kg
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
This violates US criminal statutes against foreign interference in elections. We are going after CCDH and their donors. AND their donors.
@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
@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
@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… 👇
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
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
@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
@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
@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 🦁 💪🏻
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.”
@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.
@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