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The government and those pushing for one world government are insidiously evil, as seen in videos. No one suffers consequences, while Trump is targeted with fake charges. No one in authority on the right is doing anything about it. Brennan is one of the most corrupt and evil. The German Marshall Fund is involved.

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

These two videos are indicative of how insidious our government, and the others pushing for one world government, are. It’s truly unbelievable how evil these people are and the depths that they will go to to reach their endgame. And it will not end because no one ever suffers any consequences. The most disheartening part is that our country has become so corrupt and disgusting that the perpetrators of all of these crimes and conspiracies are able to continue on while their main victim (Trump) is constantly targeted and has fake charges filed against him.

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There was a coordinated campaign by elite institutions in America to delegitimize Donald Trump. They portrayed him as a stooge of Vladimir Putin and spread disinformation about his election. However, the Russian interference in the 2016 election was exaggerated, with minimal effect. Organizations like the International Fact Checking Network and the Hamilton 68 dashboard claimed that fake news caused the election outcome and installed themselves as compliance cadres within platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter executives, including Yoel Roth, who reviewed the Hamilton 68 dashboard, knew that the accusations were baseless but kept quiet. The mainstream press largely ignored this information, allowing the exaggerated narrative to become the official one.

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Speaker 0: And you had this coordinated campaign by the elite institutions in America to delegitimize Donald Trump and the mechanisms that they used for this. You talked about this tendency towards a kind of tribal factionalism, and and fighting when we lose trust in society. And that can be bad enough. But in this case, what happened was, essentially, you know, not all of, but virtually all of the federal bureaucracies together with the other elite institutions who control the sense making apparatus in America. They all got in on this conspiracy. And the conspiracy was to portray Donald Trump as a stooge of Vladimir Putin and to suggest that, you know, his election was illegitimate and that he was one day, he was a fascist. The next use a Putin agent. They were used sort of interchangeably. And then disinformation entered the picture at the end of Barack Obama's term in office. And the last thing Barack Obama did was to sign, through the NDAA, essentially the defense bill, to sign the countering foreign disinformation act, which, created this agency, the global engagement center in the state department, and fully committed the US political class and the US government to a counter disinformation campaign, which was really always in spirit and very quickly in practice as well, and information more directed against the American people as it had to Speaker 1: be since then. Forum then in the name of that agency was just forgotten about? Or was the the the the sort of myth of And I'm keen to see whether you think it was a myth of of so much international interference. Was that a way to legitimate The surveillance. Or how did the foreign aspect of that get forgotten? Speaker 0: It got forgotten because the Russian interference in the 2016 election was grossly, wildly exaggerated, And its effect on the election was always something of a myth. You know, the famous Facebook ads that turned out to be $100,000 in spending that were actually split between ads for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the infamous troll farms that, you know, nobody could ever prove what effect they actually had that were tweeting Ridiculous things like, you know, just just sort of, cartoonish memes about Hillary Clinton that We we were all supposed to take at face value that because there were x number of memes that converted this many float voters, but It was all smoke and mirrors. Speaker 1: But do you think there was just just to be clear, do you think there was an attempt by Russian actors or the state or whatever to influence the 2016 election via disinformation campaigns? Speaker 0: Yes. Of course. As is the standard in elections. And this wasn't the first time That happened and, and it's not at all clear that the intent was to help Donald Trump. There's evidence, evidence that was excluded from the highly politicized initial intelligence assessment produced by Obama appointee and former CIA director John Brennan in 2017, which, became sort of canonical, even though it was, utterly it was a political document in which claimed that Putin wanted to help Donald Trump. But what what came out later was that contrary theses, from intelligence professionals, Russian experts inside the US intelligence agencies, who believed based on the classified evidence they had seen that actually Putin preferred Hillary Clinton because he thought that Trump was a wild man and that he would have an easier time working with Clinton. That was excluded from the initial ICA that, Brennan oversaw and put out. So did Russia interfere in the US election? Yes. To what effect? We don't know precisely, but it seems to have been fairly negligible. That was certainly Facebook's Original assessment, you know, Mark Zuckerberg came out and said, this is absurd. This idea that, Disinformation on Facebook or or what was still at the time called fake news affected the election. We've looked into this in our own private records. We find no evidence of it. This is what Zuckerberg said immediately after the election. And what happens is there's a coordinated pressure campaign from cutouts, organizations that are created to look like objective fact finding bodies, but which are in fact funded by, sort of, you know, what you could either call democratic party operatives, ruling ruling party operatives, organizations like the International Fact Checking Network, which is created by Pointer, which is, You know, without getting into all the details, people can look up, look it up and and see for themselves. But these organizations tend to be objective, neutral scientific organizations, and they say, hey, actually, A, fake news did cause this, and and, b, we can help you so you never have this problem again. And that's how they install themselves inside of Facebook as this sort of privatized compliance cadre, to ensure that there is no more dissent against certain ruling party orthodoxy. Speaker 1: So the truth, as you see it, is that, yeah, Russia tried to interfere, probably not very effectively in any direction. Maybe they have a Policy of generally trying to sow chaos around the place, and that's part of what they consider to be, you know, effective for their interests. But the effect of that was hugely exaggerated, and it almost became this foundational myth which allowed the all of these new organizations to blossom and this much more this clampdown to start, really, in the years after 2016. It it was a reaction to that Trump victory. Speaker 0: Yeah. But forget about how I see it. Let's look at how Twitter executives saw it, who were privy to, you know, some of the initial deliberations about how to deal with so called Russian deliberate, Russian disinformation. So Yoel Roth, for instance, who was, by no means a Trump supporter, you know, a vocal opponent of Donald Trump who, you know, said something along the lines of he was a a fascist in the White House, and who, Yole Roth was the Twitter public safety officer in in 2017. When he was reviewing the what was called the Hamilton 68 dashboard, which was a supposedly a dashboard tracking Russian influence on Twitter, and on social media, which took its funding from the German Marshall Fund, which is in part a project of the US government, and from the Alliance For Securing Democracy, which was an organization started by and staffed by just one high level, Democratic Party official or, intelligence agency official after another, people like Michael Chertoff, Jake Sullivan, now the National Security Council. So this is, I know I'm I'm going over a lot here, so let me just, Remind people, so Hamilton 68 is the name of this very high profile dashboard, as it's called, at the time that is Tracking Russian influence on Twitter and on social media gets a ton of attention in the press when it debuts in, the fall of 2017 gets write ups everywhere. And it's as Twitter officials are looking at the back end because Hamilton 68 itself never discloses its list of supposed Russian agents, which it is using to map out this vast conspiracy of Russian influence online. It refuses to disclose that on the grounds that if it discloses it, these Russian operatives will go into hiding. Well, Twitter is able to reverse engineer it because they have access to it on the back end. And there's a series of conversations, and this all comes out from Matt Taibbi's reporting primarily, but from other people's reporting as well through the Twitter files. Absolutely, like, bombshell stuff that the mainstream press largely just ignores, and it shows that people like Roth are saying, You know, Roth calls it bullshit. He says that the there's no evidence, that these people who are being accused of being Russian stooges are actually Russian stooges, that they're being smeared without evidence. And there's an internal conversation about this at the time inside of Twitter, And it's just swept under the rug. So even somebody like Roth, who knows that this is bullshit, calls it that, doesn't say anything to the public. So the Hamilton 68 narrative, which gets picked up and trumpeted by the press becomes the official narrative.

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

And there isn’t one person in authority on the right (or with a conscious) who is doing a dam thing about it.

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On January 7, 2017, the head of the Department of Homeland Security declared the electoral infrastructure of the United States as critical infrastructure, giving the federal government control over it. This move faced resistance from local electoral officials. Later, under the pretext of foreign disinformation, a small group of political officials gained unilateral power over the entire US political system. They seized control of the electoral system and social media platforms, using intelligence agencies to monitor and censor content. With the arrival of COVID, these measures were applied to combat what was called the "infodemic" of COVID disinformation. Government-led efforts to censor COVID disinformation were supported by companies like Facebook, who claimed to have censored millions of posts related to COVID disinformation.

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Speaker 0: On January 7, 2017, Jet Johnson, who is the head of the Department of Homeland Security, passes a measure that declares the electoral infrastructure of the United state's critical infrastructure that is going to be federalized and protected by the government. So this happens after he's tried to do this for months. He runs into massive resistance, and you can read Johnson's own account, I described quote Johnson in the piece, talking about how when he tried to do this initially, local electoral officials, were saying you can't do this. This is a usurpation of our local, sovereignty. So how does he do it? He just you know, he says, okay. No problem. And then he waits till he's almost out of office and passes this. So now the federal government and, specifically, Department of Homeland Security, has control over the electoral infrastructure in the US. Now COVID to election integrity. What it means hit Freddie, what it means in effect is that this was a kind of coup and that under the pretext of foreign disinformation, a small but very, well organized coterie of political officials, declared essentially unilateral power over the entire US political system, that's what it means. And so they did this by, you know, sort of seizing seizing the commanding heights like the electoral system and like the social media companies themselves where the intelligence agencies installed their own teams to monitor you know, effectively to to monitor dangerous content and then to push for what they wanted censored. So all of this has a political context up until COVID arrives, it goes from foreign to domestic, but it's still in some sense explicitly focused on political threats, or if you prefer, you know, foreign threats. Then COVID arrives and it all gets, seamlessly, it's applied to COVID, which is described as the infodemic. Right so, again, to to your point about the opacity of these terms and the ways in which they're not they're ill defined. They're amorphous. They're they're simply vehicles for, censorious power. And so what was supposed to be focused on foreign disinformation then becomes a means of censoring what is supposedly deadly COVID disinformation, which is, you know, we're told over and over again, is literally killing people. So you have these government led, efforts to censor COVID disinformation. And, you know, you have companies like Facebook, or it's Meta, actually, so this would include both both Facebook and Instagram, bragging about censoring or flagging, you know, downvoting, in some way censoring more than 20,000,000 posts related to COVID disinformation

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

Brennan is probably one of the most corrupt and evil. https://t.co/p6cuXPZ6TC

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

🚨 Vital for everyone in the US who wants to remain free to hear this. When you listen long enough you’ll finally find someone who accidentally tells the truth. Enter John Brennan, the creator of the Russia collusion hoax to get rid of President Trump. No doubt he was also…

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The speaker discusses the challenges faced by the CIA's analytical function in the next 15 years. They mention that the world is becoming more challenging, with nation states facing increasing threats and individuals identifying with subnational groups. This is causing a shift in the authority of nation states and governments. The speaker emphasizes the need for the CIA to understand and anticipate these changes, and to work with foreign governments. They also highlight how analysis has evolved within the CIA, now driving various activities such as collection and operational activities. The speaker mentions the importance of utilizing intelligence from various sources, including social media, to inform their actions and policies.

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Speaker 0: Talk to me a bit about, at CIA and its analytical function and how you see the challenge of the next 15 years and how you have to change and adjust to that challenge. The world is becoming more and more challenging. Nation states are under increasing, to, challenge and threat. More and more, we see individuals in different quarters of the world who are identifying with subnational groups and organizations. And and so just the authority of nation states and governments, I think, is being looked at in a different way than it did just 20 years ago. To and so this is one of the things that we really have to be able to understand and anticipate and work with foreign governments. Because if you're going to have basically a dissolution of the nation state structure that we've had for centuries, it's really going to be even a more chaotic world. On the analysis, we have to not only help to inform policy makers to about those trends and developments worldwide. But analysis for CIA has taken on many more dimensions than it did when I first joined the agency in 19 at that time, CIA's analytic work was really exclusively, limited to the finished all source analytic products that we give to present in others. Now, analysis drives so much of our activity. Whether we're talking about collection, whether we're talking about, different types of operational activities or corporate action. That analytic insight, taking full advantage of the intelligence that we get through various means, to as well as taking advantage of the increasingly rich open source environment in social media so that we're better able to inform our activities as well as better inform our activities as well as better inform our policymakers. So analysis is becoming more and more of a driver of so many different elements of CIA's mission. Okay.

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

No consequences https://t.co/iI4P8xIVig

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James Clapper and John Brennan lying under oath.

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Government officials, like James Clapper and John Brennan, have been accused of lying under oath before Congress. Clapper denied the domestic surveillance program, but his body language suggested otherwise. When asked if the NSA spied on US citizens, he initially denied it, but later admitted to it. Similarly, Brennan initially denied spying on the Senate, but later apologized when evidence was presented. These officials have managed to avoid charges despite their dishonesty.

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Speaker 0: Lying under oath before congress. Let me give you some examples. Lying under oath before congress. These are government officials lying under oath and getting away with it, not even being charged with anything. James Clapper denied the domestic surveillance program. Remember that film? And it was Ron Wyden, we just was just cooking him like a piece of bacon. No, I'm asking you, how has the NSA spied on US citizens. And and Clapper, I'm a behavior now, so my master's degree is in forensic psychophysiology. That's a big word for detection of deception. And the Director of National Intelligence was not aware of his body language at all. I don't know if you've seen the tape but are you spying on American citizens? No. I'm asking you again. That's because all the nerves in your face are firing. I'm asking you again. Are you spying on American citizens? Oh, not wittingly, he says, lies under oath. And does a terrible job of it. He's not he's not even good at it. John Brennan, denied. No. We didn't spy on the senate. No. No. We never did that until they got him. Oh, yes. You did. We got the the IP address trail right here. It was you. Oh, okay. I guess we did. Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize, he says.

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German Marshall Fund https://t.co/ENAswYFUvE

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The German Marshall Fund and elections. It appears that with everything else this group does, infiltrating elections is a main component through their group Alliance for Securing Democracy. There is nothing bipartisan about this group but they have to say that to keep their tax…

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The Brennan Center played a significant role in fortifying the 2020 election, with support from various organizations. They communicated with election officials, advocated for mail-in voting, and provided guidance on polling sites and supplies. They partnered with groups like CTCL and National Vote at Home Institute. They also engaged in litigation and audits. The Brennan Center's ties to Soros and involvement in progressive initiatives raise questions. Further research is needed to understand their impact on the election.

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🔥 Thread 🧵 In my opinion, the Brennan Center did an exemplary job in fortifying the 2020 election. With generous help from Soros Open Society, Ford Fndn, Omidyar Democracy Fund (Partnered with Arabella/Soros Democracy Alliance), Rockefeller, Tides, Soros Fund Charitable Fndn and many thousands of other orgs! The Brennan Ctr estimated it would cost at least ➡️ $4 BILLION ⬅️ to “protect” all elections including primaries throughout 2020. Here’s what the Brennan Ctr proudly accomplished: ♦️ Constant communication with a coast-to-coast network of hundreds of election officials. ♦️ Pushed, “Covid-19 Should be a Legitimate ‘Excuse’ to Vote by Mail”. ♦️Pushed the purchasing and deployment of centralized vote tabulation machines (high-speed scanners). ♦️ Suggested localities deploy drop boxes to reduce their postage cost and increase security. ♦️ Partnered with the National Association of Secretaries of State. ♦️ Prioritized protecting the election by countering disinformation, misinformation, and attempts at further suppressing the vote under the pretext of a pandemic. ♦️ Provided solutions such as where to locate polling sites and how to configure and supply them. ♦️ Released tool kits for activists in all 50 states. In each tool kit, they identified the voting reforms needed in each state. ♦️Worked with local groups in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas on state specific voter education and protection efforts. ♦️Worked alongside the Center for Tech and Civic Life and National Vote at Home, etc. (Zuckerbucks) ♦️ Conducted high-level media briefings and partnered with ABC. ♦️ Traveled to Georgia to help election officials conduct a recount of the presidential vote. ♦️ Helped to develop and implement Pennsylvania risk limiting audits. ♦️ Their attorneys filed or intervened in lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas. To quote the Brennan Center on the 2020 election: “We are pleased to share with you this report on the truly extraordinary year that was. As we reflect on the Brennan Center’s accomplishments in 2020, we can say with great pride and relief that in the end, democracy prevailed against brazen assaults on our electoral processes, against lies intended to equate ballot access with stolen elections, and against naked attempts to delegitimize the votes and voices of Black and brown people.” Thread will include all evidence. Plus I will expand on CTCL with past threads. And who knows, there could be more.

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Let’s begin with the earliest changes first. In March 2020, the Brennan Center put together this document. Yes, the Hamilton68 crew was involved with the Brennan Center election discussions. Also recall that Michael Chertoff was both on the advisory council for Hamilton68 AND is on the DHS Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee that I just exposed. “This report represents the consensus of an ideologically diverse group of organizations: the Alliance for Securing Democracy (Hamilton68), the Brennan Center for Justice, Pitt Cyber, and R Street Institute.” Inside this doc you will find info on mail in ballots, drop boxes, new voting equipment, ballot discussions with examples, early audit discussions with diagrams, false narratives, Covid 19 as an “excuse” to vote by mail, and cybersecurity etc.

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Thread: These Brennan Center documents make it obvious where the voting changes came from. Mail in Voting changes, who contributed? Globalists such as: Carnegie Corp, Democracy Alliance Partners, Ford Fndn, Abby Rockefeller, Open Society Fndns. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20200603/110768/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-PrezM-20200603-SD003.pdf

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This here is another Brennan Center Doc following the 2020 election. That estimate for the 4$ billion in cost was published AFTER the 2020 election and early in 2021! Here you will find mention of: 🔹Constant communication with a network of hundreds of election officials. 🔹Countering disinformation & misinformation. 🔹Provided instructions on where to locate polling sites and how to configure and supply them. 🔹Supplied tool kits for activists in all 50 states. 🔹Had attorneys that intervened in lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas. 🔹Conducted high-level media briefings and partnered with ABC. 🔹Traveled to Georgia to help election officials conduct a recount of the presidential vote. https://web.archive.org/web/20210509014015/https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/2020-annual-report

2020 Annual Report In an election year like no other, Brennan Center worked to ensure that democracy prevailed. web.archive.org

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What this also means is that the Zuckerbucks crew was involved in election audits. The National Vote at Home Institute was part of Zuckerbucks. County election officials, Department of State staff, and election experts from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, National Vote at Home Institute, Verified Voting, and VotingWorks participated in developing and implementing the Pennsylvania risk limiting audit pilot. "We're proud to partner with state and local election officials to help them implement the gold standard of post-election audits to protect voter confidence in the integrity of our elections." Liz Howard, senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Official PA site 👇🏻 https://www.vote.pa.gov/About-Elections/Pages/Post-Election-Audits.aspx

Post-Election Audits vote.pa.gov

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This is a pretty startling revelation. The Zuckerbucks, Center for Tech and Civic Life and the National Vote at Home Institute worked with the Brennan center. And that one Zuckerbucks org, the National Vote at Home Institute, at the very least, was involved in the 2020 PA election audits. This deserves more research. https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/wprorg/report_of_2020_election_season_-_final.pdf

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🙀 Holy cow! As @JonathanLiles1 pointed out to me, a Brennan Center staffer was quoted for the Times 2020 Election Fortification article! “The litigation brought by the Trump campaign, of a piece with the broader campaign to sow doubt about mail voting, was making novel claims and using theories no court has ever accepted,” says Wendy Weiser, a voting-rights expert at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. “They read more like lawsuits designed to send a message rather than achieve a legal outcome.” https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election The extraordinary effort was dedicated to ensuring the election would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. Here's how it was done time.com

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Also included on the shown list of partners for the National Association of Secretaries of State is the Brennan Center tho I didn’t mention it in the linked thread. More alarming is that the Defending Digital Democracy Project is listed. This is where the EIP and the Crowdstrike etc election equipment security started at. (Harvard Belfer). Also notable on the list: 🔹Alliance For Securing Democracy (Hamilton68 with Chertoff etc) 🔹CTCL (Zuckerbucks) 🔹National Vote at Home Institute (Zuckerbucks) 🔹Mitre Corp Read this thread 👇🏻

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🔥🔥🔥Breaking! The National Association of Secretaries of State is partnered with the hoaxers, Alliance for securing Democracy aka Hamilton68. So who else is in this partnership? -Democracy Fund (Omidyar and parent of CTCL) -Center for Tech and Civic life (Zuckerbucks) -Twitter -Google -Facebook -Defending digital democracy -The Carter Center -etc https://www.nass.org/node/2148

NASS Thanks All Who Helped Promote #TrustedInfo2020 Election Initiative | NASS nass.org

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⚡️ Harvard Belfer is where the Defending Digital Democracy Project started. And it’s partnered with the Brennan Ctr thru the National Association of Secretaries of State. This is where election security started before it went to the ones we recognize today (EIP and CIS). This Belfer project involved CROWDSTRIKE, DHS, DOD, NSA, Google, and Facebook. Senior fellows at Belfer include Robert Hannigan, Nawaf Obaid, Ash Carter, Jeh Johnson, Robby Mook, Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, James Clapper, Dmitri Aloperovitch (Crowdstrike), Kurt Campbell, and Lisa Monaco etc.. 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ Harvard Belfer fellow and FBI agent, James Baker, worked at Twitter and belonged to the NTFEC. 3 sister orgs that work together are: ♦️National Task Force on Election Crises ♦️➡️Transition Integrity Project⬅️ ♦️Silver Linings Group 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ In fall 2019, the Belfer Center named Lauren Zabierek, Maria Barsallo Lynch, and Julia Voo to head 3 of the Centers growing cyber-related projects: The Cyber Project, Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P), and China Cyber Policy Initiative (CCPI). Now the Atlantic Council (EIP) is partnered with and several STANFORD folks collaborated with China’s United Front, CUSEF that functions as part of the CCP United Front Work Dept. Here’s a great thread with sub threads on the Defending Digital Democracy Project. 👇🏻

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💣 💣💣💣Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School is involved in running 2 programs. 1. China Cyber Security Working Group 2. The Defending Digital Democracy Project - Crowdstrike, Google and Facebook on election machine security issues with DHS NSA DOD. https://mobile.twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1580227336405852161

Bad Kitty, Censored By X🦁🤐 (@pepesgrandma) on X 🚨🚨🚨Breaking! Campaign managers for Hillary and Romney, thru a Harvard program, gathered up folks from CROWDSTRIKE, DHS, DOD, NSA, Google, and Facebook to work on election vulnerabilities. Sending folks to examine equipment and trying to hack servers etc https://t.co/b6FrBIqiE2 mobile.twitter.com

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Here’s a great thread that explains the relationship between the National Task Force On Election Crises and The Transition Integrity Project. NTFEC contains 3 members of the Brennan Center and is the most represented group. 🔸 Wendy Weiser - Brennan Ctr 🔸 Elizabeth Goitein - Brennan Ctr 🔸Lawrence Norden - Brennan Ctr 🔸 James Baker - Former FBI Counsel, Russiagate, and Twitter 🔸 Tammy Patrick - Democracy Fund 🔸 Tiana Epps-Johnson - CTCL (Zuckerbucks) 🔸 Yasmin Green - Google Jigsaw 🔸 Christine Chen - Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote 🔸 Terry Ao Minnis - Asian Americans Advancing Justice 🔸Plus more Link to member page: https://www.electiontaskforce.org/members Thread 👇🏻

Members — National Task Force on Election Crises electiontaskforce.org

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8. What is lesser known about Jim Baker, and which mainstream news is not currently appreciating, is that in the run-up to the 2020 election, Baker was also leading the National Task Force on Election Crises (NTFEC).

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Getting ready for my big reveal and tying off loose ends. I just tied in the Brennan Center to much worse. (Also I promised this.) Here in this thread you will find evidence that the Brennan center worked right alongside the Center for Tech and Civic Life, and National Vote at Home for Zuckerbucks.

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All of the below were worked on by the Brennan center in conjunction with Zuckerbucks CTCL. I read the emails between them from Wisconsin. And I have the Brennan center document. 🧵 down

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Ok, so the Brennan center worked with the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)? Well, CTCL was mixed up in a lot more than people realize. Try election narratives. They even had a GLOBAL emergency meeting on Jan 6. AND created words to apply to the Jan 6 individuals. There’s tons and tons more in here. Please read!

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Zuckerbucks org, CTCL, was involved with partisan: election narratives, Jan 6 narratives, and disinfo work. Previously I exposed that CTCL itself and FirstDraft News (disinfo group), partnered with the supposedly non partisan Election SOS. (Funded by Omidyar Democracy Fund.) Well, news flash, Election SOS’s parent org, Hearken, also partnered with CTCL and even shared office space! Their partner, First Draft News, was created with Google seed money. And had massive connections to the UK gov paid, Integrity Initiative. And this was involved in our elections!

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And if this wasn’t enough already, the Brennan Center, who did all those wonderful things for the elections, including helping with audits, is a Soros Democracy Alliance Aligned Partner Organization. (APO). https://www.influencewatch.org/app/uploads/2019/04/Democracy-Alliance-2020-Investment-Portfolio-Report.pdf And here’s evidence that Soros is a founding co-founder of the Soros Democracy Alliance (DA) politico.com/f/?id=00000158…

Page not found - InfluenceWatch influencewatch.org

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Recall all the Brennan Center election lawfare efforts? “NEO Philanthropy’s State Infrastructure Fund Supports Seven Litigation Wins for Voter Rights INDIANA The BRENNAN Center for Justice at NYU School of Law won a court case temporarily halting an Indiana law that would ignore required federal safeguards for voters and would illegally remove individuals from voter rolls in the state.” Read more on Neo Philanthropy here. 👇🏻

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💥Breaking Thred! NEO Philanthropy, a little known Soros partnered org that prioritizes BIPOC, claims their use of minorities had a major role in determining election results in 5 states! Can you guess the 5? They also claim to be bipartisan and get tax free status. But they have talked about progressive and anti Trump causes a good bit. 🟣 “In November 2020, 159 million people turned out to vote—turnout not seen in more than a century.” “Central to this transformation is NEO Philanthropy’s State Infrastructure Fund (SIF).” They also have 42,000 legal volunteers. 🟣 The bio of the Head of their State Infrastructure Fund: “Erica assumes leadership of SIF after a period of dramatic achievement.” “In the 2020 election period alone, SIF, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) collaborative fund, awarded $56 million to 140 orgs in 17 states.” “African Americans eligible to vote in a presidential election hit a record 30 million, playing a major role in determining election results in AZ, GA, MI, PA and WI.” 🟣 In the Fall 2016 Soros Democracy Alliance doc, The Neo Philanthropy State Infrastructure fund was listed to receive checks for the “Committee On States” an Aligned Partner Organizations (APO) of Soros Democracy Alliance. Recall I found that Soros was a co-founder of Democracy Alliance. 🟣The State Infrastructure Project falls under Donor Services. In my referenced article, it worked in eight states across the country. (This number changes yearly.) “NEO’s Donor Service program meets a growing demand within the philanthropic sector for social justice groups to unify and collaborate with mission-aligned partners in order to empower movements and generate 🔸PROGRESSIVE🔸social change in our communities.” I’ll show tons more evidence in a later post that they support progressive policies. 🟣The groups supported by the State Infrastructure Fund are 501(c)(3) nonprofits and cannot make direct political expenditures. “But some of them, including Black Voters Matter, which was co-founded by activist LaTosha Brown, and the New Georgia Project, are associated with 501(c)(4) organizations, which can participate in politics, subject to limitations.” “Pro Georgia, is the nonprofit that manages grant money from the State Infrastructure Fund.” Pro Georgia is a member of the State Voices Network. State Voices is a Soros Democracy Alliance Aligned Partner as listed in 2016 doc mentioned above. (See photo) The grantee list (Who gets money from them.) for the Neo Philanthropy State Infrastructure Fund is massive! (See doc) Here’s a few notables: ♦️American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - recall they worked on elections in at least Georgia. ♦️Brennan Center for Justice - Involved in election changes, Zuckerbucks, and audits etc. ♦️ Common Cause - Involved with DHS for election censorship etc. Listed in the same doc are the donors. Here’s some highlights: ♦️Carnegie Corp of New York ♦️Democracy Fund ♦️Ford Fndn ♦️Open Society Fndn Fndn ♦️Unbound Philanthropy ♦️Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 🟣 STATE VOICES SOROS DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE “A core part of SIF’s early grant-making, and one that continues was to support “state Tables.” These orgs, many of which are associated with a national umbrella org State Voices, coordinate the activities of civic engagement groups in a state so they are strategically aligned, and their collective plans are designed to have the greatest impact.” “SIF collaboratives prioritize BIPOC” and uses “a racial equity/justice lens”. Extra 🟣2018 Neo Philanthropy announced 3 new partner donor services: 🔹Democracy alliance polled fund 🔹NEW AMERICAN MAJORITY FUND 🔹Virginia plus 🟣 The Four Freedoms Fund is a project of NEO Philanthropy. Recall earlier discussions on this, CCDH, Unbound Philanthropy, & Narrative Change use. 🟣 The ADL works with the Thought Partnerships Hub thru the Bridging Divides Initiative. Thought Partnerships is ran by Neo Philanthropy. *All referenced links will be in a later post.

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Oh I’m sorry, I forgot the link for Neo Philanthropy Litigation efforts that included the Brennan Center. The Neo Philanthropy State Infrastructure Fund helped create and now supports a national voting rights infrastructure, including a collaborative of 12 of the country’s most respected public interest legal organizations. https://web.archive.org/web/20200702150125/https://neophilanthropy.org/neo-philanthropys-state-infrastructure-fund-supports-seven-litigation-wins-for-voter-rights/

NEO Philanthropy’s State Infrastructure Fund Supports Seven Litigation Wins for Voter Rights | NEO Philanthropy The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF), a collaborative fund at NEO Philanthropy, seeks to increase civic engagement and protect voting rights among communities of color and other historically underrepresented communities by funding networks of local leaders and state based-nonpartisan organizations who effectively engage their communities and work with national and state litigation organizations to protect the … Continued web.archive.org

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Title: Unveiling the Complex Web of Disinformation: Examining the Role of NGOs, Governments, and Social Media Introduction: In today's interconnected world, the spread of disinformation has become a pressing concern. This article aims to shed light on the intricate relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, and social media platforms in disseminating misleading information. By exploring various initiatives and collaborations, we will delve into the efforts made to counter disinformation while emphasizing the need for transparency in these operations. NGOs, Governments, and Social Media: A Nexus of Disinformation: The connection between NGOs, governments, and social media platforms in amplifying disinformation has raised significant concerns. To address this issue, the State Department GEC and Drog developed the AMITT framework, which serves as a valuable tool in countering disinformation. However, questions arise regarding the influence of entities such as Sofwerx, New Knowledge, Sara J Terp, and Jonathan Morgan in shaping public opinion. It is crucial to examine the extent of their involvement and advocate for greater transparency in their operations. Government Task Forces and Collaborative Efforts: Recognizing the urgent need to combat propaganda, advocates have called for the establishment of a government task force. This led to the creation of the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which aims to monitor and respond to disinformation effectively. Additionally, social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), enabling information sharing to combat terrorist content. These collaborative efforts demonstrate a collective commitment to address disinformation on various fronts. The Network of Disinformation: The disinformation network involves a wide range of organizations and collaborations. The World Economic Forum, Google, Hacks/Hackers, and the Credibility Coalition are among the entities engaged in countering disinformation. Furthermore, the World Health Organization's collaboration with the CTI League has been instrumental in controlling COVID-19 messaging, ensuring accurate information reaches the public. It is essential to understand the roles played by these organizations in shaping the narrative and countering the spread of disinformation. The Influence of Misinfocon: Misinfocon, funded by Craig Newmark and the Knight Foundation, has emerged as a significant player in shaping disinformation efforts. This organization has played a pivotal role in fostering discussions and initiatives aimed at combating the spread of misleading information. By examining Misinfocon's contributions, we gain valuable insights into the ongoing efforts to address disinformation challenges. Conclusion: As disinformation continues to pose a threat to public discourse, it is crucial to comprehend the intricate web connecting NGOs, governments, and social media platforms. The AMITT framework, government task forces, collaborative initiatives, and the involvement of various organizations highlight the collective commitment to counter disinformation. However, to ensure the effectiveness of these efforts, transparency in operations becomes paramount. By fostering open dialogue and promoting accountability, we can strive towards a more informed and resilient society in the face of disinformation challenges.

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1. More on my huge expose’: Essentially I found how NGO’s and gov work together on social media and OFF LINE too. I highly suggest you read the last doc in this tweet, it explains their methods. Earlier I introduced you to the word, “Amitt” (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques). I found this thru the State Dept GEC partnered org called Drog. AMITT, is an information security-based framework for responding to disinfo. ➡️ How they do this is the interesting part. ⬅️ It’s very important to know this. 👇🏻 ♦️The Blue Team framework is how THEY RESPOND to disinformation.♦️ I found a GitHub page that led me to everything there is to know about how AMITT works. AMITT was later upgraded to the DISARM framework and used for Covid disinfo in coordination with Chris Krebs (CTI League). More on this later. And it’s also how I found Sara J Terp which led to a tweet and an article she was in. More on the article later. Tweet archive https://archive.is/0y56y Sara said there would be no more secrets, so I took her up on this. Thank you Sara! Also listed under her tweet was a very interesting article that led me to finding additional history on Amitt. I was also introduced to Sofwerx and her work pals. This is coming up next and very interesting! “2017-2018: SJ Terp starts working on adapting information security tools, processes, and procedures for disinformation use. She links up with JJ Snow, Pablo Breuer, the usual collection of infosec geeks, and the SOFWERX team to work on characterising and countering hybrid incidents (cybersecurity plus disinformation, noting that information operations have always included this).” GitHub link - there’s all kinds of links and goodies. https://github.com/DISARMFoundation/DISARMframeworks/ Archive of page: https://archive.is/BocFC Next we will review AMITT a tiny bit further using a document that describes how Blue Team responds to each incident. You really need to read the Blue Team counters. This is an entire doc of responses. Here’s one example of counters for rallies and protests. 🔹Doxing (Name and Shame) 🔹Cut off Banking Access 🔹Infiltrate Groups 🔹Etc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kc0O7owFyGiYs8N8wSq17gRUPEDQsD5lLUL_3KGCgRE Doc Archive https://archive.is/YKzBr 🔸List your favorite counters in a reply! I’ll review AMITT/DISARM more a bit later. This was just to acquaint you. Make certain to read the intro first.

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🔥 Thread 🧵How I found the info for my newest expose’: I have found that the State Dept GEC actually is partnered with Drog, the creator of Harmony Square. Drog has multiple connections to the global disinfo apparatus. Although I have no idea if Drog did anything else besides Harmony Square with the State Dept, this led to huge discoveries. I have 2 terms you need you to acquaint yourselves with because they will be coming up a lot later: ♦️Cogsec Collaborative ♦️AMITT framework The Drog Forensics Journalism project used the AMITT framework. An artificial intelligence platform used for global disinfo work. This led me to discover AMITT which enabled my massive discoveries. As per the actual State Dept, Adtac is a project of Drog. And Adact was also working in partnership with the CogSec Collaborative. My second huge lead. Interestingly, the state dept deleted the linked Disinfo Cloud page on Adtac. I’m curious what was on it? No archives exist.

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In this below thread, you have the first days of Sofwerx working with Sara Terp, Pablo Breuer, Marc Rogers etc on what will become the Amitt framework. It was an invitation event. I also added what Sofwerx is, and how it came about. It’s Special Operations Cyber Command working with non government orgs (NGO). But it seems to me that they are incubating the NGO’s tho they say they don’t do this.

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2. What led me to the Dept of Defense Sofwerx international disinfo work with non military folks? Most specifically thanks to an ex UK Ministry for Defense person in the US who was also the prev CTO of the UN's big data team: “ONE DAY IN early June 2018, on the anniversary of D day (June 6) Sara-Jayne Terp, a British data scientist, flew from her home in Oregon to Tampa, Florida, to take part in an exercise that the US military was hosting (Sofwerx in FL). Terp: “I think they instantly classified the report.” But she wound up at dinner with Pablo Breuer—the Navy commander who had invited her—and Marc Rogers, a cybersecurity expert (Now working with the WH). “The trio left Tampa convinced there had to be a way of analyzing misinformation campaigns so researchers could understand how they worked and counter them. Not long after, Terp helped pull together an international group of security experts, academics, journalists, and government researchers to work on what she called misinfosec.” “So when Breuer invited Terp back to Tampa to hash out their idea six months later, she decided not to fly. On the last day of 2018, she packed up her red Hyundai for a few weeks on the road. She stopped by a New Year's Eve party in Portland to say goodbye to friends. Thus began an odyssey that started with a 3,000-mile drive to Tampa but didn't stop there. Terp spent almost nine months on the road—roving from Indianapolis to San Francisco to Atlanta to Seattle—developing a playbook for tackling misinformation and promoting it to colleagues in 47 states.” “In Tampa, Terp and Breuer swiftly got down to plotting their defense against misinfo. The misinfosec group eventually developed a structure for cataloging misinformation techniques, based on the ATT&CK Framework. In keeping with their field's tolerance for acronyms, they called it AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques). Last October (2019?), the team integrated AMITT into an international, open source threat-sharing platform. That meant anyone, anywhere, could add a misinformation campaign and, with a few clicks, specify which tactics, techniques, and procedures were at play. Terp and Breuer adopted the term “cognitive security” to describe the work of preventing malefactors from hacking people's beliefs—work they hope the world's cybersecurity teams and threat researchers will take on. “People on the receiving end (of disinfo) usually don't see the big picture. They just see 5G trending or a friend's Pizzagate posts. Or, as 2020 got off the ground, links to sensational videos about a new virus coming out of China.” https://archive.is/eHnsy Dr. Pablo Breuer is a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center and twenty-two-year veteran of the U.S. Navy with tours including military director of U.S. Special Operations Command Donovan Group and senior military advisor and innovation officer to SOFWERX, the National Security Agency, and U.S. Cyber Command as well as being the Director of C4 at U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. https://archive.is/sTpSH SJ Terp works on disinfo mechanisms and counters. She was CTO of the UN’s big data team, designed machine learning algorithms and unmanned vehicle systems at the UK Ministry of Defence, and taught data science at Columbia University. She holds degrees in AI and neural networks. She runs Bodacea Light Industries, is a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council, and chairs the Cognitive Security CoLab. (Plus sooo much more! I’ll follow this up.) https://archive.is/SKbnP Marc Rogers is a UK citizen based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been hacking since the 80’s. Most recently Mr. Rogers helped found the CTI League, a multinational cybersecurity initiative combining industry professionals, government agencies and law enforcement from 80 different countries. https://archive.is/2MLAp Link for Marc’s WH announcement photo https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcrogers_readout-of-office-of-the-national-cyber-director-activity-7024215758415044608-qgJF?trk=public_profile_like_view

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Part 3 covers the details on the building of the AMITT disinfo framework by Sara Terp and crew. Renee Diresta helped. Also inside I found a doc that showed Sara Terp as an actual employee of Sofwerx. And she worked on the disinformation rating system for the Global Disinformation Index. Recall that Sofwerx was created under a Partnership Intermediary Agreement, established in September of 2015, between DEFENSEWERX and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Does this make her a US gov employee? I don’t know, does anyone here know?

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3. Sara Terp builds the AMITT Disinfo Framework with help from Renee Diresta of New Knowledge & Stanford plus others. The Misinfosec Working Group (“misinfosecWG”) is part of the Credibility Coalition (CredCo). This was used by Sara Terp to incubate the AMITT disinfo framework. She and Christopher Walker started the CredCo misinfosec working group in Dec 2018, and officially launched it in Jan 2019. “MisinfosecWG has come a long way since Pablo of Sofwerx and I talked in 2018 about creating standards for misinfosec” (Interesting note here - The DC workshop was held in the Atlantic Council’s meeting space) https://archive.is/5HJUa Prior to the Atlanta meeting, in March, 2019 they started working on AMITT. May 24, 2019 the credibility coalition (credCo) misinfosec working group met for a session in Atlanta at the Carter center. Those present to work on AMITT were Sara-Jayne Terp, Christopher Walker, John Gray, Courtney Crooks, Chau Tong and ➡️ Renee DiResta ⬅️ There they revisited their collection of existing models (Mitre ATT&CK model, marketing funnels, psyops, DOJ model), and models from Renée diResta, Ben Decker, Clint Watts and Bruce Schneier. Also utilizing Ben Nimmo’s 5 D’s. By the end of their working session at CredConX at the Carter Center in Atlanta on May 24, they successfully created AMITT. As Rand Waltzman and Renee DiResta have noted, “Disinformation is a not a problem that can be solved. It’s like a chronic disease that can be managed — not cured- allowing the afflicted to lead a moderately normal life.” https://archive.is/vQKRO AUGUST 29, 2019 Austin, Texas-based New Knowledge raises $11 million for cybersecurity to combat disinfo and fake news https://archive.is/D7z5D Also note that on Dec 4 2018, SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM/J5 Donovan Group, hosted a Radical Speaker Series covering weaponized information. Sara Terp and David Perlman were there. David Perlman was a Twitter employee and worked with Sara Terp and Rand Waltzman too. I’ll show this in a bit. https://archive.is/fKll2

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Part 4 covers the DISARM foundation. This was established some time after the Disarm framework (previously called AMITT) was put into use. DISARM is an upgrade. It’s also been formally taken up by the US government now in the last few weeks. Although it was part of CTI League that Chris Krebs used for Covid. Next we move on to CTI League.

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Part 4 - Bad Kitteh Expose’, when you think it can’t get worse, it does. The Disarm foundation - The disinfo Framework was put into use long before the foundation was created. Disarm, was previously called AMITT and was first used for the CTI league Covid disinfo program. First trialed by the EU and picked up by the US. The Executive Dir, Jon Brewer, was prev Dir of Development at the Global Cyber Alliance UK July 2018 to June 2021. You know that other expose’ I recently released? The GCA is a WEF product. Before this he worked at its sister WEF org, Salesforce. (Hyphen8 is a Salesforce consultancy.) SalesForce just so happened to work with the Post Office iCop AI spying program called Zignal. With 1400 Intelligence professionals. And coincidentally, Rand Waltzman is at Zignal. Rand is good friends with Sara Terp and worked with her. (Coming up) https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jpnbrewer?original_referer= Notice the Alliance4EU being a partner? I’ve written about them before. Omri Preiss, a Disarm Vice chair, is Managing Director of Alliance4Eu. Their staff was involved in the Netwar System and Social Media Intelligence Unit. And those folks are involved in a lot here too. We’ll come back to this. Partners and staff link https://archive.is/bWddt ♦️SJ Terp and Pablo Breuer, led the initial 2019 AMITT creation and remain the joint design authority of Disarm. ♦️Craig Newman funded this just like the Global Cyber Alliance ♦️The AMITT (DISARM) disinfo framework has been used in practice across the UN, WHO, EU, NATO and various country teams. https://archive.is/GRvW6 🚨This just happened, the DISARM Framework was just formally adopted by the EU and the US governments. Talk about timing. Is the US trying to sneak in disinfo programs? Why now?🚨 https://archive.is/eUUWk Coming up next is CTI League which runs on the Disarm Framework. Later I may possibly also post more DISARM information here.

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Part 5 exposes Chris Krebs for working with CTI League which handles disinformation by swarming hashtags, using online and offline influencers, using volunteer ELVES and tons more! Yes, people on social media are being affected by gov coordinated influence operations. I have a ton more on this for another day. Next I think we’ll discuss just what elves are. And where this term originated from.

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🔥Part 5 - Bad Kitteh Expose’ Busts Chris Krebs! CTI League - This used the Disarm disinfo framework for Covid Chris Krebs worked with CTI League for Covid which included a disinformation team. Here’s the Chris Krebs tweet linkie where he said CISA partnered with them. 👇🏻 https://archive.is/6byvE March 2020 CTI League report: “The CTI League neutralizes any threat in the cyber domain regarding the current pandemic, including disinformation. The mission of this effort is to find, analyze, and coordinate responses to the current pandemic disinformation incidents as they happen, and where our specialist skills and connections are most useful. Disinformation is a new workstream within the league. Formed Wednesday 8th April, it has already hit the ground and is tracking several major disinfo campaigns.” Some examples of what it was used for? 🔹WeWontStayHome protests 🔹Covid 5G misinfo 🔹 Texas Freedom Force rally’s 🔹Operation Gridlock rally’s https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://cti-league.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CTI-League-Inaugural-Report-March-2020.pdf CTI League Management Team: Ohad Zaidenberg Nate Warfield (Microsoft) Chris Mills (Microsoft) Marc Rogers https://archive.is/KN7pI And of course, Terp had to be involved. 😏 Rogers had helped organize an international group of volunteer researchers. He had been seeing a flood of misinformation like the video Breuer analyzed, and Rogers wanted to know if Terp would run a team that would track campaigns exploiting Covid. She signed on. https://archive.is/eHnsy Ohad Zaidenberg, is also a lead cyber intelligence researcher at Israeli Clearsky Cyber Security. CTI League’s ranks of volunteers has skyrocketed with more than 1,400 vetted members in 76 countries spanning 45 different sectors, including cybersecurity, healthcare, technology, telecommunications, computer emergency response teams (CERTs), government, and law enforcement. These stats increased a lot over time, for this invite only org. Chris Krebs: “CISA is working around the clock with our public and private sector partners to combat this threat. This includes longstanding partnerships, as well as new ones that have formed as a direct result of COVID-19, including the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTI League).” https://archive.is/7Ic6a Here Ohad Zaidenberg gives examples of trolling Social Media to fight “disinfo”. “Post large volumes of unrelated content on known misinformation hashtags (as the LGBT community did to the proud boys).” Read more of this thread at the link. CTI League Darknet Report 2021: “CTIL Dark has assessed during our research that disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories of COVID is one of the biggest threats to the general public’s health and safety.” “Niacin, was observed to be referenced and promoted highly by the conspiracy theory group QAnon and later promoted by the same community on Twitter.” https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://cti-league.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CTI-League-Darknet-Report-2021.pdf CogSecCollab maintains and updates. We've used DISARM in the CTI League's Covid19 responses, and tested it in trials with NATO, the EU, and several other countries' disinformation units. https://archive.is/8moaV CTI League is run by three group coordinators from the UK, US, and Israel. Private sector companies like Microsoft and Amazon are in the mix. https://archive.is/ybQqW Potential responders include the whole of society, including the infosec bodies already linked by the ISAOs and cyber Interpols. That’s platforms, law enforcement, government, ➡️ELVES⬅️(volunteer groups), the public, ➡️ONLINE and OFFLINE INFLUENCERS⬅️, media, nonprofits, educators and corporations. CogSecCollab has built theory and examples for effects-based, tactic-based and doctrine-based countermeasures. The CTI League team is using effects-based counters: reporting to law enforcement, platforms, and registrars, with CogSecCollab helping to connect the RealityTeam COUNTER-NARRATIVES group back to the CTI League. https://archive.is/zpWLS We’ll be hearing more on CTI League later.

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Part 6 is on Elves and influencers (trolls and disinfo researchers) used in the disinfo/misinfo racket. Volunteers that help silence “disinfo” both online and offline. They even coordinate with the news. This will also cover their use in the AMITT/DISARM disinfo framework. This is used by the US, UN, EU, NATO, and tons of other foreign governments. The USA just officially partnered with the DISARM foundation tho they worked with them for the CTI League Covid program.

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Part 6 - Bad Kitteh expose’. You don’t want to miss this thread! Globally ran disinfo Elves and influencers used for internet trolling, internet account reporting, disinfo research, and even media collaboration! Also accused of spreading disinfo themselves. This is very likely how our disinfo researchers and censorship came about too. We will cover this in multiple tweets: ♦️History of Elves and influencers. ♦️What are some of the orgs that use Elves and influencers? ♦️I will share modern discussions of Elves and influencers by orgs. ♦️How do Elves and influencers fit in with the Amitt/Disarm framework? — The History of Elves and influencers — The first Elves are often referred to as the Baltic Elves, Lithuanian Elves, and the Latvian Elves. Their first use was claimed to be in 2014. The earliest Elve activity: The Baltic elves – They became active in 2015 after the Maidan Square events in the Ukraine. Volunteers monitored the internet for Russian disinfo and responded. https://archive.is/ObNQK This here is a Zinc Network aka Integrity Initiative doc on Elve use. Interesting huh? 🤔 (Photo) “Zinc Network’s currently implementing the FCO's flagship £9m EXPOSE project to counter and build resilience to disinformation by working with 40+ media outlets in Europe and the Baltics (e.g. Latvian Elves, Demaskuok and Propastop).” https://archive.is/oOOKI And the Elves are mentioned in this Expose Network report quite a lot. The Expose Network is the Zinc Network aka Integrity Initiative. Here the Elves are accused of spreading disinfo themselves. 😏 (Photo) “The Lithuanian Elves (also known as the Baltic Elves) have been extremely successful at exposing Russian media manipulations, but have been accused of fomenting anti-Russian prejudice and spreading falsehoods themselves. Their credibility inevitably suffers from the fact that they are volunteers, not trained journalists.” https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/untitled-pdf-document.pdf They (Lithuanian Elves) got their name, says their founder Ricardas Savukynas, “because elves fight trolls.” Working alone, and meeting only in the virtual space of Facebook groups, they jump into action whenever one member identifies a piece of fake news or a number of fake accounts that seem to be the clear product of Russian troll farms. By reporting the disinformation en masse to the platform they eventually generate enough complaints to have it removed by Facebook. https://archive.is/HiECB But Elves aren’t just used on Social Media, they are used for the news too! This article shows how the Lithuanian Elves fit into operations at countering disinfo. Their work thru the Mainstream Media reaches 90% of their countries population! (Photo) (Debunk dot eu has tuned its algorithm and partnerships towards the presidential elections in Lithuania. 200,000 articles per day were reviewed and they use speech-to-text technology to analyse TV programmes and video on demand.) https://archive.is/uZr3D In an age of internet trolls, Latvia has the perfect response: an army of “elves” to take them on. The project takes its lead from an existing initiative in Lithuania, which has already attracted several thousand “elves”. https://archive.is/TBSVo Here’s a 2022 article on Elves used in the Ukraine war. “Cyber elves from all over Europe are supporting their comrades in Ukraine by fighting the Russian narrative. The cyber elves are groups of anonymous cyber activists established in 2014 to fight against pro-Kremlin trolls and Russian disinfo and cyber operations.” Paywall but you can see plenty: https://visegradinsight.eu/cyber-elves-helping-their-comrades-in-ukraine/ Here’s a few suggestions from a cofounder of CTI League showing 3 of the 5 D’s used by AMITT/DISARM (Photo) “Deny: Challenge misinfo creators to prove they're not an information operation.” “Disrupt: Post large volumes of unrelated content on known misinfo hashtags (as the LGBT community did to proudboys).” “Degrade: Promote healthy narratives, Make more noise than disinformation”

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Cyber Elves Helping Their Comrades in Ukraine In the Czech Republic, the cyber elves are monitoring the main narratives surrounding the conflict in Ukraine in the central European information space. visegradinsight.eu

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Part 7 Although Reality Team technically should be under the Elves and Influencer section, it’s too significant to bury. We are talking about government partnering with social media influence operation runners.

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🚨🚨 Part 7 Bad Kitteh expose’ Reality Team, a part of the DHS CISA partnered CTI League. Artificially pumping out stuff on social media to bury, “disinfo”. Wouldn’t this be considered another form of censorship? Recall how I showed CTI League suggested hijacking hashtags, and challenging social media users etc. (See link in 1st tweet of part 6.) CTI League uses the Disarm Disinfo framework first used for Covid “disinfo”. Reality Team: “We have focused campaigns on combating election and vaccine disinformation, and are now embarking on an effort to combat climate disinformation.” Reality Team Partners: ♦️CTI League ⬅️ ♦️Hacks/hackers ♦️Credibility coalition ♦️CogSec collaborative ♦️USC Annenberg ♦️The Propwatch Project (We will be reviewing the other orgs later.) This is funded by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Reality Team is a project of Hacks/Hackers a 501(c)(3), which was founded to catalyze collaboration between journalists (Hacks) and technologists (Hackers). They were founded Aug 2020, only months before the election. https://archive.is/9uWZz Sara J Terp is on the board of Reality Team along with being involved in a massive disinfo censorship network. Recall she worked with US Special Ops Command Sofwerx. Including working with the EU, WHO, NATO and the UN. https://archive.is/zjgjL Here’s Sara Terp at a State Dept GEC meeting discussing Reality Team. “This is the AMITT (DISARM) Blue framework: it contains 160 countermoves to the campaign and incident techniques that we analysed with AMITT Red. We used information operations frameworks to create this, specifically the classifications Deny, Disrupt:, Degrade, Deceive:, Destroy, and Deter - for each tactic stage and Red technique. We’ve partnered with counter-disinformation groups like RealityTeam who use targeted counter messaging and metrics to push away disinfo narratives.” https://archive.is/rVH99 The CTI League team is using effects-based counters: reporting to law enforcement, platforms, and registrars, with CogSecCollab helping to connect the RealityTeam counter-narratives group back to the CTI League. https://archive.is/zpWLS In the included video from Sept 20, 2020, Deb Lavoy, the founder of Reality Team, discusses how they are short on time till the 2020 election. The objective? To artificially drown out disinfo. They were involved in countering anti Covid masking too.

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With the next election approaching in 116 days, the speaker emphasizes the need to simplify and address the impact of disinformation. They identify three categories of people affected: the reality team, who can distinguish truth from fiction; the indoctrinated, who believe lies and conspiracy theories; and the confused, who lack trust in any information source. The speaker focuses on helping the confused by making reliable information more visible, simple, and memorable. They introduce the "reality team" and their three initiatives: explainers, talking points, and the network. They seek assistance in research, writing, social media management, design, networking, and funding. The goal is to provide competition to disinformation and promote a balanced understanding of the world. Contact information is provided for those interested in getting involved.

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Speaker 0: But the clock started ticking down faster and faster and faster. It's a 116 days as of today to the next election. And we're at a point where it's now or never. So the only thing left to do is to simplify. And so This was my approach to simplification. I have all kinds of windows that are in the way of what I'm trying to say here. Disinformation in and of itself is Something to study, but, really, what I wanted to look at is who is it affecting? It's affecting roughly 3 categories of people. The reality team, these are people a lot like you and me. We can usually tell truth from fiction. Nobody can tell always. The indoctrinated, these are the people who, you know, the lies and conspiracy theories are affecting them, they believe, pretty much anything Fox News says. And then there's a third category of the confused. These are people, I think about my son who's in college now. They're not focused on the news, and they don't really trust any source of information anymore. Oops. So the reality team, we don't really have to worry about them. The indoctrinated, that's not a 120 day problem. That's a longer term problem. I can't help them. So let's focus on the confused. So why is disinformation so impactful on the confused? And it's because the information space looks like this. The disinformation is, presents itself in really bold, really simplistic terms. It's incredibly pervasive. It's everywhere. It's unavoidable. It's very, very repetitive. It sticks in your mind. Whereas the more reliable information, requires more engagement. You need to read it more carefully. It's not always presented in such simple terms. They're not using the tools of rhetoric and marketing to push information in the same as successfully as disinformation. So our job is, in this very brief window of time, not to end disinformation or disrupt Disinformation, although that would be nice, but to compete with it. So the job is to make real information as visible, simple and memorable as the fake stuff. And then the confused will have, a much more balanced understanding of what's going on in the world. They will have opportunities to turn to sources that resonate more with their general sense that, you know, things should be reality based, things should make sense. So, I got together with some, friends, and we have formed what we're calling the reality team. And what we're doing is 3 things, explainers, talking points, and the network. Explainers Take, issues 1 at a time, issues that should perhaps be simple, but have been complicated by disinformation. Should I wear a mask? We give them the bottom line up front. So within 3 seconds, piece people should have the key points. We get into the q and a of it, the common questions we're seeing out in the world and answering them in very plain language. And at the end, we show our work. So we show that the work is valid and reliable by showing the all the references and places that we have, retrieved this information from. Then we build talking points. Masks Do work, and master patriotic. Masks are something you can do for your country right now. So we take these talking points and we refine them as we see how people are responding to and we push them out into the network. We are ramping up to try to get to publishing 3 topics per week and as much, exposure as we can possibly get on these things. And this is reliant on, the network that we are building. The network is building rapidly, but we have to accelerate it as much as possible to make it work. So we need some help. So if you're sitting around wondering what you can do, in this next 3 month period, maybe maybe you could help us out. We need people to do the research. We need writers. We need social media managers to help, manage the various channels. Some better designers would be great, actually professional designers. We need people who are great at networking, and we are also, looking for funding so that we can use not just organic growth, but also, the engines of amplifications on the platforms. So if you are so inclined, You can, follow us on Twitter or, Instagram at reality team eleven. You can contact me at deb@realityteamdot org. And, with any luck, we can give disinformation some competition in the next, important time frame. And thank you very, very much.

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Part 8 delves into the connections between these people and the CIA linked Integrity Initiative. Both Sara Terp, and Pablo Breuer who were at the Atlantic Council Disinfo Portal with all those Integrity Initiative folks and orgs, were Atlantic Council themselves. (Evidence inside the thred.) These folks worked in unison with the US Defense Dept’s Sofwerx etc in developing the AMITT/DISARM disinfo framework currently adopted by our DHS. Pay attention people, because you are going to eventually be aquatinted with the end result Isn’t it also awfully coincidental that a “past” Ministry For Defense woman, involved in the earliest days of disinfo work, hung out with much of the Integrity Initiative at the Disinfo Portal? Recall the Ministry for defense payed the Institute For Statecraft Integrity Initiative. At least 3 of this crew have been linked to Disinfo Portal: 🔹Sara Jayne Terp 🔹Pablo Breuer 🔹Christopher Walker

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🔥🔥🔥 Regime change in the USA linked to & funded by the CIA NED thru the Integrity Initiative, Atlantic Council, & also includes Soros & NATO funding. Watch out for flying CIA, I’ll use this 🎯to mark it in my thred. Remember, the CIA NED ran the orange revolution in the Ukraine. ⚡️Let’s begin with the actual Integrity Initiative partners from their website archives: ♦️The Beacon Project ♦️ Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis (VIPA) ♦️Kremlin Watch ♦️Institute For Statecraft ♦️European Values ♦️Center For European Policy Analysis (CEPA) ♦️CIDOB ♦️Political Capital ♦️Public Opinion Research Unit ♦️Res - Public Affairs Corporate Affairs ♦️Stopfake Partner link: https://archive.is/qX7fm Stopfake link: https://archive.is/OwwEP Integrity Initiative partners via leaks (see photo): ♦️Atlantic Council DFRLAB ♦️Bellingcat ♦️EUVdisinfo (East Stratcom) ♦️Buzzfeed ♦️ Irex ♦️ Detector Media ♦️Lithuania Mod Stratcom ———————————- The Integ Init partner, the Beacon Project: “is only possible though the funding of the NED (CIA 🎯) and support of the International Republican Institute.” https://archive.is/0Qw0A Rep Mike Rogers was on the steering committee for the Beacon Project. https://archive.is/B3QR6 ———————————— Next we have the Vilnius Institute. Partners of the 🎯CIA Ned Funded Beacon Protect: 🎯Vilnius Institute 🎯Res Publica Etc https://archive.is/nJTRv The Vilnius Institute is also sponsored by 👉🏻Soros Open Society and NATO etc (See photo) https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://vilniusinstitute.lt/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/VIPA-Annual-Report-2020.pdf ————————————- The Integrity Initiatives Detector Media is also funded by the 🎯CIA’s NED. “Monitoring is performed (snip) with the financial support of NED. https://web.archive.org/web/20230531220409/https://detector.media/doc/images/news/archive/2016/134198/DM_NED_2017_engl.pdf ———————————— Disinfo Portal is at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center ( DC). The Atlantic Council is funded yearly in part by the 🎯CIA NED. https://web.archive.org/web/20211204223453/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/2020-annual-report-honor-roll-of-contributors/ They have 7 former CIA dir on its own board of dir: 🔹Michael Hayden 🔹James Woolsey 🔹Leon Panetta 🔹David Petraeus 🔹Michael Morrell 🔹William Webster 🔹Robert Gates So I guess this links all of the Disinfo Portal partners to CIA NED too. Atlantic Council Disinfo Portal Partners: 🎯International Forum for Democratic Studies 🎯Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis 🎯 CEPA 🎯European Values 🎯Drog (State Dept GEC partner) 🎯Euvsdisinfo 🎯Stopfake 🎯EU disinfolab 🎯DFRLAB 🎯CEPA 🎯Alliance For Securing Democracy (Hamilton68) 🎯Polygraph 🎯 Henry Jackson Society 🎯 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies 🎯 CEAS (Serbia) 🔹ETC https://web.archive.org/web/20190218145839/https://disinfoportal.org/partners/ And this means that I found another direct 🎯CIA NED org, The International Forum for Democratic Studies. https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NED_FORUM-Shielding-Democracy.pdf Next post we discuss the Atlantic Council Disinfo Portal Experts. There’s also many more direct links to the CIA NED here, I’ll add more later. Notice The Hague Center for Strategic Studies involved? I still think Jack Smith is linked somehow since he’s from, The Hague, and I will find it!

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Part 9 - Now that you have some basics, let’s delve into the earliest days of cognitive security. The main players in this thred here are: 🔸David Perlman 🔸Pablo Breuer 🔸Sara J Terp 🔸Thaddeus Grugq 🔸Rand Waltzman In 2016, David operated CoPsycon and mingled with the US gov and NATO. Later leaving Twitter disgruntled. Later this became CogSecTech. And I have linked, “the main crew” to this. This early history is important for laying the groundwork of even more to come.

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🔥🔥🔥🧵 Part 9 - Bad Kittehs Exposé on the early days of Cognitive Security Post 2016 election the Silicon Valley resistance works with the gov to save democracy “Currently, the largest active attacks are represented by the Brexit campaign and the Trump presidency.” ———————————- 🔹David Perlman & Copsycon Disgruntled by the 2016 election, David Perlman started disinfo work at his Counter psyops consortium (CoPsycon). Which later became CogsecTech. In Feb. 2016, David Perlman worked at Google. But later worked at Twitter Jul 2017 - Jun 2019. Now he’s at Stanford, & also running a carbon credit program plus more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmperlman Since 2017 David has worked with a number of US & NATO defense agencies on understanding & combating information warfare, particularly the role of social networks in influence campaigns. He also ROLE PLAYED as a legitimate employee of a major tech company in Silicon Valley. (This bio was from his Twitter years.) https://archive.is/Znmp1 Copsycon was registered June 17, 2017 but the main players worked together since mid 2016. (See under Cogsectech) ———————————— 🔹David Perlman resists: “We’re all currently in an abusive relationship with a narcissist. We’re all getting f’d over by this one person who exists at the boundary of evil and ill, & the other people who have joined the ranks.” “Maybe you help organize protests, & you stay abreast of breaking news so you know what you need to organize. Or maybe you volunteer with a group of tech activists who are archiving climate science data so it doesn’t get deleted.” “The biggest threat to America is decades of efforts by the GOP to undermine democracy.” “Even if Trump steps down; even if he’s impeached, IMPRISONED, even execut.. (🙀) for treason… Democracy is on life support.” “Recognizing in Trump a profound threat to America & democracy itself. “ “This is war, & for the first time in more than a hundred years, it’s a war for the survival of America.” “Everyone in the Resistance is here.” *Conspirator0 from Netwar Systems is also mentioned. Netwar is linked to the 2nd multi platform suspension in 2016. Read more at this link: https://archive.is/ZlSdv ———————————— 🔹See David of CoPsycon meets the gov evidence, plus more in the next posts. ——————————- 🔹David Perlman & Cogsec Technologies Inc (Cogsectech) “We have been working since mid-2016 on foundational frameworks & software tools.” “David has also led a workshop for NATO officials in London.” https://archive.is/MBnLu At CogsecTech David worked with (see photo): ♦️Sara J Terp (Bodaceacat), Sofwerx, who previously worked at the UK Ministry For Defense and the United Nations. ♦️Thaddeus Grugq (thegrugg), cyberarms broker. ♦️Pablo Bruer (Ngree_HObit), Sofwerx, Innovation Officer Donovan Group, US Special Operations Command. https://archive.is/haoha “MISINFOSEC - Brainchild of CogSec co-founder Sara Jayne Terp She inspired the formation of the Misinfosec Working Group, which built the Adversarial Misinfo and Influence Tactics and Techniques (AMITT) framework, an adaptation of the MITRE ATT&CK security framework.” https://archive.is/utKNs ———————————— 🔹Rand Waltzman is connected to these people. Sept 2015, Rand Waltzman first used the phrase, “Cognitive Security” on the need to create a Center for Cognitive Security. He was later credited for coining the phrase. (Rand works at Rand Corp, Narrative Strategies, & Zignal. He was previously an AI specialist at DARPA.) https://archive.is/mZMAS ♦️Video #1 Evidence starring, David Perlman, where he names his friends & cohorts: 🔹Rand Waltzman - invented Cogsec - cognitive security 🔹Sara Terp- chief science officer of Cogsec - invented the term misinfo security ♦️Video #2 highlights: -World went insane 2016 -Academics re-educated to become data scientists -Nazis running in streets -The Deepstate is real -Submitted DHS proposal -Fake news and Misinfo not a content problem it’s a war Please read the earlier exposé parts too.

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In this video, Alan Sokian interviews Dr. David Perlman, founder and CEO of CogSec Technologies, about misinformation security. Dr. Perlman expresses gratitude to his co-founders and collaborators for their contributions. He mentions Sarah Jane Turp, the chief science officer who coined the term "misinformation security," and Rand Waltzman, who invented cognitive security technology. The interview focuses on the purpose of this creation and the importance of showing gratitude to those who have supported Dr. Perlman.

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Speaker 0: What's up everyone? Welcome to simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sokian. So pumped to be talking about misinformation security. We have doctor David Perlman joining on the on the show. Hi, David. Hi, Alan. Thanks for having me. I'm so pumped for this conversation. Thanks for coming on the program. Speaker 1: I'm pretty pumped too. I love it. Speaker 0: It was so cool meeting you and getting to know you more last Dier and now getting the chance to sit down with you and talk about this very, very pressing field that's emerging. For those who don't know David's background, He's founder and CEO of CogSec Technologies, Cognitive Security Technologies, the first misinformation security vendor protecting socio technical systems of enterprises and you can find the link in the bio below to cogssec. Tech as well as his LinkedIn and the Twitter profile for the company. David, we're so obsessed with this the question. And we start all of our shows with this, so I'm very pumped to ask you it. What do you think is the point of this creation? The point of this Speaker 1: creation. Wow. That is that is a big question. And, you know, I'm gonna buy some time by giving a shout out to to my co founders at the company. And just thanks to all the people who supported me. Sarah Jane Turp is the chief science officer, and she actually invented the term misinformation security as far as I know. And, you know, another friend, Rand Waltzman, invented CogSec, cognitive security technology. So I owe so much to so many people, Bull. And I don't have time to thank everyone, but I just, you know, it's, it's really important to me to show gratitude. And I Speaker 0: want to start with that. It's beautiful. And hopefully, we can, feature some of the brilliant minds that you get to collaborate with and that have been such major influences on you.

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Part 10 introduces you to a history few are aware of for New Knowledge. While relatively new, New Knowledge was given a boost by the United Nations that helped cement their place in the tech world. Many also didn’t know of their work with the State Dept, NSA, and Obama Whitehouse. The most bothersome to me personally was the war room, and their post election activities. This organization has had many name and ownership changes: Popily, Yonder, and now Primer. Two important people in this org were Jonathan Morgan and Renee Diresta. New Knowledge was from Austin Texas.

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🔥 Part 10 - Bad Kitteh Exposé: The early history of New Knowledge that few know. Including: 🔹They advised both the Obama Whitehouse and State Dept. 🔹Their unusual and ALARMING data collection from the 2016 election while advisors. 🔹Ran a 2016 pre election, conservative monitoring, war room. 🔹Were the first, outside the IC, to claim Russian interference in the 2016 election. Starting in 2015, Renee Diresta & Jonathan Morgan of New Knowledge (aka Popily, Yonder, & Primer) were both involved with the United Nations, State Dept, & Obama WhiteHouse. The earliest official mention of Russia disinfo by them was in Oct 2015 by Renee Diresta to the Obama Whitehouse. After the 2016 election, Renee said, “now I’m going to pay more attention!” (to Russia) New Knowledges claim to fame is being the FIRST to identify 2016 Russian election interference. Renee & Jonathan Morgan met up at the Obama Whitehouse in Feb 2016. Although they first met earlier. 🔥After the 2016 election, their Data For Democracy harvested all of the United States voter information FROM THE SECRETARIES OF STATE! Thats a huge task too! What did they do with all this massive data? They worked for the Obama Whitehouse, was this even kosher to do?🔥 Renee Diresta & Jonathan Morgan also operated an 2016 election disinfo war room that concentrated on conservative fake news. Once again, let me remind you that they were advisors to the Obama Whitehouse. After the 2016 election, Jonathan Morgan was even invited to the Whitehouse to do a podcast with Obama’s Chief Science Officer. ♦️New Knowledge was founded in May 2015 in Austin, TX by Jonathon Morgan, a former adviser at the US Dept of State, NATO, & was a propaganda researcher at DARPA. ♦️Months later New Knowledge joined up with the Sustainable UN. (See linked video and thread.) ♦️Renee Diresta: “Late 2015, the problem of ISIS on Twitter had gotten to be incredibly large, & I connected with a data scientist named Jonathon Morgan.” “In late October 2015 & early 2016, gov acknowledge that social network manipulation was a real problem.” “Russia was part of the conversation in the WHITE HOUSE AND in the STATE DEPT advising I was doing in Oct 2015.” “Going back to Oct 2015, there was information sharing between the State Dept, the White House & companies like Facebook about thinking about the vulnerabilities of their system to foreign actors looking to spread misinfo or disinfo.” “Russia was brought up by other people in the gov who were concerned about the potential for manipulation.” “I did sit down with Twitter. Twitter was really much more concerned about harassment than disinfo & manipulation. “ (After the election - on Russia.) “I thought, now we're going to start to pay a lot more attention to this problem.” ♦️New Knowledge: “We were the first org outside the US intel community to identify Russia’s campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election.” ♦️The Obama admin, reached out to Renee Diresta in 2015 Renee Diresta claims she first met Jonathan Morgan at a White House tech meeting in Feb 2016. (Conflicts with PBS article date of late 2015.) Senate & House staff members, who knew of DiResta’s expertise through her public reports & her previous work ADVISING THE OBAMA ADMIN on disinfo campaigns, had reached out to her & others to help them prepare for the hearings. ♦️In 2016, they monitored thousands of Twitter accounts that suddenly started using bots, or automated accounts, to spread salacious stories about the Clinton family. They watched as multiple Facebook pages, appearing out of nowhere, organized to simultaneously create anti-immigrant events. When I put it all together & started mapping it out, I saw how big the scale of it was,” said Jonathan Albright, who met DiResta through Twitter. Albright published a widely read report that mapped, for the first time, connections between conservative sites putting out fake news. To be continued in the next post, many sources to follow.

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Part 11 is an excellent recollection by New Knowledge’s, Renee Diresta, of the after effects of the 2016 election. Tech world was not amused. Here Renee admitted to building a disinformation machine as a result of the 2016 election. Q: “So essentially, are you guys building a disinformation machine?” A: Renee Diresta - “That's a good way to put it, yeah.” The State Department Global Engagement Center was created as a result of the 2016 election. “ So we were advocating for a couple of really basic things: One, create a task force or a center in government that's responsible for monitoring this and ultimately became the Global Engagement Center, which exists.” It also seems Russia discussions started in the Whitehouse in October 2015. “Russia was part of the conversation in the White House and in the State Department advising I was doing in October 2015” Read more inside, there’s multiple posts and you shouldn’t miss any!

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🔥Exposé Part 11 - Bad Kitteh with the night conservatives lost their voice. Being compared to ISIS and must be stopped! 💥After the 2016 election, Silicon Valley cried out, “What did we build, what did we build?”💥 What happened to conservatives next was the result of Silicon Valley’s, “terror”, of facing 4 years of Trump. The State Department Global Engagement Center was created as a result of the 2016 election. And also in mid 2016, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism was used for multi-platform actions. Remember that’s when multi platform suspensions started? 🧐 Questions & Answers with Renee Diresta of New Knowledge aka Popily, Primer & Yonder, on the building of a disinfo machine & their recounting of a Silicon Valley reckoning. Here’s some short highlights before we get into the best parts of the interview in detail. ♦️“I would say election 2016 was where it became—that was when everyone came out of the woodwork, right?” “That was where the engineers themselves, talking very publicly on Twitter that night as the data was coming in, [were] saying, as the election results are coming in, saying: “What did we build? What did we build?" ♦️“The results came in, and yes, some of it was absolutely partisan handwringing over the fact that Trump had won.” ♦️“Would we have had a different outcome if we had been more proactive at shutting down the fake news & the conspiratorial partisan content?” ♦️“Right after the election, Mark Zuckerberg says, “It's crazy,” right? I mean, there's the kind of famous “crazy” moment about [whether] misinfo or fake news played any role in this at all.” ——————————— 🔹Question: So essentially, are you guys building a disinformation machine? Answer: “That's a good way to put it, yeah.” 🔹Question: What were you recommending at the time? What were you advising the State Department or the platforms to do about this problem at the time? Answer: “We were trying to say that there should be better channels of communication, for starters, trying to say that information sharing about these things needed to be more robust. It was hard. You know, there was a lot of distrust between the government and tech, between people and the government. This was after [Edward] Snowden, right after the Snowden revelations. The tech companies really didn't want to be seen as cooperating with the government. So we were advocating for a couple of really basic things: One, create a task force or a center in government that's responsible for monitoring this and ultimately became the Global Engagement Center, which exists. It's focused on terrorist propaganda but has also recently had its mandate expanded to foreign propaganda in general as a result of what we saw with Russia, the idea that at least if we had a kind of a government center in charge of thinking about what the government's response was going to be, or detecting threats that would be a good starting point.” “The platforms—in mid-2016, I think it was; you might want to check this; it might be in 2017—created what was called the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and that Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism was an effort where they would share information with each other, so when terrorist content appeared on Facebook, Facebook would make that content available to YouTube and Twitter so they could block it also. That was a really positive response. That was the kind of thing that we were advocating for, like there must be information sharing. We've got to treat this almost like we treated spam, where the platforms came together to think about ways to deal with the spam issue. It was somewhat remarkable that we do have these instances of cooperation in the past to deprecate the impact of bad actors, but it took so long to get us there on terrorism. That was a real surprise.” 🔸Somehow I’m out of space? Keep reading folks! We will also review the actions of another person associated with this crew. https://archive.is/QLvga

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Part 12-A Bad Kitteh Exposé Contrary to what many people think, the coup upon Trump began within days of him announcing his run in June, 2015. In fact the first propaganda about Trump began within 24 hours of him announcing, and originated from Moveon. We had Google Lab partnering with Hacks/Hackers, and even seeding the First Draft News Coalition. First Draft News concentrated on disinformation. The integrity initiative website went live at the same time to fight, “Russian” disinfo. First it worked during Brexit and then for the Trump Campaign. The Integrity Initiative even infiltrated US election campaigns. First Draft News and Integrity Initiative linked orgs worked together from the get go. And one of its founder orgs, Storyful, even had a Director that founded the 77th psyop brigade. The director of First Draft News sat on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Information and Entertainment. Interestingly, Google is partnered with the World Economic Forum, who also later independently inserted itself into the disinfo racket.

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🚨🚨🚨Part 12-A of the Bad Kitty exposé gets to the roots of the disinfo apparatus! My most important release yet! The World Economic Forum partnered GOOGLE, is where most disinfo work originates! Just yesterday I exposed the Google partnered WEF gathering up & organizing disinfo orgs in 2018. Also see my linked post for some of Googles massive involvement in disinfo work! There’re also multiple other orgs involved. One is the Soros partnered Arizona State University (ASU). Also, recall my previous connecting of First Draft News (Google News Lab seed funded) to Integrity Initiative partnered orgs. Also recall how I connected my main Exposé orgs & people to the CIA & Integrity Initiative orgs too. There will be more on this later. Looking back at Trump riding down the escalator, look at these dates: 🔹June 16, 2015 Trump announces running 🔹June 18, 2015 First Draft Coalition Announces their new org. (funded by Google News Lab) 🔹June 22, 2015 Google News Lab Announced by Google 🔹June 22, 2015 Google News Lab & Hacks/Hackers partnership announced by Google 🔹June 22, 2015 Google News Lab & First Draft News partnership announced by Google. 🔹June 22, 2015 Integrity Initiative domain registered The most important are above but add these two: 🔹Sept of 2015 Sofwerx created 🔹Sept 16, 2015 the Global Cyber Alliance was formed What do all our earliest & later disinfo orgs have in common? Google! Google partnered Hacks/Hackers is part of the CTI Leagues, Reality Team. Now recall this story: “Feds Pay Journo Group called Hacks/Hackers $5M To Create Software To Turn People Into Anti Misinfo Bots” Here’s some more GOOGLE partnered Hacks/Hackers facts: -H/H got a grant from CIA linked Mozilla for misinfo work -H/H & Meedan founded the Credibility Coalition -H/H sponsored the first Misinfocon where the WEF partnerd Credibility Coalition was incubated -Credibility Coalition Partners with GOOGLE JIGSAW “Jigsaw is a unit within Google that explores threats to OPEN SOCIETIES” Google also runs an annual event called Newsgeist used to incubate new programs. Of course the 2017 one I examined, had Claire Wardle of First Draft News & Crovitz of Newsguard there. Misinfocon, born out of Google & Knight Fndn Newsgeist 2017 was yet another incubator. And like I said, sponsored by Google partnered First Draft News, Nieman, & Hacks/Hackers. The first MisinfoCon is where the Credibility coalition was incubated by Google partnered Hacks/Hackers. Credibility Coalition announced it received generous grants from Google News Lab, Facebook Journalism Project, & Craig Newmark Philanthropies etc. “We’re thrilled to see industry & philanthropic partners join in on the momentum of our cross-disciplinary grassroots initiative BORN OUT OF A MISINFOCON EVENT in February 2017,” noted Jennifer 8. Lee, a journalist & technologist from Hacks/Hackers, which also organizes MisinfoCon.” Jennifer 8 Lee of the WEF, & Beijing University & Google partnered Hacks and Hackers, cofounded Newsgeist, MisinfoCon, & the Credibility Coalition. Google Newsgeist was held at ASU Walter Cronkite school of journalism. ASU is the only USA University in the Soros Open Society University Network. And its president, Michael Crow, serves as a Chairman of the CIA’s In-Q-Tel. Google News Lab University Network formed Dec 2016 with 49 universities & ASU as the pilot. We will discuss ASU more in a later exposé part. The below people worked with the WEF & many Google linked orgs & events, such as Newsgeist, Hacks/Hackers, Misinfocon, & the Credibility Coalition (funded by VOA, WEF, CIA NED, & more!): 🔸Jennifer 8 Lee - Google/Knight Fndn Newsgeist, Hacks/Hackers, Misinfocon, Credibility Coalition 🔸Connie Moon Sehat - Hacks/hackers, credibility coalition, Meedan 🔸Claire Wardle - First Draft News, Misinfocon 🔸Nevin Thompson - Credibility coalition lead 🔸Ahmed Medien - Project Manager, Hacks/Hackers 🔸Amy Zhang - Credibility Coalition To be continued - long 👇🏻

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Part 12-B Bad Kitty Exposé In March 2018, the World Economic Forum convened a meeting of the minds with a very large consortium of disinfo groups. Essentially to take stock of where they all sat and how it could be improved upon. The entire disinfo network is massive and funded heavily by the left. The Knight Foundation, Soros Open Society, Craig Newmark, and many others started early on. The Google Partnered Knight Foundation and Craig Newmark actually even funded the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP)!

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🔥🔥🔥 Breaking Bad Kitty exposé Part 12-B supplemental. I’ve had a missing link all along, and it’s a WHOPPER! In March 2018, the World Economic Forum, gathered a project and meeting with government officials, advertising industry, and key censorship orgs to take stock of what was needed to combat disinfo. First Draft News, Data and Society and so much more were involved! The project itself was being handled by the Tow Knight center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY). Ol Craig Newmark never gets enough attention. He’s involved in funding and/or participation in a large majority of the earliest disinformation work. Including the: 🔹Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) 🔹Global Cyber Alliance 🔹First Draft News - It was moved from Harvard to the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY 🔹Trust Project 🔹Misinfocon 🔹World Economic Forum 🔹Credibility Coalition 🔹Reality Team (CTI League) 🔹Disarm Foundation (AMITT/Disarm framework) 🔹INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR PUBLIC INTEREST MEDIA (Biden admin global news takeover org) 🔹Aspen Cyber Security Group 🔹Brennan Center 🔹Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative 🔹 Carnegie Endowments Partnership for Countering Influence Operations 🔹Plus tons more! “The World Economic Forum, and underwritten by Craig Newmark, convened a meeting in San Francisco in March 2018. This brought together many of the independent efforts to rate quality in news — including the: 🔹TRUST PROJECT 🔹CREDIBILITY COALITION 🔹Reporters Without Borders 🔹Internews 🔹Storyful - Global Managing Dir founded 77th psyops brigade - one of a handful of founding First Draft orgs 🔹Open Brand Safety 🔹W3C 🔹and others With representatives from the major technology companies, the ad industry, the academe, and GOVERNMENT to take stock of the overall effort to combat disinformation and support quality, determining what is needed.” “We hope to work with a variety of fact-checkers, including Politifact, Poynter, and Duke to gather behavioral signals for this project.” “Certain signals across this project will be considered non-starters, or those that will automatically consider a site to be of poor quality despite other factors of the site. These signals will include, but not be limited to, knowingly spreading disinfo, promoting conspiracy theories, and creating false news. These signals will not only come from fact-checkers, but also through Data & Society’s and First Draft’s antimanipulation campaigns.” This meeting was the same month and year that Newsguard was “officially” announced. Recall Newsguard and Google are both partnered with the above mentioned Trust project that was part of this WEF Project. They even mentioned Newsguard in the article. “The meeting identified five ongoing needs, summarized here: ♦️Work together on a common data model to facilitate sharing of signals. ♦️Continue convening the coalition of initiatives working on the problem of trust and credibility in news. ♦️Encourage platforms and others to share data with researchers to inform this work. ♦️Support networks to share alerts about targeted campaigns of disinformation. ♦️Investigate opportunities to use blockchain to enable this work.” Part 12-A will be coming out later today. This was just a supplement so yeah it’s gonna be pretty big! The main links will follow now. But Craig Newmark funding will be much later. It’s a heck of a job, but I have everything I mentioned here, and likely much more. @elonmusk here’s additional WEF and Newsguard links. This is gonna be a whole lot worse than just the WEF.

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Part 13 Bad Kitty Exposé This part is relatively short and concentrated on a single WHO document prepared by the CTI League folks. The biggest news here is that the World Health Organization (WHO) embedded people at the CTI League! What this means is that the WHO was working with anti conservative (coming up in later parts) and gov linked influence operations to control Covid messaging.

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🔥🔥Part 13 Bad Kitty Exposé! Boom! The World Health Organization (WHO) was actively involved in Covid vaccine disinformation work at CTI League. The CTI League is where they ran Psyops on innocent citizens! A document compiled by Sara Jayne Terp, of the CTI League files, worthy of a part of its own! Here she exposes the massive, and worldwide, disinfo network along with some unexpected twists. Highlights? 🔸The World Health Organization (WHO) embedded people at the CTI League! 🔸The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) was funded by Craig Newmark and Knight Foundation! (Besides the Omidyar Democracy Fund Funding I already exposed. Democracy Fund is part of the Soros Democracy Alliance.) 🔸They have a Security Operations Center with graded network tiers. 🔸Bot Sentinel (Chris Bouzy) is a part of the disinfo network. 🔸Wikipedia has a disinfo team? This document was compiled by request from, Rakesh Bharania, the director of humanitarian impact data at Salesforce for the World Health Organization (WHO) disinfo use. He participated in the WHO Tech Task Force since March 2020. Salesforce was part of a WHO subgroup working on vaccines. Salesforce is partnered with the World Economic Forum, the Global Cyber Alliance, and Zignal. Links to follow!

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Part 14 Bad Kitty Exposé Kate Starbird of the, Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), was involved in work for a grant which was for the Hacks/Hackers organization. Recall Hacks/Hackers was partnered with Google Lab who organized the first major censorship ever. Hacks/Hackers was also a part of the CTI League Reality Team that worked on social media to control narratives. Amy X Zhang, of Hacks/Hackers was involved in the above grant along with Kate Starbird. Amy Zhang was also involved in a second grant called Wisdex that DIRECTLY involved the EIP. Zhang is from the Washington University Center For Informed people (CIP). The same center that was part of the EIP, and is where Katie Starbird also worked. There is also a World Economic Forum group called the Global Coalition For Digital Safety. Many involved in the CTI League Files were involved in this. Also involved with this WEF coalition was the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center. The same center that housed Sara Terp and Pablo Breuer of the CTI League files.

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🏆 Breaking! Part 14 of the Bad Kitty exposé! The confusing entanglements of the DHS CISA Election Integrity Partnerships (EIP) personnel, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Coalition For Digital Safety, Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, and the CTI League Files. Recall I already connected the CTI League file crew to a World Economic Forum 2018 program. I also connected, Katie Starbird of the EIP, to the CTI League partnered Hacks/Hackers too. I’ll attach both of those below. This newly found WEF program, the Global Coalition For Digital Safety, is headed by David Bray from the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center. The same center that housed Sara Terp and Pablo Breuer of the CTI League files. (See photos) Amy X Zhang, of the WEF Global Coalition For Digital Safety (see photo), is from the Washington University Center For Informed people (CIP). The same center that ran the EIP, and is where Katie Starbird worked. Amy Zhang also worked on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator project called Wisedex. Wisedex worked with the EIP. “The Election Integrity Partnership (Washington and Stanford) will provide a data stream (to Wisedex) of misleading content related to the 2022 U.S. elections that will serve as one source of claims to profile. (See photo) Also listed in the same NSF doc is mention of the ARTT 2 convergence accelerator. The same Hacks/Hackers one that Amy Zhang, Connie Moon Sehat, Tanushree Mitra, and Kate Starbird worked together on. An amazing find here 👇🏻 ❤️‍🔥 The World Economic Forum Global Coalition For Digital Safety even thanked Hacks/Hackers for their support. ❤️‍🔥 “We thank HACKS/HACKERS and Craig Newmark Philanthropies for their support of the Global Coalition for Digital Safety.” So a U.S. government grant funded org (hacks/hackers) was thanked for their support by the WEF? This would include Katie Starbird then, true? Hack/Hackers was also partnered with Google News lab, one of the earliest disinfo orgs. Also note that Hacks/Hackers and Meedan founded the Credibility Coalition. And Hacks/Hackers works on Reality Team and is partnered with the CTI League, Credibility Coalition, and the Cogsec Collaborative, plus more. Amy Zhang is also from the WEF partnered Credabilty Coalition, Hacks/Hackers, Harvard Berkman Klein, and MIT. Additional people listed on the WEF Global Coalition For Digital Safety doc: ☢️Connie Moon Sehat, Hack Hackers phase 2 of ARTT, WEF partnered Credibility Coalition, Meedan, and is a Senior Project Fellow, World Economic Forum. ☢️Jennifer 8 Lee, Hack/Hackers board member, co-founder Misinfocon, Founder Google/Knight Fndn Newsgeist, co-founder Credibility Coalition, Co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Sport ☢️Daphne Keller, Director of Stanford Program on Platform Regulation, Cyber Policy Center Lecturer, Stanford Law School ☢️Ahmed Medien, Project Manager, Hacks/Hackers, Misinfocon organizer, Credibility Coalition, Project Fellow World Economic Forum Media Entertainment and Sport ☢️Tanushree Mitra, Hack/Hackers phase 2 of ARTT, credibility coalition, Assistant Professor, University Washington *Note, their orgs listed may not be all inclusive. **I just found something that indicates interoperability of Hacks/Hackers and Credibility Coalition. An email list request for Credibility Coalition to send help requests to either of two Hacks/Hackers individuals. Sources and referenced posts to follow. This certainly calls for a congressional investigation. @Weaponization

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Part 15 Bad Kitty Exposé This part discusses the first ever Misinfocon held not long after Trumps inauguration. The Credibility Coalition was created during this event. Interestingly, Project Candelabra, was also conceived during this event by Dean Jackson of the CIA NED. Just recently I realized that Dean Jackson was also involved at the Atlantic Council Disinfo Portal. There he shared space with NED involved Ukraine and Serbian regime change orgs, the NED itself, many CTI League Files folks, the Alliance For Securing Democracy aka Hamilton68, Integrity Initiative partnered orgs, and many Integrity Initiative linked people. Dean was even an analyst on the Jan 6 committee.

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🔥Bad Kitteh exposé part 15 on the censorship complex now known as the CTI League Files. Introduction to MisinfoCon. Do you really want to see who’s responsible for censorship? Then pay attention! What is Misinfocon, why is it so important, what’s its connections to Google and the Knight Fndn, what’s it’s connections to Kate Starbird, and what happened at its first meeting? ♦️Approximately a month after Trumps inauguration, the first Misinfocon was held. An event for brainstorming on new disinfo procedures and creating new disinfo orgs. Twenty projects emerged from this event including the creation of the Credibility Coalition org. ♦️Recall Kate Starbird belongs to Hack/Hackers and was part of the ARTT 2 GOVERNMENT FUNDED program. ♦️Jennifer 8. Lee, Hacks/Hackers board member on ARTT 2 admitting this government funded org was made possible by MisinfoCon: “It is rewarding to see the conversations around credibility and communication online that were first sparked at our first MisinfoCon at MIT in 2017 blossom into a project of this scope, and with such potentially practical benefits for society. As an incubator for projects that bring together interdisciplinary teams of journalists, researchers, technologists, and policymakers, Hacks/Hackers is excited to continue to help take people’s ideas into the real world.” ♦️This Credibility Coalition comes from the following organizations: -AAAS -AppNexus (Sara Terp) -Associated Press -Berkeley Institute for Data Science -Climate Feedback -Data & Society -Data for Democracy (New Knowledge) -Factmata (Listed in the Expose Network leaks aka the Integrity Initiative) -Global Voices -GoodlyLabs -Hypothesis -Snopes -New York Times -MIT CSAIL -University of Michigan’s Center for Social Media Responsibility. This Credibility Coalition and also Kate Starbird are important and we will review them more later. Including breaking info on the Starry Bird! 🥴😬 ♦️The idea for Misinfocon was conceived at the 2016 Google and Knight Fndn Newsgeist. This was held at Soros Open Society partnered, Arizona State Universities, Walter Cronkite school of Journalism. See attached thread. ♦️This first Misinfocon multi day event was Feb 24-26, 2017 and was held at MIT, and Harvard Nieman labs. This was hosted by First Draft News, Hacks/Hackers, and Nieman Labs. The first MisinfoCon is possible through the generous support of Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, Mozilla, Knight Foundation, Center for Civic Media, and Alley Interactive. ♦️Noteworthy people there: -Dean Jackson, a researcher at the CIA NED Dean was also an analyst on the Select Committee to Investigate January 6th -Claire Wardle from First Draft News and of the World Economic Forum, a past head of social media for the United Nations, and previous Director of News Services for Storyful. (Global Managing Dir of Storyful Intel, the News Corp digital intel co., was ALASTAIR AITKEN. He founded the 77th brigade psyop unit and was in the Integrity Initiative.) -Julia Haslanger of Hearken, which created Zuckerbucks CTCL -Mark Little – Founder of Storyful now acquired by NewsCorp. Storyful was a founding organization of the earlier First Draft Coalition. Important Misinfocon member names out of a long list are: ♦️Jennifer 8 Lee (WEF linked) ♦️Renee Diresta (resistance) ♦️Amy X Zheng (WEF linked) The people who organized this first Misinfocon event were Ahmed Medien and Jennifer 8 Lee of Hacks/Hackers. Photo 1- Slide deck - Early planning in Feb 2017 to disqualify sites for advertising dollars. Recall that a Newsguard founder was at Newsgeist that founded Misinfocon Photo 2 - Newsguard listed in a Credibility Coalition doc. Photo 3 - from slide deck. Oh nos we gotta get into schools to brainwash kids thru news. Photo 4 - Slidedeck - Orange man bad All sources to follow.

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Posted - August 25, 2023 at 11:16 AM

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The Intel community infiltrated and subverted the election system, openly visible through open source research. NED ensured Trump's loss in 2020. Mollie Ball's Time piece reveals numerous democracy-named groups involved. Trump attempted NED reform in 2018. William Blum's overview sheds light on NED's role. Ignatius' '91 article and a recent one by Caity Johnston provide further insights. MikeBenzCyber's interview uncovers motives behind post-2016 US political events.

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The Intel community has been unleashed on the American people! Actively infiltrating and subverting the election system. It's all out in open, very public, and easy to see using open source research. NED was tapped to make sure Trump lost 2020 in my opinion. 1/7🧵

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Mollie Ball Time piece in screenshots above. It's worth your time. Notice the names, remember the names! Notice how many groups involved have "democracy" in the name. 2/7🧵 https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election The extraordinary effort was dedicated to ensuring the election would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. Here's how it was done time.com

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Trump tried to reform NED in 2018 3/7

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Good overview of NED here. 4/7 https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy

Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy – William Blum How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under Pres... williamblum.org

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The great Ignatius 🙄 authored this one in 91'. 5/7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/

INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE NEW WORLD OF SPYLESS COUPS washingtonpost.com

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Great article here that is more current. 6/7 https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/so-much-of-what-the-cia-used-to-do-covertly-it-now-does-overtly-f8292cb9a415

So Much Of What The CIA Used To Do Covertly It Now Does Overtly In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he’d start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He… caityjohnstone.medium.com

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@MikeBenzCyber is a wealth of knowledge on the Censorship Industry and some of the role of State Dept. Here is a interview he done that outlines some of the motives for what has taken place since 2016 in US politics. Long but worth your time. 7/7 https://youtu.be/NGTDBzUDKIk?si=rg6g0e377UHDaw7f

@pepesgrandma — Bad Kitty, Censored By X🦁🤐

Posted - November 25, 2023 at 1:38 PM

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reSee.it AI Summary

The Lithuanian elves, utilized by the US State Department GEC, are advanced tools. The Integrity Initiative infiltrated the US via Todd Levanthal. The State Department admitted to using these elves. They work on disinfo detection, attacking conservatives and journalists. Our State Department, including USAID, must be stopped. They continue this global disinfo work. The USA is causing the end of the world.

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You know folks, the Lithuanian elves, utilized by our state Department GEC, is some advanced stuff. The Integrity Initiative infiltrated the USA thru our state dept via Todd Levanthal. And our state dept admitted to using Lithuanian elves. Everything you see today with disinfo work came from this partnership. Lt (Lithuania) Mod Stratcom is essentially the Debunk EU that you see in the State Dept GEC email.. The Lithuanian elves is a multi prong effort that works on “Russian” disinfo detection, Twitter trolls etc to attack conservatives, and journalists. Once you understand this, I can move on. And also, our State Department including USAID, must be stopped! They are continuing this disinfo work globally. The USA is causing the end of the world as we know it.

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Posted - December 1, 2023 at 8:00 PM

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The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with various organizations and government officials, initiated a project in 2018 to combat disinformation. Craig Newmark played a significant role in funding and participating in disinformation work. The project aimed to rate news quality and involved major technology companies, academia, and the advertising industry. Fact-checkers like Politifact and Poynter were involved, along with organizations like the Trust Project and Credibility Coalition. The project identified the need for a common data model, collaboration among initiatives, data sharing, alert networks against disinformation campaigns, and exploring the use of blockchain. Microsoft, Newsguard, and Internews were also part of this effort. Additionally, the Media Viability Accelerator, supported by Microsoft, USAID, and Internews, aimed to promote high-quality local news and reduce the impact of disinformation. The initiative aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and focused on promoting transparency, campaign finance reform, and voting rights. The Media Viability Accelerator was presented at Biden's Global Summit for Democracy, and its partnership with Microsoft and Internews aimed to preserve fact-based news and support financially sustainable media outlets. The Credibility Coalition assisted the World Economic Forum in managing the project. Trust Metrics, a company that rates news sites, was hired to aggregate signals. The article provides links and videos for further information.

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🔥🔥🔥 Breaking Bad Kitty exposé Part 12-B supplemental. I’ve had a missing link all along, and it’s a WHOPPER! In March 2018, the World Economic Forum, gathered a project and meeting with government officials, advertising industry, and key censorship orgs to take stock of what was needed to combat disinfo. First Draft News, Data and Society and so much more were involved! The project itself was being handled by the Tow Knight center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY). Ol Craig Newmark never gets enough attention. He’s involved in funding and/or participation in a large majority of the earliest disinformation work. Including the: 🔹Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) 🔹Global Cyber Alliance 🔹First Draft News - It was moved from Harvard to the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY 🔹Trust Project 🔹Misinfocon 🔹World Economic Forum 🔹Credibility Coalition 🔹Reality Team (CTI League) 🔹Disarm Foundation (AMITT/Disarm framework) 🔹INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR PUBLIC INTEREST MEDIA (Biden admin global news takeover org) 🔹Aspen Cyber Security Group 🔹Brennan Center 🔹Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative 🔹 Carnegie Endowments Partnership for Countering Influence Operations 🔹Plus tons more! “The World Economic Forum, and underwritten by Craig Newmark, convened a meeting in San Francisco in March 2018. This brought together many of the independent efforts to rate quality in news — including the: 🔹TRUST PROJECT 🔹CREDIBILITY COALITION 🔹Reporters Without Borders 🔹Internews 🔹Storyful - Global Managing Dir founded 77th psyops brigade - one of a handful of founding First Draft orgs 🔹Open Brand Safety 🔹W3C 🔹and others With representatives from the major technology companies, the ad industry, the academe, and GOVERNMENT to take stock of the overall effort to combat disinformation and support quality, determining what is needed.” “We hope to work with a variety of fact-checkers, including Politifact, Poynter, and Duke to gather behavioral signals for this project.” “Certain signals across this project will be considered non-starters, or those that will automatically consider a site to be of poor quality despite other factors of the site. These signals will include, but not be limited to, knowingly spreading disinfo, promoting conspiracy theories, and creating false news. These signals will not only come from fact-checkers, but also through Data & Society’s and First Draft’s antimanipulation campaigns.” This meeting was the same month and year that Newsguard was “officially” announced. Recall Newsguard and Google are both partnered with the above mentioned Trust project that was part of this WEF Project. They even mentioned Newsguard in the article. “The meeting identified five ongoing needs, summarized here: ♦️Work together on a common data model to facilitate sharing of signals. ♦️Continue convening the coalition of initiatives working on the problem of trust and credibility in news. ♦️Encourage platforms and others to share data with researchers to inform this work. ♦️Support networks to share alerts about targeted campaigns of disinformation. ♦️Investigate opportunities to use blockchain to enable this work.” Part 12-A will be coming out later today. This was just a supplement so yeah it’s gonna be pretty big! The main links will follow now. But Craig Newmark funding will be much later. It’s a heck of a job, but I have everything I mentioned here, and likely much more. @elonmusk here’s additional WEF and Newsguard links. This is gonna be a whole lot worse than just the WEF.

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Before I move on with links, I want to point out that the World Economic Forum Partnered Internews, is involved with Microsoft and the Biden admin (USAID) in a Media Viability Accelerator. Newsguard is involved with this too. This Media Viability Accelerator is part of Bidens Global Summit to control the worldwide news and internet. I’ve reported on this before. This link connects the World Economic Forum to an Internews partnership. And the link is also a secondary mention of the Craig Newmark and World Economic Forum program mentioned in the top post. The main link and article on this will follow. “Taking on fake news: A new joint venture funded by the Craig Newmark Foundation in collaboration with the World Economic Forum was launched. Bringing internet platform giants together with multistakeholder leaders, the initiative will be developed further through 2018. Meanwhile, a joint venture launched by Internews in collaboration with the Forum aimed to promote high-quality local news and information.” https://archive.is/SVzwA Below is more information on Internews and the Media Viability Accelerator. Plus a whole lot more! 👇🏻

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🔥🔥Breaking video! Samantha Power admits that Microsoft is a major Biden admin partner that steps up to the plate every time they are asked. Even better? Newsguard, is in a partnership with the State Dept’s USAID and Microsoft! Microsoft’s first partnership with Newsguard began in Aug 2018 and was called Defending Democracy. There’s a SECOND Newsguard and Microsoft partnership called Democracy Forward. “DEMOCRACY FORWARD: THE MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP EXPANSION This year, Microsoft expanded its partnership with NewsGuard with a three-year agreement.” “We believe that this agreement will help us to contribute with impact and scale to efforts to increase societal resilience against disinfo," said Kate O'Sullivan, General Manager of Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft, and a member of NewsGuard's global advisory board. "Countering disinformation through technology is a key pillar of Microsoft's Democracy Forward Program.” Well guess what? The Democracy Forward program that Newsguard is in, is partnered with the USAID Media Viability Accelerator! What a combo 👇🏻 “The Democracy Forward Initiative focuses on promoting public transparency, campaign finance reform, and voting rights.” Microsoft’s aim is to promote the UN Sustainably Development Goals (SDG). “What we need for a democratic society is facts.” “It all accrues to SDG 16 on promoting peace, justice, and strong institutions; one of which is journalism.” "Journalism can promote the stories of underrepresented communities and help bridge divides. That supports SDG 5 on gender equality & SDG 10 on reducing inequalities,” This most recent USAID and MS partnership relates to the Media Viability Accelerator (global) that is discussed in this video. The Media Viability Accelerator was actually presented by Biden at his Global Summit For Democracy in Dec 2021. Senate doc: “Working with Congress to provide up to $30 million to the International Fund for Public Interest Media & launching a Media Viability Accelerator to expand access to high-quality local independent media and reduce the impact of disinfo.” The Media Viability Accelerator idea sort of malingered until @Elonmusk acquired Twitter and it was rejuvenated in Feb 2023. Coincidence? The video here is from the Global Democracy Coalition who does the planning for the Biden Global Democracy Summits with one just held in March 2023 with new attention on the Media Viability Accelerator. The Biden admin asked Microsoft to partner for this program. Internews is a major partner too. “The Media Viability Accelerator is a new collaborative USAID, Microsoft, and Internews tool to preserve FACT-BASED news and information media while ensuring that media outlets can survive, thrive, adapt, and grow as businesses.” About Internews: “We train journalists and digital rights activists, tackle disinfo, & offer business expertise to help media outlets become financially sustainable.” There’s also 5 others that joined this project: 🔸Free Press Unlimited 🔸Global Forum for Media Development 🔸IREX (Was in Integrity Initiative leaks) 🔸SembraMedia 🔸Thomson Reuters Foundation (In Zinc Network Leaks - is connected to integrity initiative) This video was a made by the Global Democracy Coalition in preparation for Bidens Global Democracy Summit with Samantha Powers as a speaker. ❗️Note - Norm Eisen of Brookings works at the Global Democracy Coalition! Video short 1 - Samantha Power of State Dept USAID - Talking to Microsoft’s Brad Smith on how MS will step up and partner with them anytime the Biden admin asks them. (Just as they did for the Media viability Accelerator.) Video short 2 - Samantha Power - Media extinction event due to social media etc. USAID is working globally to fund certain media outlets to counteract misinfo. Video 3 - Entire beginning segment by Samantha Power if interested. There’s a full length video with other speakers too. I’ll link everything including videos and transcripts down below.

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I am grateful to Brad and Microsoft for their support. When we have ideas to make a positive impact, Microsoft is enthusiastic to partner with us. This mindset exists in other companies too, rooted in the recognition of the business case for various causes like economic development, digitization, climate change adaptation, and strengthening democracy. Companies like Microsoft have a powerful voice and can make a difference. It's not just about preaching to the choir, but about showing up and taking action in the private sector. I am incredibly grateful for their support.

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Speaker 0: I, I could not be more grateful, to to Brad and to Microsoft, not only on this initiative, but basically, my experience in this job is that when we have an idea for how to do something in the world that is going to make an impact that we call Microsoft, there is a lot of enthusiasm to partner. And what's great is not only is that a kind of philanthropic in, you know, citizenly, mindset that exists, there and at at other companies as well. But it's rooted in the recognition that Brad just articulated so forcefully, which is the business case for economic development or digitization or climate change adaptation or here the strengthening of democracy. And that, it's that voice also, and that catalytic power that companies like Microsoft have, that matters so much. So it's not just, Judy, people like you and me, preaching to the choir, on the importance of independent media, but it's actually saying, hey, look, we in the private sector, we have an interest in showing up, in material ways. And so I I just I'm incredibly grateful for that.

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Independent media is facing challenges due to digital platforms like Facebook and Google capturing a significant portion of advertising and subscription revenue. This has led to a decline in revenue for news feeds and TV newscasts in the US. The lack of access to local news has created information deserts, particularly in vulnerable countries where USAID works. To address this, USA launched the Media M initiative in Moldova, aiming to combat misinformation by working with local media outlets to develop a membership system and improve marketing strategies. This initiative is part of the viability accelerator, which seeks sustainable business models for independent and local media worldwide.

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Speaker 0: Independent media, of course, has long been talked about as a public good, and it's really only what some are calling a media extinction event that is upon us that is drawing more public sector and private sector attention, to the need for sustainable business models, for independent media all around the world and local media. Because what you now have is digital platforms, which I'll say a sec and talk a little bit more about in a second, entertainment platforms capturing more and more of the advertising and subscription revenue. And if you look at even just Facebook and Google, they captured half of the total global digital advertising spend in 2020. And if you look at their news feeds And TV newscasts here in the U. S. Are losing now nearly $2,000,000,000 each year because people are getting their news again, via these digital platforms instead. So you talked about the deserts and the effect that that has when people don't have access, to local news. But basically we see global advertisers staying away from markets in the countries where USAID works, that is very vulnerable, countries often or developing economies. And so, as Brad said, that's something of a market failure here. The market trends are fairly straightforward, but we are not passive in the face of those trend, and I think that's what makes the viability accelerator, really really exciting. And so let me give you just a couple examples before turning it back to you. So Moldova, a place drowning in willful misinformation, USA launched something called the Media M initiative, where we worked with local media outlets to develop a membership system to increase subscription sales and to improve marketing strategies. And I I met with the people, who worked, you know, at the independent media that we're making use, again

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Microsoft and USAID are joining forces to address the crisis facing journalism and independent media. Brad Smith from Microsoft emphasizes the importance of businesses standing up for and promoting healthy democracy. Samantha Power from USAID discusses the Media Viability Accelerator program, which aims to support sustainable business models for independent media. She highlights the impact of independent media on citizen welfare and the need for financial support in the face of digital platforms dominating advertising and subscription revenue. Power shares success stories from Moldova and Nicaragua, where support from USAID has led to increased revenue and online reach for independent media outlets. She calls for more partners to join the initiative and emphasizes the importance of a partnership between government, civil society, and the private sector.

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Speaker 0: Alright. I'm gonna jump to you, Brad, first. Just talk to us about Microsoft and your interest in independent media In general, and I think for right now, like why is this feeling so urgent that you're that you're leaping into this space? Speaker 1: Well, I would start with 2 propositions that don't need much explanation, and I think you really hit the nail on the head already. Yeah. Democracy rests critically on healthy journalism, And journalism is under threat. Those, I think, are 2 things everybody in the room understands. I think what is maybe more interesting to think about is why should Microsoft or any company use its voice and its resources to do something about this. And I think there's 2 aspects that are worth thinking about. First, I think it is not only right and proper, but essential that businesses and people in business stand up for and help defend and promote healthy democracy. 1st, because people in business are people. We leave the office. We have families. We have homes. We're parts of communities and when we can vote, when we have freedom of expression, when we have the freedom to think and even the freedom to argue with each other, We have better lives as people, as families, as communities. But second, I think that this is an important moment in history 3 for people in business to stand up and actually say that business is good for democracy, and democracy is good for business. And let me explain why. 1st, I think democracy is good for business because business depends on innovation. It depends on creativity. It depends on the ability of people to try new things without fear of retribution for simply speaking their mind, And that's what democratic societies enable. And I'll also argue that businesses are good for democracy. The kind of innovations that we bring lead to economic growth, and they in turn lead to healthier democracies when it works well. Now we sometimes have market failures, which is what we're dealing with today, but I really hope that at a time when frankly there's more political pressure on businesses at times to speak out less rather than more. I think it's essential that in the United States and around the world, we sustain a consensus and a conviction that businesses should stand up for democracy. Speaker 0: Hear, hear. Cheers to that. Administrator Power, Talk to us a little bit about USAID's approaches and programs, including the Media Viability Accelerator, but but broadly, How, how you're addressing the crisis that's facing journalism and news media today. Speaker 1: Brad, you're on mute. Speaker 0: So smooth. He he Speaker 2: Brad had an interest in me being unmuted because the first thing I was doing was giving a shout out to Brad and and Microsoft. So I was in on that one. I, I could not be more grateful, to to Brad and to Microsoft, Not only on this initiative, but basically my experience in this job is that when we have an idea for how to do something in the world that is going to make an impact that we call Microsoft. There is a lot of enthusiasm to partner. And what's great is not only is that a kind of philanthropic and, you know, citizenly, mindset that exists, there and at at other companies as well. But it's rooted in the recognition that Brad just articulated so forcefully, which is The business case for economic development or digitization or climate change adaptation or here, The strengthening of democracy. And and that it's that voice also, and that catalytic power that, that that companies like Microsoft have, that matters so much. So it's not just, gee, people like you and me, preaching to the choir, on the importance of independent media, but it's actually Hey. Look. We in the private sector, we have an interest in showing up, in material ways. And so I I just I'm incredibly grateful for that. So first, before talking about what I think we can do and what the media, accelerator, viability accelerator will do, which you've already alluded to, Just to stay in the darkness, you know, a a moment, longer. You know, I think it's we have the data To show the importance of independent media, in actually just improving citizen welfare. And and so, again, back to one of Brad's points, in communities that have stronger local media, citizens are more likely to engage with the local government and more likely to vote. Now what's correlative and what's causation, we can leave to the social scientists. But, Again, the data shows elected officials become more responsive and efficient, and on average, cities are financially healthier. So again, you know, the the which comes first, the chicken or the egg, not clear, but these things have to go together. Independent media, of course, has long been talked about as a public good, and it's really only What some are calling a media extinction event that is upon us that is drawing more Public sector and private sector attention, to the need for sustainable business models, for, independent media all around the world and local media. Because what you now have is Digital platforms, which I'll say a sec talk a little bit more about in a second. Entertainment platforms capturing more and more of the advertising and subscription revenue. And if you look at even just Facebook and Google, they captured half of the total global digital advertising spend in 2020. And if you look at their news feeds and TV newscasts here in the US, are losing now nearly $2,000,000,000 each year because People are getting their news again via these digital platforms instead. So you talked about the deserts and the effect that that has when people don't have access, to local news. But, basically, we see global advertisers staying away from markets In the countries where USAID works, that is very vulnerable, countries often or developing economies. And so, As Brad said, that's something of a market failure here. The market trends are are fairly straightforward, but we are not passive in the face of those trends, and I think that's what makes the viability accelerator, really, really exciting. And so let me give you just a couple examples Before, turning it back to you. So Moldova, a place drowning in willful misinformation, USA launched something called the MediaM initiative, where we worked with local media outlets to develop a membership system To increase subs subscription sales and to improve marketing strategies. And I I met with the people, who worked, You know, at the independent media that we're making use, again, of this technical support, and, what we've seen is over the past 3 years, this Effort, this intentionality has increased the outlet's revenue, who've been again, aided, by this program, Increased revenue by 138% and online reach by an average of 160%. And indeed, one of the outlets that we're supporting in this way was the most visited outlet in all of Moldova right around the time that the pandemic started as people sought out fact based information. And indeed, about a quarter of all registered Internet users in Moldova accessed, one of these outlets, again benefiting from, this, market orientation. I'll give you another example. In Nicaragua, which is, of course, now notorious for attacks on the media, There's a really important outlet called La Prensa, which was brought to the brink of collapse by concentrated government pressure. You saw fines levied, against La Frenza, you saw paper and ink and other supplies that were being imported, impounded, causing La Frenza basically to suspend and lose out on the essential revenue that print media was still offering, and then, of course, arrests including of the general manager and the flight of staff, to neighboring countries. So as a result of all this, LaPrensa moved entirely online, but they had very little experience making that transition. And so what we did is we conducted a detailed assessment of the business structure, because, again, we have to think about business models, we have to think about making money. Not USAID making money, but, these, private enterprises. And we provided an infusion of emergency cash assistance, which was Important, I'm sure, in the short term, but much more importantly and enduringly, we sat down and worked with LaPrensa, to work through what a plan around significant restructuring to stabilize the financial situation would look like. And then with assistance from our partner, Newsgain, LaPreza focused on improving its website. It focused on using new software with better information on audience, on click rates, on sales data, and then tailoring what they were doing on the basis of data. I mean, Again, these outlets are getting shuttered all around the world either because of political pressure or because of market forces, but we don't all have to be bystanders in the face of those trends. And what we have seen, again, we haven't really scaled this and and we we hope with the viability accelerated that we'll be able to do so, is that this Kind of planning around who your target audience is, how you seek advertisers in a more sophisticated way, How you show to those advertisers the benefit of actually, investing in these sites, you know, can make a major difference. The other thing last thing I'd just say as an example of what we're doing and a kind of fresh approach I was just talking to Brad about offline is one of the corrupt or the oligarch or the repressive leaders tools sort of new tools in the toolbox here in the 21st century and in the last 5 years is the lawsuit against the plucky independent media or local news outlet or even anti corruption organization that is doing an investigation where people with a lot of money have an interest in keeping that money and in keeping, sunlight away from what they are doing. And so we've actually just launched something called Reporters' Shield, which is an insurance fund for journalists doing work that is politically perilous. And journalists will be able to buy in. It's basically a global public good because it's in everybody's interests, as we've discussed, for for independent media to To not only survive, but to thrive. And so we are trying to resource that now. We're making an additional, And we brought in, some foundation partners at the beginning. But imagine again a journalist who just knows the bargaining advantage That, the corrupt actor has and the ability that that corruptor actor has to throw money at the problem, what does the journalist do in the face of that? And how does that, how do we, create again a model where journalists can sustain themselves as they do this work that we know is so critical for our societies? So Last thing I'll say is just in the face of, this so called mass extinction event, we need so much more, than what USAID or any donor or development agency or country can do. We're thrilled to have Microsoft and IntraNews Using respectively their business acumen and the media acumen to to scale this. But we have a mindset here at USAID now, which is progress beyond programs. So we have a program now, that is enshrined in this media viability accelerator. But the question is, how do we catalyze others? How do we leverage The financial resources and technical knowledge, you know, of companies like Microsoft, of organizations like IntrNews. How can we crowd in, other actors, to support this effort, given, as Brad articulated it, the society wide interest we all have, in in sustaining this form of accountability, and and this check and balance that is so vital to all the other, needs that a society has. And so that's the call to action in closing, which is we need more partner partners. This is a true partnership from the ground floor between government, civil society, and the private sector, and Yet, we're only getting started and so would love, folks who are in the room there to talk about this. We have 5 other organizations that have pledged technical Financial support for this initiative, but we are looking for more partners to join us, and I think it's a chance to be a part of a really cutting edge,

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Here’s the link on the World Economic Forum organizing major US disinfo work. Yikes this is even bigger than I realized! The Credibility Coalition helped the World Economic Forum personally! “We will also be getting help managing the project from the Credibility Coalition.” “Our process began at a meeting in San Francisco in March, convened by the World Economic Forum and underwritten by Craig Newmark, which brought together many of the independent efforts to rate quality in news — including the Trust Project, Reporters Without Borders, Internews, the Credibility Coalition, Storyful, Open Brand Safety, the W3C, and others — with representatives from the major technology companies, the ad industry, the academe, and government to take stock of the overall effort to combat disinformation and support quality, determining what is needed.” “To do much of the work of aggregating signals, we are hiring Trust Metrics, a well-established company that already rates more than a million sites and apps against thousands of features for advertisers. Trust Metrics has the means and mechanisms — human and algorithmic — to deal with this task of rating and aggregating data about thousands of news sites. Importantly, Trust Metrics also deals not just at the low end of the quality spectrum — warning advertisers away from bad sites — but also the high end of that spectrum, driving ad dollars there. “ https://archive.is/pSIcR Tweet photo archive for safe keeping “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better “ https://archive.is/d3ltD

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Arabella sponsored Data For Democracy, led by CIA Renee Diresta, allegedly engaged in global resistance operations while censoring conservatives. They collaborated with the Obama Whitehouse and continued their actions during the elections, even working with the DHS. The resistance was involved in the elections and fact-checked the individuals they resisted.

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New Knowledges, Arabella sponsored Data For Democracy, including CIA Renee Diresta, ran a global resistance operation while censoring conservatives. They started censoring us while they worked with the Obama Whitehouse and then continued on until reaching our elections while working with the DHS. We have the resistance involved in our elections and fact checking the very people they resist!

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⚡️Bad Kitty Expose’ Part 16, New Knowledge’s, Data For Democracy, is known for some of the earlier disinfo work, and now the Resistance too! Before 2017 even arrived, Data for Democracy swung into action. Read on because it’s going to be huge! This resistance org is where much of our disinfo work was sparked from! Recall Data for Democracy was even partnered with the CTI League Files, Credibility Coalition. And Renee Diresta was in the EIP for election disinfo! Renee DiResta is the head of policy for Data for Democracy. They even pushed a site that called for Trumps electors to switch to Hillary because of Russian collusion! Remember us sitting on pins and needles over this insurrection? First, Data For Democracy was sponsored by Arabella Hopewell Fund if this gives you a clue. And oh lookie, Propublica is mentioned too. After Trump won the election in Dec 2016, Data for Democracy began as an experiment using people from around the world for immediate social change. Which essentially means we had foreign e-volunteers trying to enact US social change and resist our president! In an article they mention its intention was to support the Indivisible movement (Obamas resistance org), investigate and monitor the far right, supporting orgs like the Immigration Law Center, and reviewing 2016 election data etc. Recall in my Expose’ Part 10 they gathered it from every states SOS in the country! The immigration stuff covered the Muslim ban, and an Ice dashboard. Essentially they covered opposing Trumps policies. Indivisible Project Description: “A variety of civic activism organizations have sprung up in the wake of the election to help mobilize and empower people. The organizations often operate by sending out daily or weekly “actions” that their supporters partake in – whether calling a Member of Congress’s office, attending an event, or reading a key piece of information. As these sites proliferate, it becomes difficult to effectively signal boost and target actions appropriately. For this project, we will build tools to: ♦️Identify various actions available for users by aggregating different sources of data ♦️Provide a clean user interface to filter and select actions they are interested in ♦️Build a dashboard and track action progress/effectiveness over time ♦️Engage user interest through social media or similar means to identify tasks for more effective actions” Linked from the Data For Democravy GitHub: America the Indivisible The Loyal Ninety-Nine “Project Description Problem: A variety of civic activism organizations have sprung up in the wake of the election to help mobilize and empower people. The organizations often operate by sending out daily or weekly “actions” that their supporters partake in – whether calling a Member of Congress’s office, attending an event, or reading a key piece of information. As these sites proliferate, it becomes difficult to effectively signal boost and target actions appropriately. Proposed solution: The proposed solution would be an interface that, on one end, scrapes content from the existing action sites networks. An algorithm then filters that content to present a third person (the user) with a curated list of actions designed to be highest-impact for them (for example, the algorithm might take into account location for targeting MOCs, or estimated turnout at an event.) The user can then pick from their curated list.” Some of the resistance sites they scrapped and consolidated? (I’ll review these down below.) Many are worse than they sound. 🔹Resistance Near Me 🔹Rise Stronger 🔹Call to Activism 🔹5 Minutes 🔹Daily Grabback 🔹2 Hours a week Some of their other projects? 🔸Disinfo Campaigns 🔸Hate Speech 🔸ATI Facebook broadcast app - to mobilize 🔸Etc So who are some of these Data For Democracy volunteers? Well, I found a massive list of their board members, and it even includes the entire Data & Society org! All links to follow.

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The posts discuss the involvement of various organizations and individuals in a network that promotes left-leaning ideologies and conducts censorship and covert operations against right-wing movements. The Alliance4Europe, funded by the EU and Parliament, co-created the Social Media Intelligence Unit (SMIU) to target content using social media platforms' algorithms. The SMIU was integrated into the European Hub for Civic Engagement, supported by organizations such as the German Foreign Office and Soros Open Society EU. The SMIU employed tactics like behavior change and voter manipulation, drawing on intelligence and law enforcement techniques. The posts also mention the Erasmus+ Program's co-funding of the Narratives of Impact program, which aimed to engage with marginalized communities and individuals who feel underrepresented in political institutions.

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Breaking! Bad Kitty Exposé part 17 saves X with more CTI League Files! We have EU Censorship, that also targets the USA, & is all about winning for the left! They consider the USA, populist right, a threat to the EU which makes us a target too! The AMITT/DISARM framework (CTI League Files) used for EU, US, & now global censorship, was co-created by a leftist org, Alliance4Eu, that was paid by the EU to promote anti Brexit support & pro leftist ideologies including sustainability, LGBTQ, & migrants etc. Both the EU & Parliament funded these censorship & covert ops against the RIGHT. They even hired both EU AND US citizens & had a Philly branch! Let’s provide a few quotes here: Omri Preiss - managing dir Alliance4Europe, SMIU, & FOUNDING board member of DISARM Fndn: “In 2019, he became managing director of Alliance4Europe, a platform that pools the strengths of pro- European initiatives to combat right-wing populism.” Alliance4EU’s SMIU page: “Help the European cause! The far-right is gaining influence. One of their most relevant areas is social media where they are attracting millions of moderate voters with populist points and fake news.” Narratives of Impact: “By using the Social Media Intelligence Unit, Alliance4Europe (DISARM) will be able to target content using social media platforms' own algorithmic uplift.” Scientists for EU: “is a campaign by UK scientists to keep the UK in the EU.” Mike Galsworthy of Scientists4Eu, Netwar System, and SMIU: “We've built a very effective online community of local pages that far outguns Brexit Party & all political parties.” The Alliance4EU, of DISARM Fndn, officially ran the Social Media Intelligence Unit (SMIU). This was partly funded by parliament, and was funded also by the EU itself thru the Narratives of Impact (NOI) program. Mike Galsworthy of Brexit hating Scientists4EU is the Head of the Social Media Intelligence Unit (SMIU) ran by the Alliance4EU. Alliance4EU also co-founded an European Hub for Civic Engagement where activists & orgs congregate & get new assignments. The European Hub was initiated by the Berlin think tank Das Progressive Zentrum (The Progressive Centre) & co-created by Alliance4EU & Citizens for EU. The SMIU services were integrated into the Hub by Alliance4EU. Hub supporters are: -German Foreign Office -Soros Open Society EU -BMW Fndn -Stiftung Mercator A precursor of SMIU was Netwar System which was supported by Scientists4EU but also shared Alliance4EU staff. James Patrick, previously of Scotland Yard, Netwar System & Alliance4eu SMIU, powered SMIU with Socint intelligence. “(Socint) was deployed for the first time in full when the company won an SBRI tender to work on a UK Gov project. We are also working closely with an established client base which includes a law enforcement focused NGO in the USA & a political party based in England.” (Law enforcement NGO in the US? What?) Socint on behavior change & voting: “By processing info from a range of sources in an ethical way, we are able to deliver rapid insight into geographical & demographic groups, using beneficial psychology to create behavioural change. We can also accurately model behavioural outcomes, from votes to downloads.” Socint also used Intelligence & law enforcement tactics on citizens: “The Social Intelligence Model draws on extensive operational experience of the National Intelligence Model designed for law enforcement & intel services, adapted to the social & political landscape & accounting for progress in the fields of big data, psychometrics, & hybrid warfare.” “Where the intel process identifies an active disinfo campaign, the combat technique follows exactly the same process, identifying the counter-message & deploying an engagement campaign. Videos of 2 SMIU folks: Maia Mazurkiewicz Alliance4eu discusses behavior change, covid, & opposition. Mike Galsworthy scientists4EU discusses the SMIU & beating Brexit. More to follow including sources.

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We are currently facing a difficult period with COVID-19, leading to a lot of disinformation and changing attitudes towards the virus and the vaccine. We are monitoring these changes and considering how to address them. Additionally, we are concerned about the Polish and Hungarian governments threatening the European Union with a budget veto over the rule of law issue. We are monitoring online discussions and planning to support the European Union through behavioral changes. It is crucial to spread positive messages and demonstrate the importance of the European Union to all European citizens.

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Speaker 0: As you probably know, we are in the very difficult period with, COVID and hence. We see a lot of disinformation flowing and, change of attitudes of people. So we already have seen with our monitoring system that, people attitudes towards the COVID and towards the vaccine are changing. And, therefore, we're thinking on how to work with that. So, forward on the how COVID is, basically communicated in social media. So I'm happy to, to provide you with that if you need And, also, we are right now dealing with another issue as we are Alliance for Europe. European Union is super important for us since, 2 governments, Polish and Hungarian ones, decided to threaten the European Union, with the veto of the budget regarding the rule of law issue. And that's why we also did some searching and monitoring of, data around the system, and we are thinking on how we can support it with the behavioral changes. So we are, having a tool to monitor the the Internet to monitor what the opposition is saying to monitor what is happening in the online debate. So we need to act right now. We need to spread the positive messages, and we need to show that, the European Union is something that all of us citizens of Europe, all the European states. Cool. Cool. Cool.

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The speaker addresses frontline activists who are feeling disenchanted and believes that the People's Vote campaign is not fading. They mention upcoming events and the extension of at least three months for building support for a people's vote. The speaker discusses the opportunity to develop regional campaigns through social media intelligence and mentions successful local Facebook pages. They encourage supporting local campaigns and pressuring Labour MPs to not support Theresa May's deal. The speaker emphasizes the importance of building community and local connections to change people's minds. They provide action points to contact Labour MPs and engage with local Facebook pages. The speaker concludes by encouraging questions and comments and mentions attending to their baby.

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Speaker 0: Okay. Good evening, everyone. I'm going to have to talk in hushed tones because I have little babies sleeping there and she could wake up at any moment. So you've got me as long as you've got me. Now, I'm back on because I've been hearing recently a lot of the frontline activists, they're they're disenchanted, they're They're unhappy. They think maybe we've lost the game already. And so they're down in the hut. I like to think you're down in the hut because you just haven't had me talking to you in a while and telling you what's going on and pepping you up. Now, I understand that there were a recent set of votes, which were a complete and utter mess, and the media have been running a narrative that PV hit its peak and then it's now it's fading. It's not actually the case. People's Vote campaign is somewhat taking a step back and waiting for other options to be burnt up. We're trying to allow, Labour to build a cluster on the side, which is happening. Lots and lots of things going on parliament, which are actually putting stuff in place. Also, lots of you want a big march, a big event That is coming few more days. Just be patient. Don't worry. That's all plan. We know you want to get out there. We know you're chomping at the bit to get out there and show you and strengthen the numbers again. That is going to happen. Absolutely. It's getting set up. It's getting planned. But here's another thing. And that is the whole situation is a mess now. It is for sure that there is going to be an extension for at least 3 months. That means we have time to build. We've got time to build for a people's vote. We've got time to apply more pressure to all of these shifting demographics, to local MPs really, really stretching that gap between remain and leave, which is opening, opening up. And here for me is the, the most exciting, opportunity. So, yeah, I have been off partly because of, you know, little baby there. And it's hard to do videos when you've got a baby, but also I've been building within scientists. Eu, a social media intelligence unit. And we've been harvesting the data from all the Facebook pages, for and against the political parties and all the Twitter accounts and mapping a lot of those communities. It's been really good fun as a scientist. I love this kind of stuff. But one thing that I've recognized, through doing all of this is that we're sitting on a massive opportunity here, which is, there are so many regional campaigns out there. I think we've got 170 associated with European Movement that have their own Facebook pages, that could be developed to be real local campaigning citadels if they had the online know how about how to build up the local audience, weave it in with the Facebook pages and Twitter pages of their local news channels and, football clubs and food banks and charities and so forth and so on. So we are developing from our new social media intelligence unit, the know how to do that, the capacity to do that dashboards so that you can see how things are going on in your region. The pro EU pages versus the leave pages. And we're doing, test runs with Manchester for Europe, which is why I've been promoting Manchester scientists for Europe, Manchester for Europe, Stockport for Europe, and all of that little cluster recently. If you look back at the posts and got I've just gone and looked through now how many 4 Europe pages we have, and I'm still counting them. It's reams and reams and some of them are already doing bloody well. So get this, this won't crack me up. Bristol for Europe has got 30,000 engagements this week's likes, shares, comments. That's on the same level as the official People's Vote campaign. Okay. Just Bristol for Europe. Okay. Dorset for Europe have got 6 a half 1000 likes and shares. You know, You're talking about Dorset next to Cornwall, 8,000, you know, down, down, down there. They're, they're really kicking it. And, What are some of the other pages that are doing well? Manchester because we're helping them Worcester, Sussex, Berkshire, a lot of ones that would surprise you that are really putting in the work and putting in the effort. So what I suggest is as we prepare all of those dashboards to help Those local campaigns know the best ways in order to build themselves up and see the environment around them. I would suggest that you go back and you find and support your local Facebook pages and invite all of your friends, they're there geographically in order to go and support that. As I was looking through them, they're all growing. Even the ones that aren't actually putting out posts, you know, They've left them alone, but local audiences coming on anyway. So get back and get involved because if we can build this up together over the next, you know, 3 months. We are gonna be in a position that the leave campaign never was because they never built up to the same degree that we have since the end of 2016, all of those local networks. And so we're gonna be sending through all those those top tips and so forth and so on. And that's going to be fun. Like that's a really good project that feels right. Because one of the things that I think we've done right in all this campaigning since the end of 2016 is really, really, really built community and built it on the local granular level. So that's something that I'm dead proud of that we've done and that we can really go to Telenworth now because now we has the extra tools. So what should you do now? Action points. Action points. So firstly, with regard to Labour, because that's important to really pressure at the moment, right to your local Labour MP. If you're if you don't have a Labour MP, write to your CLP, your constituency Labour Party, your local Labour Party. Just just Google them, find them. You'll get emails and insist that they do not support Theresa May's deal, and work with Theresa May and insist, that they do not let her deal slip through. Those are the 2 things that you need to pressure on that. And then the other thing you need to do is find your local Facebook page, wherever it may be, the closest one, and get on that. Get them putting posts up again, get all of your friends involved with it as well. And then we will be coming along shortly to be offering boosts to all of these regional and, city, Facebook groups and weave it into all the social media, social media and all of the online communications for those areas and really, really build it up. Because here's why. When people convert from, leave to remain, it's not because they've heard, you know, fancy chat on the media, you know, a politician or a campaigner has really convinced them on the BBC or Channel 4 or whatever. It's because it's people like them with the same background as them, same concerns as them, working the same jobs as them, in the in the same circumstances and location as them It takes the time to work with them, take them through the arguments or involve them in a community, a clear community that cares about the local issues. That's when people turn around, when they see that kind of dynamic. It is the local chat. It is the local conversion. It is the local landscape, and that's why we are going to be building up locally now. You know, it's right. Okay. So those are the actions for you to get on with. Those are the reasons for you to be cheery because this thing is going to go to extension now. The other options are being burnt out. And so this is why we now We build, we build, and we build, and we do it online, and we do it smartly. Okay, cool. And if you've got any questions or suggestions As always, pop them in the comments below, and, I I will dig through them up and I will comment on them. And I can hear sort of babies sort of grunting and squirming now, so I should probably go and take care of that.

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Narratives Of Impact - Social Media Intelligence unit. Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Now, Netwar System and its CTI League/DISARM links existed a very long time before this program even started. Obviously parliament supported this also. Expect more on this later. “Alliance4Europe is a non-profit civic start up, working to build a democratic, sustainable Europe for and by citizens. We bring together pro-Europeans and pro-democrats to foster cooperation, have a louder voice and activate citizens” Target group: 🔹“passive positives” - individuals with a positive view of democracy and diversity who do not feel represented in political institutions and tend not to participate. This is based on research commissioned by Alliance4Europe in 10 countries in 2018-2019. 🔹A subset of “passive positives” labelled the “invisibles” are individuals who have a positive view but do not receive any political or current affairs communications in their day to day life. 🔹Engaging in dialogue with an audience that has a critical view towards the European Union. Reaching them through specific influencers who have dedicated reach and tailoring, and provide information and opportunities for dialogue that rarely take place. 🔹Specific marginalized or underrepresented communities facing intersectional social exclusion, including migrants and refugees, people with disabilities, as well as women and LGBTI+ people. Download a copy here👇🏻 https://web.archive.org/web/20230803204649/https://narrativesofimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IO1-v.3-Using-Digital-Storytelling-for-Impact-and-Change-Measurement-Report.pdf

@DecentFiJC — Jonathan

Posted - December 22, 2023 at 4:45 PM

Saved - December 22, 2023 at 5:15 PM

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Post 1 highlights the alleged connections between Poland, Atlantic Council, World Bank, and various global philanthropic organizations, including Soros. It mentions the Alliance4EU's collaboration with DHS CISA for disinformation. The post also discusses the director of Alliance4EU's association with Philea, a leftist philanthropic group. Philea's Global Philanthropic Leadership Platform includes members like Soros Open Society, United Nations, World Bank Group, and more. The post concludes by mentioning Philea's areas of concern and funding sources. Post 2 mentions a declassified CIA intel report that suggests the Zionists have knowledge about Poland. It also mentions an incident where Facebook allowed calls for violence against Russia to be posted in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Post 3 sarcastically recalls the reaction of Rothschild, World Bank, Zionist, and EU individuals when Viktor Orban outlawed Soros's "open borders" ideology in Hungary. (Note: The summary maintains the original author's tone and does not express any bias or opinions.)

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Poland, eh? Yeah, I hear there’s lots of Atlantic Council traitors and World Bank operatives tied to Poland. Great stuff, @pepesgrandma!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/4CXamcb0OD

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🔥Huge News! The Bad Kitty Exposé Series Will Save The World Part 19! The US and EU GOVERNMENTS disinfo work (CTI League Files) is linked to massive anti right-wing GLOBAL philanthropy including Soros. What I suspect that many don’t realize is that the Alliance4EU works with our DHS CISA for disinfo. Along with many countries including the European Union, United Nations, and NATO. As I have already shown you in Parts 17 and 18, this highly partisan org was strictly created to counter the right and is motivated to destroy us. The director and co-founder of Alliance4EU, Omri Preiss, was actually taken on by a major leftist and GLOBAL philanthropic group called Philea. Read on, it gets pretty bad. The Alliance4EU European Hub For Civic Engagement, funded by Soros etc, was not created by them. It was a PexProject by Philea. Omri Preiss of Alliance4EU is actually a partner to Philea Pex. Philea has a Global Philanthropic Leadership Platform (PLP): “PLP is a peer-led leadership exchange program that brings together philanthropy practitioners from different global regions.” So who are members of Philea’s Global Philanthropic Leadership Platform? ♦️Soros Open Society 🔹German Marshall Fund USA (They created Alliance for Securing Democracy aka Hamilton68) 🔸Rockefeller Brothers ♦️United Nations 🔹World Bank Group 🔸Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn ♦️BMW 🔹Ford Foundation 🔸Pew Charitable Trusts ♦️Princeton University 🔹Plus more Now back to Philea Pex. So what are some of their areas of concern? ♦️Gender Equity and Justice 🔹Racial Equity 🔸Climate ♦️Building collective intelligence There’s a long list of Philea Pex participating orgs, here’s a few: ♦️World Economic Forum 🔹 EDGE Funders Alliance (Soros, and Ford Fndn etc) 🔸 ClimateWorks Foundation ♦️Gender Funders CoLab 🔹 Serbian Philanthropy Forum 🔸 Ukrainian Philanthropists Forum ♦️Etc Pex is funded by: ♦️Oak Foundation (Soros Partner) 🔹 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 🔸 Robert Bosch Stiftung (Soros partner) ♦️Plus tons more All sourcing to follow!

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

Seems the Zionists know Poland quite well too. (This is from a declassified CIA intel report.) Also loved that time when Facebook/Meta “allowed calls for violence against Russia” to be posted on Facebook and Instagram in Russia, Ukraine and… you guessed it… POLAND.🤣 https://t.co/KVKFjjLtMF

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

He is, indeed!😎 Hey, remember how salty all those Rothschild/World Bank/Zionist/EU cucks got when Viktor Orban outlawed Soros’s “open borders” bullshit? Lol, that was hilarious AF.🤣 https://t.co/Pm23tLNCpO

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@DecentFiJC Isn’t Soros banned in Hungary? 😁 💪🏻

@pepesgrandma — Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁

Posted - December 31, 2023 at 3:05 PM

Saved - December 31, 2023 at 3:38 PM

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The DHS CISA partnered with Alliance4EU to create DemoCrisis, a new global organization. DemoCrisis aims to fight against the populist right, which they see as a global pandemic. Their mission is to support democratic activists, share experiences, and provide rapid support to countries facing democratic backsliding. They believe that nationalistic populism transcends borders and requires global cooperation to combat. The debut of DemoCrisis was hosted by the European Parliament.

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Part 20 Bad Kitty Exposé The DHS CISA partnered, Alliance4EU, has now recently cofounded a new GLOBAL networked org called DemoCrisis. Their debut hosted by the European Parliament! An org for gathering up the few crumbs of the populist right leftovers, and destroying them. The DemoCrisis mission is fighting the populist right which they consider a pandemic and scourge upon the world. DemoCrisis: “Our mission is to foster cooperation among democratic activists, share experiences, and support one another in countries facing democratic backsliding or at risk. In a world where nationalistic populism transcends borders, our network seeks to provide global solutions and rapid support to democracy advocates worldwide.” “The platform is based on the premise that nationalistic populism is a global pandemic, travelling fast across borders; nationalistic leaders who succeed inspire others to follow suit. The solution must therefore cross borders, ensuring that best practices and even moral support travel fast among freedom fighters across the world. Just like climate change requires urgent cooperation at a global level, democratic backsliding is an urgent wake-call to act together. The DemoCrisis Action Network is connecting global solutions for a global problem.”

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🔥🔥Bad Kitteh Exposé part 20. Dear right-wing populists, the DHS CISA partnered, Disarm Fndn, is coming for you! Poland, Hungary, and Israel, are the last bastion of right wing holdout countries. They are top on the list, but any country at risk of right-wing leadership is a DemoCrisis target! And what started this targeting? The election of Trump! See video #1 for evidence! In the last few parts, I exposed the rampant anti right sentiments of Disarm Fndn’s, Alliance4eu, and also their deep connections to billionaire philanthropy to accomplish their mission. Recall our DHS CISA etc is partnered with them to censor the right. Early fall, Alliance4EU cofounded a new org called DemoCrisis, and its debut was HOSTED by the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT! The idea is to destroy the last bastion of the right in primarily 3 countries but yet still have a global aim when needed. Say when a country elects, or attempts to elect, a right-wing leader. This is what is censoring us, and we were right all along, censorship was built to destroy the populist right. DemoCrisis mission statement: “Our mission is to foster cooperation among democratic activists, share experiences, and support one another in countries facing democratic backsliding or at risk. In a world where nationalistic POPULISM transcends borders, our network seeks to provide global solutions and rapid support to democracy advocates worldwide.” DemoCrisis on Omri Preiss of the DHS CISA Disarm Fndn partnered Alliance4eu: "All over the world we see similar patterns of the destruction of democracy. We have to fight for our freedom and democracy" says our board member and co-founder Omri Preiss CEO of Alliance4Europe” Jerusalem post: “In essence, the idea is to link the Israeli pro-Democracy/judicial overhaul protest movement with European groups sharing the same worldviews, especially in countries such as Poland and Hungary, ruled by NATIONALIST or POPULIST governments. The launching of DemoCrisis will start with a handmaid march by Israeli, Polish, Hungarian and other European women, outside the European Parliament building in Brussels.” “We are talking about a global plague which requires global action.” “The DemoCrisis conference will take place just four days before crucial elections in Poland, where voters will have to choose between four more years of a populist government and its long-standing opposition.” “Populist parties are usually well-organized and we have seen that they inspire each other by using similar strategies and tactics to undermine democratic institutions and human rights.” Omri Preiss: “As societies, we have a clear choice: let our democracies fall apart and be taken over by kleptocratic strong-men, and go extict as a species when we fail to act on climate change *or* innovate democracy to be inclusive and effective so we can build a successful sustainable future.” DemoCrisis: “All over the world we see similar patterns of the destruction of democracy. We have to fight for our freedom and democracy" says our board member and co-founder Omri Preiss CEO of Alliance4Europe.” Videos 1 - DemoCrisis and their associated founders, Alliance4EU, was sparked by the election of Donald Trump, whose populism spread thru the EU like a virus. Netanyahu was a symptom. Video 2 - The CEO of a pharmaceutical company welcomes DemoCrisis and is adamant they will win against the populist right. Likely because they have European Union activists at their beck and call. Video 3 - Omri Preiss, a key figure in the DHS CISA partnered Disarm Fndn, says they are at war, and calls us dictators. @elonmusk what more do you need? Our censors are out to destroy the populist right! All sources will follow below!

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Poles, Hungarians, and other Europeans understand the struggle of living without the rule of law. It is crucial for us to unite and fight against this growing problem in other countries. Let's join forces and stand together.

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Speaker 0: Poles, Hungarians, and other Europeans know well what it means to be deprived of the rule of law. We need today to stand up together. This Phenomena, is unfortunately growing in other countries. And that's why we should Join our forces. Stand together.

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The speaker highlights the importance of addressing the crisis in democracies around the world. They mention the rise of disinformation and attacks on those in power. They call for a united effort across Europe to defend democracy, both offline and online. The speaker invites people to join an event at the European Parliament on October 11th to make their voices heard.

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Speaker 0: The world might be on fire with climate change, with war and suffering, but we cannot put that fire out as long as our democracies are in crisis. All over the world and all over Europe, we've seen democracy under attack. A common, well coordinated, well funded dictator's playbook That rolls out and tears the fabric of our societies with hatred and lies. Whether it's in Poland, in Hungary, Israel or countless other countries, We see the same patterns of disinformation and attacks on those who hold power to account. We need to roll out a playbook for democracy To come together across Europe, across borders and the region, out on the streets and online, bringing together all parts of society. People and social movements have stood up for their rights, and we need to share that experience and know how. So come join us at the European Parliament the 11th October, and you'll be able to make your voice heard.

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Posted - January 3, 2024 at 7:56 PM

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I’m cross referencing this, the info speaks for itself. Off the top of my head you have here at Disinfo Portal: ♦️CTI League Folks ♦️CIA NED ♦️Integrity Initiative leaked orgs and members ♦️Alliance for Securing Democracy (Hamilton68) ♦️Ukraine Color Revolution org ♦️Serbian Otpor Org ♦️etc

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🔥🔥Hot stuff! I’ve STRONGLY linked the CIA to US regime change and at the very least, disinfo work! Now here’s what I missed in the below linked Disinfo Portal thread: ♦️The CIA NED was partnered with the Atlantic Council Disinfo Portal: - NED International Forum for Democratic Studies ♦️The CIA’s Serbian regime change branch was physically partnered with the Atlantic Councils Disinfo portal! -Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) -CEAS is actually a MEMBER of the NED! https://archive.is/R5pLR Here’s the link that shows that CEAS was actively involved in Serbian regime change. https://archive.is/To2nO -Link to contract awarded to NED👇🏻 https://archive.is/lU9G5 ♦️ Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC): The CIA’s NED FUNDED Ukraine Regime change tool (For the Orange Revolution) is actually partnered with the Disinfo Portal too. Ned funding: https://archive.is/FVJD5 Here’s info on UCMC and the Ukraine color revolution. https://archive.is/aiFWi And of course many CTI League folks were members of the Disinfo Portal too. Here’s a link to Disinfo Portal partners: https://web.archive.org/web/20190218145839/https://disinfoportal.org/partners/ And TONS of the other Disinfo Portal partnered orgs and members were in the Integrity Initiative and linked to the CIA. Read about this and tons more CIA links below. 👇🏻

Partners - Disinfo Portal web.archive.org

@shellenberger — Michael Shellenberger

Posted - April 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM

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Russia's alleged bribery of politicians lacks proof and arrests, while NGOs are accused of spreading disinformation and illegally interfering in European elections. Government-funded NGOs, linked to NATO, are implicated in this interference, aiming to align Germany with American foreign policy objectives and undermine the European peace movement. The evidence suggests that European intelligence agencies and NATO are violating EU laws against foreign election interference.

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Russia bribed politicians, EU officials claimed. But they provided no proof and made no arrests. And now, Public has learned, NGOs are working as front groups for Western military and intelligence agencies to spread disinformation and interfere, illegally, in European elections. https://t.co/crpMN5imrC

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Government-Funded NGOs, Linked To NATO, Are Interfering In European Elections “Correctiv” and “Institute for Strategic Dialogue” are military and intelligence front groups spreading disinformation about German farmers and politicians, evidence suggests by @GregorBas1 and @Shellenberger Last week, Public reported that European politicians are waging a disinformation campaign aimed at smearing their political opponents as linked to Russia. The current effort appears related to a disinformation operation by the French military. In February, French military officials claimed that “websites” were promoting “an anti-French narrative.” In February and now, Western government officials made accusations against their political enemies but made no arrests and announced no prosecutions, which likely means they do not have any evidence of criminal activity. As such, government military and intelligence agencies are engaged in essentially political activities unrelated to national security and thus illegal. Now, Public has learned that both NATO-funded and government-funded NGOs are working with government bodies to interfere in German elections. Their “influence operation” aims to keep Germany in line with American foreign policy objectives and undermine the European peace movement. The evidence suggests that European intelligence agencies and NATO are breaking domestic EU laws against foreign election interference. The EU prohibits elected officials and politicians from using military, intelligence, and security agencies to advance political and electoral means....

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@shellenberger — Michael Shellenberger

Posted - May 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM

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The Twitter Files investigation reveals that members of the CIA and other intelligence agencies were involved in an effort to take control of Twitter's content moderation system. The individuals involved also sought to de-platform and censor individuals deemed to be a threat. The investigation raises concerns about the influence of intelligence agencies on social media platforms and the potential implications for free speech and citizen control of the military. The investigation was conducted by a joint Public-Racket team and raises questions about the role of intelligence agencies in shaping online discourse.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

TWITTER FILES - CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the most famous of the 18 US government agencies that comprise the Intelligence Community (IC) of the United States of America. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the law strictly prohibits CIA employees or contractors from spying upon or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil. But now, a new Twitter Files investigation reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of the CIA’s mission-driven venture capital firm and ostensibly “former” IC and CIA analysts were involved in a 2021-2022 effort to take over Twitter’s content management system. The effort also involved: — a long-time IC contractor and senior Department of Defense R&D official who spent years developing technologies to detect whistleblowers (“insider threats”) like Edward Snowden and Wikileaks’ leakers; — the proposed head of the DHS’ aborted Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, who aided US military and NATO “hybrid war” operations in Europe; — Jim Baker, who, as FBI General Counsel, helped start the Russiagate hoax, and, as Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, urged Twitter executives to censor The New York Post story about Hunter Biden. https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604902028852924416 These existing or former IC employees, contractors, or intermediaries weren’t satisfied with simply controlling Twitter. They also wanted to use PayPal, Amazon Web Services, and GoDaddy in a totalizing effort to de-platform, de-monetize, and excommunicate from the Internet entirely those individuals that the IC et al. deems to be a threat. There is much that we still do not know about the effort. We do not know if officials within the CIA or any other IC organization ran the operation. It is possible that the only individuals involved in the effort were the ones we discovered. And none of the individuals involved responded to our request for information except for one. But thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents contained therein paint a clear picture of an organized operation by existing or former IC employees and contractors, using well-established IC tradecraft, to take control of Twitter’s content moderation. Our investigation comes at a moment when governments and intelligence agencies around the world are stepping up their efforts to monitor and censor their citizens. It thus has large implications for policymakers and the public in Western nations that look to the US as a model for free speech and citizen control of the military. This is a joint Public-Racket investigation. The authors are @Shellenberger @MTaibbi and @GalexyBrane. As always, the only condition we agreed to in publishing this was to first publish on X. At the end of this thread, we explain why and how this investigation began. Here we go...

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

35. In response to Roth, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy. Baker does so over email, and in a Google doc, on October 14 and 15.

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Nina Jankowicz And The Alethea Group Before the IC’s attempt to infiltrate Twitter and control its content moderation, several of the operatives involved made the case for treating “disinformation” as a security threat that requires intelligence and military tactics to combat. On June 11, 2020, a little-known book publisher (“I.B. Tauris”) published Nina Jankowicz’s How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, which argues for “info war” like the kind the US government waged in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Nina Jankowicz (Getty Images) In her book, Jankowicz compares the lack of regulation of speech on social media regulations to the lack of government regulation of automobiles in the 1960s. She calls for a “cross-platform” and public-private approach, so whatever actions are taken are taken by Google, Facebook, and Twitter, simultaneously. Jankowicz points to Europe as the model for regulating speech. “Germany’s NetzDG law requires social media companies and other content hosts to remove ‘obviously illegal’ speech within twenty-four hours,” she says, “or face a fine of up to $50 million.” By contrast, in the US, she laments, “Congress has yet to pass a bill imposing even the most basic of regulations related to social media and election advertising.” The purpose of her book is to sound the alarm and offer a vision. “The Biden-Harris administration can, and should, take up many of the solutions outlined in this book,” she writes. If the West is to win the “information war,” it needs a whole-of-society response, like the US and NATO used in Eastern Europe. She praises a NATO cyber security expert for having created a “Center of Excellence.” If that term sounds familiar to close observers of the Censorship Industrial Complex, it might be because Renée Diresta of the Stanford Internet Observatory, in 2021, promoted a “Center of Excellence” in a Department of Homeland Security video she recorded, in which she made the case for the Disinformation Governance Board Jankowicz would later, briefly, head up. One year later, Jankowicz would work with an anti-disinformation consulting firm to Twitter staffed by “former” IC analysts. Its name was Alethea Group.

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“A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News” On July 28, 2020, a little-known teen and young adult book publisher released True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News, by Cindy Otis, a former CIA analyst. “I had wanted to work for the CIA almost my whole life,” she writes. “Almost all governments, including the United States, have used fake news as a weapon to influence events in other countries.” One year later, she would become a senior analyst for Alethea Group. We did not hear back from Cindy Otis. However, Jankowicz told us over email that Otis “led research at Alethea through July 2021.” Jankowicz said, “My full time employment with Alethea began September 13, 2021. Ms. Otis left Alethea prior to that period. To my knowledge, she has not been employed with Alethea since that time.” “My work with Alethea Group as a consultant (summer 2021) was narrowly focused on my subject matter expertise related to Russia,” she said. “I conducted Russian language translation and provided cultural analysis. When I joined Alethea as an employee (fall 2021) my work was entirely focused on public products: Changes to Alethea’s website, editing public reports, liaising with media, etc.” But that claim contradicts Alethea’s Statement of Work contract with Twitter, which lists her as “Technical Research Director” for work relating to Twitter’s management of misinformation during the 2020 election, and specifically a “retrospective analysis of how then President Trump or other key figures may have violated Twitters [sic] policies, or otherwise leveraged the platform in a way that may have contributed to key events…” Alethea Group founder, Lisa Kaplan, told us that Jankowicz “was never given the title Technical Research Director, that is a reference to a labor category for a contract.” Added Kaplan, “We respect client confidentiality and do not discuss relationships with our customers. In reviewing Nina’s timesheets she did provide support to one client that I cannot disclose, however I can confirm that while she was employed as the Director for External Affairs, Nina never conducted work at Alethea on behalf of Twitter.” When shown the Statement of Work listing her as “Supplier Personnel,” Jankowicz said, “I have never seen this document before. A statement of work is generally a speculative document that informs clients of potential staffing and work plans. They are usually crafted to allow contractors a degree of flexibility in implementation by listing staff even if they are not assigned to a particular project in case they might do future work for that project. I assume this is what happened in this case.” In fact, the Statement of Work between Alethea and Twitter was a formal contract between the two firms, signed by Alethea’s Founder and CEO and Twitter’s Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, and the contract specifies, “Any changes to the above listed Personnel must be approved by Twitter in writing.” There is no record in the Twitter Files of any chance to personnel. Jankowicz added, “Ms. Otis and I were friends and colleagues prior to my short stint there and remain friends and colleagues. Yes, I knew Ms. Otis had worked — emphasis on the past tense — at the CIA. That does not constitute a ‘relationship’ with the intelligence community.” In the acknowledgments to True or False, Otis thanks someone named Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who also blurbs her book, which he calls a “guidebook to learning from the past with actionable solutions to help you save our future."

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“Disinformation will become the next iteration of warfare…the government should identify vulnerable populations” On July 9, 2020, Kaplan records a podcast on “The Next Iteration of Warfare.” She says: — “A lot of the way that this is approached, at least from a defensive perspective, is a lot of the same lessons that we learned from counterterrorism and social media,” she explains. “Where are the ISIS guys in chat rooms trying to recruit people to fly to Raqqa [in Syria]?” — “I'm not going to sit here and tell you guys in your audience the history of warfare, but when we think about the fact that governments have always had a monopoly on the mechanisms needed to conduct war and then, you know, obviously, we have had an emergence of terrorism and this feels like the next iteration of warfare in the sense that these tactics to cause chaos, these tactics to sow discord, they're, they're more diffuse….” — “Nobody is better positioned I think than the United States government to fight disinformation with the wealth of resources and analytic capabilities and intel that the government is able to get about these disinformation campaigns. Like Jankowicz and Otis, Kaplan urges regulation, saying, “The US Government has unmatched capacity to address disinformation, but needs to work towards legislation that will allow it to act in this space.” One year earlier, Kaplan had founded the Alethea Group. “I've always been fortunate to work in organizations where we've been mission-driven and part of a team, and we're all working to accomplish a goal together.”

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I founded Aletheia Group in 2019 after working on a Senate campaign. We developed strategies to combat disinformation and influence operations. This issue is a national security concern, not just political. Aletheia Group consists of diverse experts aiming to tackle this challenge. My background in government consulting and policy helped shape my approach. Disinformation targets voter turnout and candidate choice. Governments, especially the US, have the resources to combat disinformation effectively. We need to shift our approach to disinformation and address it legislatively.

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Speaker 0: I started Alethia Group in May of 2019. And the reason I started it was because of my experience as the digital director on a 20 18, senate campaign. And what was interesting was this was you have to remember, like, put it into context. I know we've been talking about these issues. Almost some days, it feels like ad nauseam since, the 2016 election. But in 2018, this was the first campaign since we really knew what was happening. And so in February of 2018, Robert Mueller's indictment of the Russians who interfered in the US election came out, and it was written in very plain language. It clearly was not you know, I don't think anybody was holding their breath waiting for the Kremlin to extradite these guys. But it laid out the playbook of what happened in 20 16. And so we read that, and we said to ourselves, okay, how are we going to know if this is happening? And once we figure it out, what are we actually going to do about it? And And so we developed a strategy to be able to do things like proactively go out and look for instances of disinformation and create a resilient digital strategy so that we were able to spot any nefarious behavior quicker. And so that we were able to, really build a strategy that was more resilient to being co opted. And then from there, you know, what we saw really, I think, just kept all of us up at night. We came to realize pretty quickly that disinformation and influence operations, it's not a political issue. It's a national security issue that's manifesting itself in politics. And so because of that experience, after the campaign, took some time, and decided to go out and start Alethea Group because I didn't want to sit on the sidelines when, you know, our team had something that we could offer in order to help fight this fight. I feel fortunate to, be able to work with such talented folks who have a broad range of experiences as well. Everyone from former government employees to, former campaign staff. So it's it's an ex and data scientist. And so it's coming together as a really interdisciplinary group that's trying to do our part to solve this big challenge. I think my past experiences were able to help shape help me shape this challenge as a very tactical issue where it's more person versus person. So from my experience in consulting with government to working on the hill, we were able to really take a look at this as a national security issue, just from having worked on the policy side and the communication side of things. I think, also, being able to get tactical and be goal oriented was really critical. You know, I've always been fortunate to work in organizations where we've been mission driven and part of a team, and we're all working to accomplish a goal together. And so to having that perspective and having that background was able to look at disinformation and influence operations as a potential threat to achieving our goals. And looking at it in that sense, So, you know, well, let's use the case of elections, for example. And looking at it at that sense, if you're on a campaign, if you are then your goal is to win on election day. It's to beat the other candidates. And so in order to influence if you're a bad guy, in order to influence that outcome, outcome, you're really targeting 2 decision points. So the first is whether or not somebody's going to show up to vote. Are they going to actually cast their ballot? So that's one decision point that you could potentially target. And it's a decision point that campaigns frankly are trying to target too, but they're trying to get people to show up to vote, to exercise that right. And so that's the first decision point. The second is which candidate an individual would cast their ballot for. I also think being proactive in terms of identifying vulnerable populations and communicating accurate information to them is extremely important. So going back to the where, when, and how to vote, we know that black voters and Latino voters were disproportionately targeted by the Russian government specifically going into the 2016 election. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you guys and your audience the history of warfare. But when we think about the fact that governments have always had a monopoly on the mechanisms needed to conduct war, and then, you know, obviously, we have had an emergence of terrorism. And this feels like the next iteration of warfare in the sense that these tactics to cause chaos, these tactics to sow discord, they're they're more diffuse. I think that as the government context of how government can help fix this problem, nobody is better positioned, I think, than the United States government to fight disinformation. The wealth of resources and analytic capabilities and intel that the government is able to get about these disinformation campaigns, there's just no match capacity. I think we need to shift the way that we think about disinformation though. Because in my opinion, a lot of the way that this is approached, at least from a defensive chat rooms trying to recruit people to fly to Raqqa? You know? Once you find that, you have to wait for them to commit a crime, and then you meet them at the airport, and you get a warrant and all of these things. There's a threshold for when to act. We don't have in the same way thresholds for when the government can act. So this is also a little bit I think of a legislative problem. In my view

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“I am being asked by Schumer’s NSA if we have been in touch with Obama” At 5:22 pm on July 15, 2020, the Twitter account for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted, “I am giving back to the community. All Bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back doubled! If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000.” Similar faked spam tweets had been sent from accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and Elon Musk. Wrote a senior attorney for Twitter, “I am being asked by Schumer's NSA [National Security Advisor] if we have been in touch with Obama... Matt Masterson from DHS called me on my personal cell — didn’t know he had my number. He has been in touch w Biden Campaign… He offered to help in whatever way they can. Offered a forensic analysis.” Two weeks later, the police arrested Graham Ivan Clark, 17, for masterminding the hack. Clark had used a simple “phishing” con to trick Twitter employees into giving him information.

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“One of the world’s best-regarded hackers” On October 13, 2020, a Twitter executive emailed then-CEO Jack Dorsey to say, “Mudge signed.” Dorsey’s hiring of Zatko was big news. Wrote Reuters, “Social media giant Twitter Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world's best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.” Peiter "Mudge" Zatko (Getty Images) “The company on Monday named Peiter Zatko, widely known by his hacker handle Mudge," wrote Reuters, “to the new position of head of security, giving him a broad mandate to recommend changes in structure and practices.”

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“Zatko had engaged with members of US intelligence agencies” Attitudes toward Zatko would be quite different two years later. Zatko turned whistleblower, sued the company, and settled for $7.75 million. He then filed a complaint with the Justice Department, SEC, and FTC, alleging Twitter executives had misled the government, been negligent in protecting user data, and had violated a 2011 consent decree with the FTC. Somebody leaked Zatko’s complaint to the Washington Post, which reached out to Twitter for comment on August 19, 2022. In a shared Google Doc, dated August 21, 2022, called “Comms Statements/Tracking,” Twitter executives fine-tuned the language for responding to the news media about Zatko’s allegations. Buried deep within that discussion was this revelatory sentence: “Without the knowledge or support of management or the Board, Twitter learned that Zatko had engaged with members of US intelligence agencies and sought to enter a formal agreement that would allow him to work with them and provide information to them.”

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FLASHBACK: The US Intelligence Community’s effort to penetrate Twitter On Dec 20, 2019, Elvis Chan, the FBI’s liaison to social media companies, emailed a Twitter executive. “My colleagues at the Fort had a query for you.” “The Fort” is IC slang for Fort Meade, Maryland, where the National Security Agency (NSA), the IC agency focused on spying through signals intelligence, is located. Chan’s NSA colleagues wanted to know if Twitter would please change a security policy so that NSA could better use Twitter data. The request immediately raised red flags from Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth. “My sense is that a call directly with the IC on this isn’t a great idea,” said Roth. “We’re threading a needle on this one—where we both want to keep law enforcement and the IC engaged on election integrity issues while maintaining our strong anti-surveillance stance on the data front.” The request bothered others at Twitter. “We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC to push us to share more information and change our API policies,” said Carlos Monje, Twitter’s Director of Policy, in response to Roth. But the IC’s "sustained effort" may have been more coordinated than it appeared.

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“I'd recommend Alethea group” On January 7, 2021, the day after the Capitol Hill riot, Zatko makes his first big recommendation to Twitter executives: hire the Alethea Group. “I feel an external investigation may be quite valuable,” said Zatko over the company’s Slack messaging system. “I'd recommend Alethea group for the disinformation angle.” Twitter authorized Zatko to do so. A few weeks later Zatko pitched Twitter’s legal team on hiring Alethea for a January 6 focused project. “As folks can understand,” Zatko wrote on February 24, 2021,”there's a lot still going on around Jan 6th and the 2020 election in general. Alethea is a boutique consultancy that specializes on disinformation and counter-messaging operations. They have been working with myself and Yoel [Roth].”

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CIA, In-Q-Tel, And Alethea Ted Schlein is partner at Ballistic Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, the legendary Silicon Valley VC firm. In 2022, Schlein led a $10 million Series A investment in Alethea Group for Ballistic, and sits on its board. Kaplan says she met Schlein that same year. Schlein is also a member of the Board of Trustees of In-Q-Tel, or IQT, which is the CIA’s mission-driven venture capital firm. In 2022, IQT published a summary report describing its “Disinformation Workshop.” The report recommended many activities similar to those Alethea has offered, including “Track the confluence of bad narratives.” A full one-third of IQT investments were secret as of 2016, according to the Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cias-venture-capital-firm-like-its-sponsor-operates-in-the-shadows-1472587352 The Journal also reported that Schlein had at least one connection to a firm in which IQT invested. And that was over seven years ago. “I do not know Zatko, Jankowicz or Otis. Lisa is the CEO of Alethea and I serve on her board of directors,” Schlein told us. He added that he is not aware of any relationship between Alethea and the IC and that he has no operational role. When asked if IQT had funded Alethea Group, Schlein said, “This is a question either the company or InQTel should answer, not me.” “I get the feeling that Alethea is a byproduct of Ted Schlein,” a high-tech entrepreneur told us, “and the CEO is merely a titular head….Without meaningful experience, it's not clear to me how [Lisa Kaplan] received $10m in a series A round.” In March 2022, the Department of Homeland Security made Schlein a member of its advisory council.

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“Does this affect our approach to Trump?” Another Alethea analyst is Patrick Conlon. From 2019 to 2022, Conlon was Twitter’s Global Lead of Threat Intelligence, where he ran Twitter’s “Threat Disruption” group. According to his bio, Conlon “also guided the process of selecting investigations for public disclosure in the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium.” Before that, from 2013 to 2019, Conlon worked for the Defense Department as an intelligence analyst and linguist. According to Conlon’s LinkedIn profile, he speaks eight languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese. The Twitter Files show Conlon urging more censorship on multiple occasions within Twitter. After Yoel Roth tells Conlon that “Jack just approved repeat offender for civic integrity, Conlon replies, “Progress! Does this affect our approach to Trump, who I think that we publicly said had one remaining strike? Or does the incitement to violence aspect change that calculus?” Shortly after, Conlon celebrates efforts to identify January 6 protesters. Conlon messages Roth to say, “One thing that’s made me smile today is that people in DC are getting on Bumble and other dating services to chat with protesters/rioters to gather info and send it to law enforcement.” READ MORE: TWITTER FILES, PART 4 The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7

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“It would be almost impossible for us to refuse to turn them over to Congress” On March 11, three weeks after Zatko urged his colleagues to hire Alethea Group, he emailed his colleagues to express his concerns about Twitter's legal department holding up the release of Alethea Group's work product. Twitter Deputy Counsel Jim Baker explains that he wants Alethea’s analytical products to be owned by Twitter’s law firm, so that Congress cannot subpoena them in the future. “Our goal here,” says Baker, “is to enable the company to retain control via the attorney-client privilege of any reports, slide decks, interview summaries, or other materials that Alethea produces to us in the event that we receive congressional or other subpoenas or document requests (such as in connection with civil lawsuits against the company).” “Right now,” stresses Baker, “our outside counsel assesses that if we do nothing, the Alethea materials would not be privileged and it would be almost impossible for us to refuse to turn them over to Congress, the executive branch, or a civil litigant.” Baker’s supervisor agreed. The document “creates risk,” he writes. What are the risks? Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop, the 2020 elections, and the 2021 Capitol riots. Later events would prove that Baker, his boss, and the Jenner & Block attorney were all right to be worried.

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“We can draw a straight line… between the initial ‘Stop the Steal’ narratives and organizing to what ended up happening on the 6th.” Alethea’s assessment of Twitter reflects the view of its CEO, Kaplan, that online misinformation leads to violence. On March 11, 2021, the same day Baker flags the risk of working with Alethea without its law firm, Kaplan speaks on a panel at Harvard University’s Berkman School. While there, she blames misinformation on social media for the January 6 riot, and urges greater censorship. Kaplan says Alethea Group flags misinformation for social media companies so it can be censored. She says “one option” is to “call the social media platforms and they say, ‘social media misinformation for the January 6 riot,’” but that Alethea does something better, which is to use “early detection” to “catch narratives when they start and we’re able to then track them and understand how they may be influencing individuals and seeking to change individuals behavior.” January 6 was “an insurrection attempt,” says Kaplan, “We can draw a straight line from some of the narratives that were happening in March, saying that the election would be rigged, that there would be political violence…. The throughline you can draw between the initial ‘Stop the Steal’ narratives and organizing to what ended up happening on the 6th.” She says Alethea will recommend filing lawsuits against people and “seek damages” of a punitive form. The goal is to stop opponents from “narrative building” In response to our request for comment, Kaplan told us, “I worked in the United States Senate for a period of time. I have never worked directly for a US government agency, including the Intelligence Community. As this is true for both my time in college and after college, I suppose my relationship with the US Intelligence Community – or lack thereof – remains unchanged.” Kaplan did not disclose to us how many contracts Alethea has had with US government agencies, writing, “We hold client confidentiality in the highest regard and do not disclose our customer relationships.”

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Many people overlook their options in dealing with misinformation on social media. Early detection is key to tracking and countering harmful narratives. Legal action can be taken against profit-driven disinformation networks. Fact-checking alone may not change beliefs, so building counter narratives is crucial. Our organization helps detect, assess, and mitigate the impact of misinformation to prevent future issues. The recent events at the US Capitol highlight the real-world consequences of online disinformation. Translation: It is important to detect and counter harmful narratives early to prevent misinformation from causing real-world harm. Legal action can be taken against profit-driven disinformation networks, and building counter narratives is essential. Our organization helps organizations address the impact of misinformation to prevent future issues. The recent events at the US Capitol show the consequences of online misinformation.

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Speaker 0: Think that a lot of times people don't realize how many options they actually have. So for example, if you're able to detect what what a lot of people are doing right now is they're analyzing something once it's already gotten onto Twitter, onto Facebook, onto YouTube, for example. And it's on one of these mainstream platforms, and they call the social media platforms, and they say, please take it down. That's one option. But if you've gotten to that point in a lot of ways, it may already be too late. So what we do is we practice early detection. So we tried we catch narratives when they start, and we're able to then track them and understand how they may be influencing individuals, and seeking to change individuals behavior. We analyze on the network level. And what that does is it enables us to take more options. So for example, let's take these for profit disinformation networks. Well, you know, if they're making a profit off of, a potential organization, there could be an opportunity to seek damages. If they're misappropriating intellectual property, such as your name, your likeness, trademarkable or patentable or copyrighted material, there are legal options that organizations can take to seek recourse. If there is, an opportunity to do counter messaging, And I'm not talking about fact checking and our experience fact checking while it's helpful in creating a paper of record or it's helpful in giving something to point to to set the the story straight. It's not sufficient. And here's why. The people who are choosing to believe a narrative aren't necessarily going to believe something, you know, salacious about it. It's changed their mind and say they no longer believe something that's totally salacious about you and confirms their biases biases about you just because you're the one that said it isn't true. So we're talking about really counter narrative building. You know, and that can be done in an ethical way by creating a greater understanding around an individual or an organization. So, what we do is we help through the entire process. So we detect what's happening. We assess whether or not it's having an impact on an organization's goal, and then we help to mitigate any potential impacts. The idea being that we can solve a lot of problems before they become a real issue or a challenge for an organization. One of the things that we saw unfortunately, and it's very unfortunate that it took, essentially an insurrection attempt at the US Capitol to really catapult this conversation. And there are a variety of research organizations, including ours that had been, beating this drum for several years now. And so people were saying, oh, it's it's just a meme, but no, it can really, you know, disinformation really can lead to offline harms. We can draw a straight line from some of the narratives that were happening in March saying that the election would be rigged, that there would be political violence, that people needed to start preparing for the worst to what happened on January 6th.

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“Current State Assessment” Alethea’s “Current State Assessment” of Twitter is scathing. The analysis stresses that the social media platform’s Trust and Safety executives were well-meaning but also overwhelmed and unskilled. They didn’t have the resources they needed, it says. The company was always on the defense when it came to misinformation, whether from “QAnon” or “coronavirus misinformation,” it claims. As a result, “historically marginalized groups” are vulnerable. Alethea’s analysts conclude that the underlying problem was that “Twitter does not have a traditional threat intelligence capacity that would better position the company to be proactive on misinformation and disinformation.” Twitter, in particular, lacks “geographic expertise and foreign language capabilities.” Another serious problem, says Alethea, is that “Twitter is not fully taking advantage of” its partnerships, such as with Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the only non-media partner Alethea names. Previous Twitter Files and Facebook Files show that the DHS had asked SIO, which is led by a “former” CIA Fellow, Renee DiResta, and three other organizations to lead a “public-private” partnership to urge greater social media censorship of alleged misinformation relating to the 2020 elections and Covid. “Neither I nor Alethea have a relationship with SIO,” Kaplan said. READ ALETHEA’S “CURRENT STATE ASSESSMENT” HERE: https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2024/5/23/twitter-files-cia-key-documents

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“More vigorous content moderation” Before Alethea shares its full recommendations, Zatko pushes for more government-linked censorship. On March 24, 2021, Zatko emailed a 12-page report, “Recommendations to the Biden Administration On Regulating Disinformation and Other Harmful Content on Social Media,” to his colleagues. “The organizations and people behind this recommendation,” Zatko explains, “have the connection [sic] to get this in front of the right people in the administration.” The report is co-authored by Aspen Institute’s Vivian Schiller, who led the "pre-bunking" of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and Hamilton68 hoax author Clint Watts, and is published by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. The report calls for “more vigorous content moderation,” for the Biden administration to “work with social media companies to develop industry-wide standards” to respond to “known or suspected disinformation operations, whether domestic or foreign,” and for “altering financial incentives for platforms that fail to address the harms.” The Biden "Administration should work with Congress to create such a regulatory body, possibly as a new Digital Bureau within the Federal Trade Commission..." The report calls for new standards to be modeled after ESG and include “fines for violations” of “industry-wide standards” that would then be used to fund “credible local news outlets.” The report calls for social media platforms to pay for news content. MORE ON VIVIAN SCHILLER, ASPEN: MORE ON HAMILTON68 HOAX: READ “RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ON REGULATING DISINFORMATION” HERE: https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2024/5/23/twitter-files-cia-key-documents

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31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for @nytimes @wapo and others

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We created the website Hamilton 68 to track Russian accounts. There are Russian bots spreading misinformation on our website.

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Speaker 0: You and your team, you guys created a website. Hamilton 60 8. My colleagues and I, we tracked Russian accounts. That's some bull So there literally right now, there are Russian bots according to your website that are putting this out into the world. Is that correct? That's bull

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"Expand formal and informal partnerships” with “Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy, or PayPal." On April 20, 2021, a Twitter attorney emails a 32-page document titled “Alethea Group Recommendations.” It says, “Twitter has an opportunity to become the industry leader.” How? At the top of the list is “Develop and expand threat intelligence capabilities.” This starts with hiring an “outside vendor to provide consistent threat intelligence feeds on priority markets or topics for Twitter, such as on COVID-19 misinformation, QAnon, violent hate groups, or foreign government-operated IO.” Why an outside vendor? Because “Outside vendors often have access to more unique datasets, language capabilities, and geographic expertise,” Alethea reasons. ”This approach is consistent with Twitter’s platform peers, such as Facebook, and to a lesser extent, YouTube’s new analytic team focused on Sophisticated Threat Actors.” The second major recommendation is to “Expand formal and informal partnerships” with “domain hosting companies, digital ad providers, and financial platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy, or PayPal.” Why? So that Twitter can respond to “threat actors in a more holistic fashion.” In other words, Alethea is proposing that Twitter lead an effort to organize all other social media companies, e-commerce companies, and Internet Service Providers, to de-platform, de-monetize, and de-person disfavored individuals. But would Twitter executives still make their own decisions about content moderation? Yes, affirms Alethea, but only after outsourcing “decision-making processes when it comes to disinformation and misinformation or a major security incident.” Alethea also proposes developing systems to place content from purveyors of “misinformation and disinformation” in a “void” so that users can’t see or share it. “This could include not allowing content to load from their websites, sending users to an error page, having adversaries inadvertently (and unknowingly) tweet dog pictures, quinoa recipes, or sports scores.” According to Alethea, “Threat intelligence could still be gathered within these artificial environments and used to inform future action against threat actors.” Other recommendations from Alethea are for Twitter to“create a more diverse team,” expand reporting options for users, and “invest in a program that will teach news literacy to high school students and college students.” Over email, Nina Jankowicz stressed to us that she had never seen the Alethea recommendations. “I never had contact with or access to Alethea customers or products. This was by design so as to protect customer confidential information. My role was entirely externally-facing.” When we asked what motivated her to pursue a relationship with Twitter, Kaplan wrote, “We respect client confidentiality and cannot confirm any client relationships. I have not advocated for censorship and your allegations are false.” “I have never and would never ask a social media platform to censor,” Kaplan told us. “I have flagged inauthentic coordinated behavior or what current X owner Mr. Elon Musk refers to as “the spam bots” which he seeks to “defeat” as they violate the terms of service for his and other platforms, as well as threats of violence against individuals. I have not urged social media companies to censor and that allegation is categorically false.” Kaplan told us she was unaware that Zatko had repeatedly advocated for Twitter to hire Alethea. READ ALETHEA’S “RECOMMENDATIONS” HERE: https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2024/5/23/twitter-files-cia-key-documents

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Alethea In, Zatko Out Alethea proposed that Twitter outsource content management and moderation to it or to one of its allied organizations, perhaps SIO. All of this might seem routine—consultants frequently use “analytical products” to sell future work. Except in this case, Alethea was effectively urging Twitter to outsource its content management to IC intermediaries. Twitter executives might have responded to Alethea’s proposal with shock and offense. After all, the firm, led by individuals tied to the IC and promoting censorship, had disparaged Twitter’s employees in a way that Twitter’s lawyers thought was a risk to the company. And Alethea was essentially proposing that it take over the decision-making and management of content moderation, which is at the core of what the company does. Instead, Twitter doubled down on Alethea. On July 11 and 12, 2021, Twitter’s Privacy team gives Alethea Group access to Twitter’s data from January 6. On August 5, 2021, an attorney informs the Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, that Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer, Vijaya Gadde, had hired Jenner & Block “to conduct a retrospective review of the conversation occurring on Twitter during the attack on the Capitol on January 6. They are also reviewing our election work that is tied to the insurrection as well.” Two weeks later, Twitter finalizes a Statement of Work (“SOW”) contract with Alethea. Listed as “Technical Research Director” is Nina Jankowicz. The proposal consists of Alethea writing a 2020 Election Report, and list as an "option" item working to “provide a retrospective analysis of how then President Trump or other key figures may have violated Twitter’s policies, or otherwise leveraged the platform in a way that may have contributed to key events.” Then, on August 23, 2021, Twitter fires Zatko.

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“We have to trust the rules and the systems that are governing us.” On February 21, 2022, at Colby College, Alethea’s Kaplan again promotes an aggressive censorship vision, including punishments for people who spread misinformation, and says “we have to trust” election rules. “I think we can get to the point where the government's doing everything that we think it can do within our comfort zone as a democracy,” she says. “But I think that we will need private companies to step up.” Kaplan says free speech threatens democracy. “I continue to be concerned about what it means that that segment of the population doesn't buy into our democratic system. And so putting politics aside when we're talking about democracy, we have to trust it. We have to trust the rules and the systems that are governing us.” Kaplan says 20% of Alethea’s business was with the government. Kaplan also says Alethea Group sometimes donates time to social media companies. “Sometimes we do catch things out in the wild and we'll bring that to companies. We don't, like, get paid for that when we do that. But, like, we'll do it if it's something that's pretty egregious that they think they should be aware of.” Kaplan points out the threat of election misinformation to political instability in Brazil. A few months later, in July 2022, Twitter hires Alethea to “Assist Counsel with fact gathering and analysis of misinformation/disinformation threats related to the 2022 Brazil election.” On August 4, 2022, Roth tells a colleague that Alethea is “providing services to us at a more than 50% discount over rack rate (a savings of approximately $50K for the specific cases here)...” for a Brazil misinformation analysis.

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The speaker emphasizes the importance of private companies in combating misinformation online. They express concern over the impact of disinformation on democratic institutions, particularly highlighting the refusal to accept election results. The speaker warns of the global spread of rigged election narratives by autocrats, leading to a loss of faith in democracy. They stress the need to trust democratic systems despite imperfections and changing dynamics. The speaker urges vigilance in countering asymmetric warfare through the weaponization of information.

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Speaker 0: I think we can get to the point where the government's doing everything that we think it can do within our comfort zone as a democracy, but I think that we will need private companies to step up. We work primarily, I would say, 80% of the time with, private sector clients, 20% of the time with, like, US government clients, to be able to take a look at what's happening online and find the networks that are needing to spread mis and disinformation, and manipulating media, and who the actors are. Sometimes we do catch things out in the wild, and we'll bring that to companies. We don't, like, get paid for that when we do that, but, like, we'll do it if it's something that's, like, pretty egregious that they think they should be aware of, or it's something that we'll frankly just, like, triage ourselves, whether it's getting it to the right person in law enforcement, whether it's flagging it for the social media platforms to be like, hey, you should take a look at this. Put former president Trump and his policies and what you thought about his presidency aside. I think that by not accepting the election results by, I think that that was incredibly damaging to our democratic institutions. I think that we don't know the full effects yet of disinformation and its impact to on our ability to govern in a democratic system. I think we'll find out a lot more as it comes to 2022 and 20 24. You know, even though he's not on the major social media platforms who have made the calculation that he's broken too many of their rules, He's still influential with a certain segment of the population who still, you know, hangs on to his every word. I continue to be concerned about what it means if that segment of the population doesn't buy into our democratic system. And so putting politics aside, when we're talking about democracy, we have to trust it. We have to trust the rules and the systems that are governing us. And are they perfect? No. Are they always kind of changing and ebbing and flowing? Yes. But I I do think that it is something that is deeply concerning. I think it's completely outside of the norm to not accept an election, result, and I am concerned about the damage that has potentially done. We've been seeing rigged election narratives since long before the 2020 elections. When it comes to how that's impacting democracy worldwide, we're now seeing Bolsonaro, for example, Brazil has a big election coming up, talking about it as though it's a rigged election. Autocrats are trading the playbook with each other, and they're implementing it pretty quickly because they don't care about things like ethics and norms and rule of law. I think that's something that we have to contend with, is that this is asymmetric warfare. People are weaponizing information so that we lose faith in democracy more broadly.

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“Zatko was aware of this issue, having learned about it separately through a contact at the CIA…” Recall that, on August 21, 2022, Twitter executives wrote talking points to respond to Zatko’s allegations, and one of them was that “Zatko had engaged with members of US intelligence agencies and sought to enter a formal agreement that would allow him to work with them and provide information to them.” Fast-forward five weeks to October 1, 2022, and a Twitter attorney at WilmerHale emails draft talking points for Twitter to use with the Department of Justice in addressing Zatko’s claims. One section addresses a claim by Zatko that Twitter received “specific information” that Twitter employees were “working on behalf of another particular foreign intelligence agency.” Writes Twitter’s attorney, “He’s wrong here too.” The FBI had contacted Twitter about an employee “who potentially had contact with an individual with a possible connection to China. There was no indication that this individual was in fact a foreign agent with ties to a foreign government, and the apparent person of interest was the contact of the Twitter employee, not the Twitter employee.” Then, the attorney noted, Twitter’s head of Corporate Security “was informed by the member of Zatko’s team that Zatko was aware of this issue, having learned about it separately through a contact at the CIA…”

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Who is Zatko, really? Zatko is a longstanding contractor and employee of the federal government. He gave training seminars to the NSA and NASA in 1999 and perhaps earlier. Two books, Andy Greenberg’s 2013 This Machine Kills Secrets and Joseph Menn’s 2019 Cult of the Dead Cow, describe in detail how the IC and Defense Department have financed and directed Zatko’s work for over a quarter-century. Zatko was part of a group of hackers, or computer tinkerers, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The members of the group, “L0pht,” had access to early, expensive, and scarce computers and other cutting-edge technological innovations, including a motor-driven satellite dish and multiple computer systems in 1998. They testified to the US Senate that same year (see excerpts in the video below). In 2000, Zatko changed the name of L0pht to @stake. Four years earlier he had joined another hacker collective, the “Cult of the Dead Cow.” Members of both groups worked for the CIA, NSA, and DARPA directly or indirectly as contractors for firms like BBN. In 2006, @stake’s CEO Chris Darby became the CEO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA VC firm. Another @stake employee became its chief information security officer. Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos, who helped run the Stanford Internet Observatory’s censorship effort with former CIA Fellow Diresta for DHS, also worked for @stake. Zatko was Technical Director for National Intelligence Research and Applications for BBN, a contractor for the Defense Department, from 2004 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013, Zatko worked for DARPA to prevent “insider threats” using a threat model, Zatko said, “largely derived from counter-intelligence/counter-espionage (CI/CE) models.” Zatko’s work for DARPA focused heavily on ways to prevent government employees and contractors from leaking information, including ways of directly and invasively monitoring them physically. From 2013 to 2015, in response to Edward Snowden’s revelations of mass surveillance, Zatko worked at Google to engineer software. Afterward, Zatko started advising Sen. Mark Warner, one of the Senate’s leading proponents of social media censorship. During the same period Zatko was helping track whistleblowers for DARPA, President Barack Obama was pursuing more leakers for prosecution than all previous presidential administrations.

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Over the past decade, we, the L0pht group, have expertise in various tech fields. We created Loftcrack to expose Windows NT password flaws. Our interests range from hardware design to tempest monitoring. There are concerns about GPS system security and satellite manipulation. Protecting against high energy RF is possible with metal enclosures. Setting up separate secure systems for sensitive information is costly but necessary. Multiple government agencies already implement this practice to safeguard classified data.

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Speaker 0: For the past 4 years, the 7 of us has been touted as just about everything from the hacker conglomerate, the hacker think tank, the hangout place for the top US hackers, network security experts and a consumer watch group. In reality, all we really are is just curious. For well over the past decade, the 7 of us have independently learned and worked in the fields of satellite communications, cryptography, operating system design and implementation, computer and network security, electronics Speaker 1: and telecommunications. I'm actively working on Loftcrack, a program that we've created to exploit the weaknesses in Windows NT's password security, which uses cryptography to, secure the passwords, but we have found vulnerabilities in their implementation. This program has been extremely well received by military, government, and corporate security groups who use it to test their own passwords for weaknesses. Speaker 2: While some of the L0pht members concentrate on software programming, I work with hardware design and implementation of electronic circuits. My interests include embedded system design, surveillance and counter surveillance tools and wireless data transmissions. My current research project involves experimentation with the monitoring and eavesdropping of stray electromagnetic fields from computer terminals, otherwise known as tempest monitoring. Using low cost electronic equipment, one can capture the contents of computer screens from more than 200 meters away, possibly gaining passwords and other sensitive information. NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs to try and raise their level of awareness as to the vulnerabilities. Speaker 3: There's some way around to, though, could they get into the GPS system and actually relocate some of those satellites slightly, which would throw off all that, screw up all your information that you're getting. Is that possible? Speaker 4: Traditionally, the military has been very good about, authentication methods on telemetry and command and control systems. So I I think you'd be more, worried about, setting up, you know, 2.X gigahertz jammer rather than somebody actually moving a satellite around or colliding them or, Speaker 3: you know jam is gonna relocate it because of weak signal. Right. Yeah. Speaker 4: Or it could be hidden in. Speaker 5: Comment here. On August 21st, I believe it is 1999, a lot of the receivers in sale, they have a, year 2000 type problem where they run out of bits, and it resets to January 1980. Just thought I'd toss that one in. There is, Speaker 2: documentation on that, and it is possible to shut down machines with the high energy RF. Protecting against it has been done. It is done and it's fairly simple. You can basically enclose something in in a giant metal box, which will prevent the out you know the outside RF. I don't know if that's done a lot inside the government. Some of the military, computers need to be tempest proof. Speaker 0: If I Speaker 3: may, I I think she'd be grounded. Yeah. Thank you. We alluded this a while ago. Mister Newman was here about, would it be possible to set up a whole different system for defense, for intelligence matters, for CIA, for NSA, for, people doing very highly classified work that we don't want out? Would there be an advantage to us, funding and setting up a whole separate system? And how long would it be invulnerable if we did such a thing? Or is it worth the effort? It'd be very expensive to do it. How would we would it be worth doing? One of Speaker 0: the things that was said earlier was there are no easy answers. Maybe not any answers at all, but what I believe is it's there are answers. They're just quite painful. Yes. I think that is one of the ways to do it. Several of the agencies within the government currently do that. It is very expensive. If you have extremely sensitive information, you do not trust it with other networks that are less sensitive, that are less trusted.

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“There are deep cover people who are known to be CIA and who go to DARPA and then wherever.” Pieter Mudge Zatko (Getty Images) We asked a senior intelligence analyst who has worked for decades within both the US military and the IC if the Alethea-Twitter operation looked like a “clandestine information operation.” The person laughed. “You just laid it out. DARPA fits the pattern. There are deep-cover people who are known to be CIA and who go to DARPA. They have assumed a mantle that they are no longer aligned in that world. They try to portray themselves as separate and apart. That works to their favor. But they are still inside.” Front groups and intermediaries, or “cut-outs,” are the bread and butter of clandestine operations and have been since World War II. “We front monies through different shell companies and nobody knows there are governments behind them,” the person said. “That’s a lot of what we did in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Arab Spring… with disinformation, censoring, and manipulating.” Given this context, Zatko’s efforts to share information with intelligence agencies and bring in the IC-linked Alethea Group may have been a deliberate operation by the IC to infiltrate and control Twitter.

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“Twitter can’t afford to be one of the world’s most influential websites.” The news media lavished praise on Zatko and used his denunciation to demand for greater government regulation of the company. “Twitter can’t afford to be one of the world’s most influential websites,” declared the Washington Post. “The audit report by the Alethea Group, a company that fights disinformation threats,” wrote the Post approvingly, “confirms that sense, depicting a company overwhelmed by well-orchestrated disinformation campaigns and short on engineering tools and human firepower while facing threats on par with vastly better-financed Google and Facebook.” Other advocates of censorship chimed in to support Zatko. Twitter “has this outsized role in public discourse but it’s still staffed like a midsize platform,” said Graham Brookie, who ran DHS’s mass censorship program with Stamos and DiResta of Stanford Internet Observatory. “They struggle to do more than one thing at one time.” In an internal Atlantic Council email sent on July 21 2020, Brookie wrote to a colleague to say, "I know the Council has a number of efforts on broad policy around the elections, but we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA and are in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo, IO, etc.”

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New Documents Reveal US Department Of Homeland Security Conspiracy To Violate First Amendment And Interfere In Elections Emails released by the U.S. House of Representatives, when combined with the Twitter Files, reveal a sweeping and secretive effort by Stanford and DHS…

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“The Big Boss” In her April 2023 testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Nina Jankowicz described herself as a low- to mid-level official at the Department of Homeland Security who was thrown under the bus in the wake of a bipartisan backlash against the “Disinformation Governance Board” that she was nominated to lead. But others treated Jankowicz as though she were more senior than that. Four years ago, in February 2020, former Congressperson Jane Harman, the CEO of the influential US government-funded Wilson Center, referred three times to Jankowicz as “the big boss.” Later Harman called Jankowicz the “ringleader.” “Jane has a very colorful way of speaking,” said Jankowicz about Harman’s statements. “This is her way of acknowledging the work I did to organize that event, not ‘for my sweeping vision for government censorship and disinformation.’” From 2022 to April 2024, Jankowicz worked for the Center for Information Resilience, which receives funding from US, UK, and Australian governments. The work was an extension of what she has done since 2013, when Jankowicz worked as a Program Officer for the National Endowment for Democracy’s National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Eastern Europe. Her LinkedIn says she ”Managed six active projects supporting democracy assistance to Russia and Belarus.” Independent journalists, analysts, and most in the IC understand that the NDI and its broader organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, are US government-funded intermediaries or “cut-outs” working alongside the CIA. This relationship has been well-understood for over three decades: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/ Jankowicz disagrees. “This is a false assertion,” she told us over email, “and — during my time at NDI — it was an assertion most frequently made by the Kremlin. The only linkage I am aware of between the U.S. intelligence community and NDI is that they both broadly support U.S. foreign policy goals.” Jankowicz told us that she’s "vehemently opposed to censorship." “My first piece of published work as Disinformation Fellow at the Wilson Center was this report, which explores the many antidemocratic pitfalls of regulating disinformation. The opening of the paper states clearly: ‘While the American response to online disinformation has been marked by partisanship and gridlock, at least 50 other nations have taken action against it, often to the detriment of human rights and democratic standards.’ (Emphasis added).” But Jankowicz also acknowledged to us that she supported social media censorship of COVID-19 posts (see video below.) “Yes,” she said over email yesterday, “I commended the social media companies for removing posts that claimed that COVID-19 was something Brazilians should not treat seriously at the height of a deadly pandemic that ended up claiming 700,000+ Brazilian lives. “I still believe that was the right decision,” she said, “and it was the platforms’ decision to make. When we sign up to use social platforms, whether we are presidents or private citizens, we agree to their terms of service, including that they may moderate content.” In February 2020, Jankowicz urged global social media “regulation” by governments and touted the “International Grand Committee” [on Disinformation]’s work to find principles of regulation. The goal of the Wilson Center meeting was to tout what other governments, including France and Brazil, were doing to demand censorship and suggest that the US was lagging behind. At that meeting, Sen. Mark Warner advocated global social media regulation through a military alliance framework, saying, “We can’t do this [fight misinformation] without — well, even beyond — the Five Eyes. And even well beyond NATO.” On April 7, 2020, Jankowicz once again praised social media censorship and agreed with Anya Prusa, who praised social media companies for “removing posts” by Brazil’s president. The US IC, specifically the FBI, has advised Brazil on censorship. The TWITTER FILES - CIA offer more proof that Jankowicz got over her skis in the "information war." And in that sense, she was a victim, but of passion. Indeed, it was only thanks to Jankowicz’s recent efforts to rehabilitate her image that we discovered her role in the Alethea Group, the firm’s links to the CIA, and Zatko’s work for intelligence agencies. Without Jankowicz, the whole episode would have been lost to history.

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Thank you to everyone for their work in the Science and Technology, Innovation Program. Nina Jankiewicz, the Wilson Center's disinformation fellow, discussed efforts in Brazil to combat disinformation. Social media platforms are taking action to remove false information, aligning with international standards. Setting common standards is crucial for effective regulation in combating disinformation globally.

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Speaker 0: Thank you to everyone in our Science and Technology, Innovation Program for your work putting this together, especially the big boss Nina Jankiewicz, our disinformation fellow and ringleader. Finally, big boss Nina Jankiewicz is the Wilson Center's disinformation fellow. Her book, How to Lose the Information War, will be published this year. Nina has previously advised Ukraine on strategic communications through the Fulbright Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Pretty darn impressive. Would you like to say something else? Jesus Christ. I I thought I asked you a question, and I thought what I had planned to do, sort of, was ask everybody about, the Warner speech, then ask everyone a specific question, which I did ask you. Speaker 1: Not congressman Malone yet. Not a second time. Speaker 0: I didn't second time. It's okay. I thought I did. Okay. Well, Joes, this is what happens when Speaker 1: I just wanna make Brazil's a very Speaker 0: interesting experience Speaker 1: that I wanna make sure Speaker 0: I'm here here No. I didn't ask you. It's my fault. Thank you. No problem. Nina, it's okay. Why she's the big boss. Speaker 2: As a result, what we've seen within Brazil is a broad effort to contain the spread of disinformation and to in fact restrict Bolsonaro's ability to create and implement policies that are based in disinformation or inaccurate unsubstantiated facts. So first of all, the media in Brazil has been working diligently to fact check the president's statements and statements from his allies. Speaker 1: We saw Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter actually have been removing posts by Bolsonaro that run counter to the World Health Organization's recommendations to self isolate. We're seeing the social media companies take more action than we've seen in the past, and I I commend them for that. I hope that they are able to, to rally around that sort of spirit, in the future because a lot of the electoral decisions we make, for instance, that can be affected by disinformation are having a direct effect, on people's livelihoods and actually their health right now as well. So it's all connected. I I think the most important thing that Senator Warner said was about international standards. Right now, we're at a bowling alley that has no bumpers at it, and we're not particularly good at bowling at the moment. And we need to set those bumpers because even if you you go you know, Facebook has its own set of terms. If we have our colleagues from Twitter, or other platforms in the room, everybody's referring to these phenomenon differently. And we're not speaking the same language, and certainly Congress is not speaking that same language either. And that's one of the goals of of why we've brought these legislators from around the world here today. So I think, setting setting those standards is is a key important goal as we move forward in regulation. Absolutely.

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First Amendment vs. “Information War” The paradigm promoted by Jankowicz, Harman, Zatko, Kaplan, Schlein, Otis and many others within the IC and its cut-outs is fundamentally a military communications paradigm, not a peaceful civilian one. The peaceful civilian approach to “fighting misinformation” is free speech, as enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The three of us and hundreds of other journalists, authors, and artists last year described our peaceful approach to fighting misinformation in "The Westminster Declaration." https://westminsterdeclaration.org Free people in free societies do not and should not want their governments waging “hybrid warfare,” “information warfare,” or “information operations” against them. They do not want the leaders of their IC agencies demonizing and seeking to de-platform or de-monetize domestic voices, no matter how annoying or wrong those voices may be. The American people and the American courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly sided with the strongest protections of free speech in the world. Whether or not the CIA or another IC agency controlled the Alethea Group, it behaved as either a front group or an intermediary of the IC. It could be that individuals in the Alethea Group with ties to the IC were acting more through a common ideology, or in service of a political party. We may never know. What we do know is that their goals and behaviors are unAmerican in spirit and unconstitutional in the law. CIA and US military employees or contractors must never spy upon or run clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil. That so many of them apparently did so in order to bring America’s most influential social media company under the authority of the IC is a dark moment in American history. https://westminsterdeclaration.org

The Westminster Declaration Journalists, authors, and others unite against global censorship, which threatens our free speech rights. We confront labels like "misinformation" and warn of a 'Censorship-Industrial Complex' involving governments and tech firms. The Westminster Declaration declares free speech as a human right that is central to democracy. westminsterdeclaration.org

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CODA Unfortunately, the dark moment is not behind us. Governments around the world are cracking down on free speech more than they have at any other time since Twitter was founded in 2006. In 2019, Twitter published an internal report, “Content Regulation: Global Regulatory Update,” on demands by various governments for more censorship. “The challenges these types of content laws present are numerous,” company executives wrote. “The laws may, as applied to specific situations, challenge Twitter’s longstanding commitment to increasing conversation and dialogue on the platform.” Government censorship demands have become increasingly severe in just the last five years: — The 2019 report barely mentions Brazil, noting that its data privacy law "will be subject to ongoing discussions..." Today, Brazil is demanding that disfavored journalists and politicians be de-platformed and blocked entirely, at a global level, from social media platforms. https://t.co/gADT5aawFc — The 2019 report talks about the French government demanding that posts be taken down; last week, the French government blocked a social media platform entirely in a foreign territory. https://t.co/v9adq5Q3iF — The 2019 report talks about the demands of the “Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act” law in Australia; last month, the Australian government demanded a global ban on such material, not just in Australia. https://t.co/zOCcP8Rxgk For many years to come, powerful voices in Western societies will likely continue to demand more censorship by social media platforms. From now on, the CIA, military, intelligence, and other security agencies must not be among them. /END

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TWITTER FILES - BRAZIL Brazil is engaged in a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice named Alexandre de Moraes. De Moraes has thrown people in jail without trial for things they posted on social media. He has demanded the removal of users from social…

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French President @EmmanuelMacron says he supports free speech, but he doesn't. His government blocked an entire social media platform in an overseas territory. It's a blatantly illegal act done without justification. Macron has dragged the West one step closer to totalitarianism.

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CIA RECRUIT IS PURSUING GLOBAL INTERNET CENSORSHIP AS "E-SAFETY" CZAR IN AUSTRALIA American–born Julie Inman Grant is a key architect of the multigovernmental “Global Online Safety Regulators Network” to censor the speech that politicians and government bureaucrats fear. X…

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Elon Musk is facing criticism for not removing a stabbing video from his platform globally. An Australian senator called for Musk to be jailed, sparking a debate on global internet censorship. Australia's top internet censor, Julie Inman Grant, boasts of her censorship powers and leads a global online safety regulators network with other countries. Grant aims to crack down on VPNs and privacy to control online content. European Union's Vera Jurova supports censorship to prevent events like January 6th. These actions raise concerns about government control over the internet worldwide.

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Speaker 0: Hey, everybody. It's Michael Shellenberger for public. Ex owner Elon Musk should be thrown in prison, said a senator in Australia because he refuses to delete a video of a recent stabbing from the entire x platform globally. Speaker 1: When it comes to the tech billionaire, like I've already said, I think he's a social media knob with no social conscience. He has absolutely no show social conscience. Someone like that should be in jail, and the key be thrown away. Speaker 0: But what's truly disgusting behavior here is calling for the incarceration of someone for not censoring the entire global Internet. It's simply not the right of any nation to decide what should be on the Internet around the world. No president, prime minister, or judge said Elon Musk has authority over all the earth. He's right. Now look, it's true that violent content online can be very disturbing, and I personally think platforms should put warning labels on them and find some way to prevent minors from seeing them. I also think there's some real privacy concerns that should be addressed, but that does not justify the Australian government censoring the entire global Internet of content it does not like. And violence is not the only thing that the Australian government has told x to remove. It's also targeted political speech. What's more, there's something really suspicious about what Australia demands right now. Australia is asking for the same thing that Brazil wanted, the power to censor the whole Internet. Many of us, myself included, have long suspected that government censors around the world from Ireland, Scotland, European Union would attempt to censor the whole of the Internet, not just in their own countries. And they would do so by using the excuse that people can get around national firewalls with virtual private networks known as VPNs. Well, that turned out to be more true than I had thought or had hoped. Public has now learned that there's a formal government censorship network called the Global Online Safety Regulators Network which Australia's top Internet censor Julie Inman Grant, who is an American described at, you guessed it, the World Economic Forum. The group includes sensors from Australia, France, Ireland, South Africa, Korea, the UK, and Fiji. But before getting into all that, it's first important to understand just how powerful this Australian censor is. Here's Julie Inman Grant boasting of her extraordinary censorship powers. Speaker 2: Yes. We do regulate the, the the platforms. We have a big stick that we can use when we want to. They're gonna be regulated, and they're gonna be regulated in ways that they don't wanna be regulated. So, you know, I we also have some pretty significant ISP blocking powers. We just had, some new powers given to us. Speaker 0: In a different video, Inman Grant says Speaker 2: In addition to be able to compel that takedown, to be able to find perpetrators, as a deterrent effect, and fine content hosts that don't take down this content. Speaker 0: She goes on to say that she is already working with Ireland, the UK, France, and other governments around the world. Speaker 2: We know we're going to be go much further, when we work together with other like minded independent statutory authorities around the globe. With the UK, with Ireland and with Fiji, in November 2022, we launched the Global Online Safety Regulators Network that has now grown to 7 independent regulators, including, France, South Korea, South Africa, and a number of countries are serving as observers. Speaker 0: Inman Grant said that she had launched this global censorship body, the global online safety regulators, in order to unify governments around a censorship agenda. Speaker 2: November, and we launched the global online safety regulators network so that we could have a forum to help us coordinate, build capacity and do just that. But also make sure that while we're going to have differences in our regulatory schemes, there would be common values that drive us together. We want to prevent fragmentation and regulatory fragmentation. We know that's a challenge for the platforms as well. Speaker 0: This global censorship body gives governments extraordinary powers to invade privacy, not just censor. Listen to this. Speaker 2: What this legislation will give us the ability to do is to compel basic device information and account information. And more and more social media companies are starting to collect phone numbers and email addresses so that our investigators can at least find a place to issue a notice or a takedown notice or infringement notice of some sort. Speaker 0: Grant is working with these other governments to stamp out now virtual private networks, which millions of people in China and other countries around the world use. Speaker 2: You can use VPNs. You can use burner phones, different SIM cards every day. So it's gonna be a challenge for a long time because, again, the Internet's global. Speaker 0: So what she's really doing here is complaining about this ability to access the Internet. They're looking to stomp out any access to the free Internet. Speaker 2: If, there is no such thing as a kind of global identity system or even a a piece of identity everybody can agree with. You know, should we be all be sharing our driver's license or or our passports? Speaker 0: At that same World Economic Forum meeting, one of the European Union's top censors, a woman named Vera Jarova, calls for censorship to avoid events like January 6th. Speaker 3: The same thing, a reaction on the 6th January 2020. I would expect that there will be maybe some more thoughts about whether it's a really good thing to have the digital sphere to influence in such a way the real life and the behavior of people. And again, nothing no big reaction. And in Europe, of course, we have our history. We had to take action against hate speech because what it is, antisemitism, racism, LGBT the menu is always the same. I think that we have a very strong reason why to to regulate. I will simplify. Speaker 0: Who is Jurova? Well, she's the same person that public caught spreading disinformation about a new Russiagate hoax 2 weeks ago. Who's Inman Grant?

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

A CORRECTION AND AN ADDITION: — Three people, Jankowicz, Schlein, and Kaplan, not just one, got back to us. We incorporated their comments in the thread above, but the first post incorrectly says only one person did. — Attached is Zatko's email pushing the Harvard pro-censorship white paper, aimed at the Biden administration, to Twitter staff, which I neglected to include above.

@JimFergusonUK — Jim Ferguson

Posted - February 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Saved - February 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM

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I’ve uncovered a shocking revelation: USAID has been secretly funding a large-scale internet censorship operation in London, led by Nina Jankowicz, known as Biden's "Disinformation Czar." Jankowicz, notorious for her controversial musical on disinformation, has been overseeing this initiative, which is funded by American taxpayers. This operation represents a global effort to suppress free speech, revealing a coordinated strategy to silence dissenting voices not just in the U.S., but worldwide. The truth is finally being exposed.

@JimFergusonUK - Jim Ferguson

BREAKING: 🚨 DOGE UNCOVERS USAID-FUNDED INTERNET CENSORSHIP OPERATION IN LONDON – RUN BY NINA JANKOWICZ! 🚨 🇬🇧🇺🇸 The TRUTH is out—USAID was secretly funding a massive misinformation & internet censorship project in London, headed by none other than Nina Jankowicz—Biden’s "Disinformation Czar." 🔴 Jankowicz, infamous for her cringe-worthy “disinfo” musical, was put in charge of Biden’s Orwellian Ministry of Truth. 🔴 Now we learn she’s been running a censorship machine FUNDED by American taxpayer dollars through USAID. 🔴 Globalist-backed suppression of free speech, exported across the Atlantic. 🔥 The Deep State’s global censorship network is being exposed— this wasn’t just about America. It was a coordinated effort to silence voices worldwide. Now, it’s ALL coming to light. 🔥

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The origins of certain information can be less severe when presented in a misleading way. It highlights how small lies can be concealed, especially when figures like Rudy Giuliani promote them. When hoaxes are presented in a convincing manner, they gain credibility, particularly in formal settings like Congress. This manipulation of truth makes the information seem more acceptable, despite its dubious origins.

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Speaker 0: None in congress or a mainstream alphabet so. This information's origins are slightly less atrocious. It's how you hide a little idle lie. It's how you hide a little idle lie. It's how you hide a little idle lie. It's how you hide a little idle lie when Rudy Giuliani ferocious. It's when a hoaxer takes them lies and makes them sound precocious by saying them in congress. We're a mainstream act of service. Information's origin seems slightly less atrocious.

@KanekoaTheGreat — KanekoaTheGreat

Posted - February 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM

Saved - February 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM

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I explored archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports, revealing how this nonprofit influenced regime change in Eastern Europe to support NATO expansion while later advocating for censorship in the West. Initially, Internews focused on promoting free speech and independent media in post-Soviet states, playing a key role in events like the Rose Revolution and Ukraine's Orange Revolution. However, after 2016, it shifted to calling for online censorship, raising questions about its legitimacy and the true beneficiaries of its efforts—NATO, defense contractors, or the American public.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

🧵THREAD: I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports. Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West. A deep dive👇 https://t.co/kyATSAFabg

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

1/ Internews, heavily funded by USAID ($470M), spent decades building media networks, training journalists, and promoting “free speech” in former Soviet states. But their mission wasn’t neutral. It was about shaping narratives to support NATO expansion. https://t.co/mDx6h2kJs2

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

Let’s start in 2001. ⬇️ 2/ The 2001 Internews Annual Report states: "Internews is one of the more successful agents of change in the former Soviet Union." - The Washington Post They worked to establish independent media in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, and beyond—fueling the decline of Moscow’s influence.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

3/ Internews wasn’t just promoting “free press.” Their own documents admit: "INTERNEWS does not just produce television and radio shows... it is more interested in using broadcast media as a lever to effect social and political transformation." Translation: Regime change.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

4/ In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. Their goal? To steer these countries toward NATO and Western control. https://t.co/mtCtkBaZKZ

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

5/ During Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Internews funded and trained journalists at Rustavi-2 TV, the leading channel driving the uprising. "Media was very good at informing the public about what was going on, and it had a huge role in calling people onto the streets." – Marc Behrendt, former Internews director for Georgia Internews Annual Report 2004: "A NON-VIOLENT uprising in November of 2003 led to the resignation of the president of Georgia in what became known as the “Rose Revolution.” One of the star players in this historic event was the gutsy, independent television station Rustavi2. As the only broadcaster willing to stand up to the government and inform the public about vote fraud and the protests that followed, Rustavi2 helped catalyze the mass mobilization of the population." "Since starting work in Georgia in 1994, Internews has provided extensive support to Rustavi-2, including training staff in investigative journalism and news reporting skills, and providing management, technical, and legal advice. When the government unsuccessfully tried to shut down the station in 1995 and again in 1996, Internews Georgia organized local and international campaigns in support of the station." "In July of 2004, Rustavi-2 became an associate member of Internews International."

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

6/ By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had: ▪️ Conducted 220 media training programs ▪️ Trained over 2,800 journalists ▪️ Produced 220+ TV programs & 1,000+ radio programs ▪️ Funded Telekritika, an online outlet central to the 2004 Orange Revolution The result? A Western-aligned Ukraine.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

7/ By 2005, Internews proudly stated they produced Proyav Chasu, one of Ukraine’s most popular TV programs, which "highlighted popular demonstrations against election fraud" during the Orange Revolution. They weren’t just reporting the revolution. They were fueling it. https://t.co/i0M3KrW6Bq

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

8/ By 2007, Internews had: ▪️ Trained 60,000 journalists worldwide ▪️ Established 2,500+ independent media outlets ▪️ Reached an audience of nearly 1 BILLION people ▪️ Advocated for media laws in 21 countries ▪️ Operated in 70 countries with offices in 42 cities This was media influence at an unprecedented scale.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

9/ The Washington Post described them as: "One of the more successful agents of change in the former Soviet Union." But was this really about “democracy”? Or about advancing U.S. and NATO geopolitical goals through information warfare? https://t.co/5TCedKtajy

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

10/ Let’s step back to their origins: 🔹 In the 1980s, Internews helped facilitate U.S.-Soviet spacebridges—live, uncensored TV dialogues during the Cold War. 🔹 By the 1990s, they pivoted to supporting U.S. funded media in post-Soviet states to counter Moscow’s narrative. https://t.co/SwdzDX6Kbb

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

11/ Internews even admitted its role in paving the way for NATO: In May 1990, Internews co-sponsored a meeting to discuss “the future architecture of Europe, including the question of allowing a unified Germany into NATO.” This meeting, held at Crottorf Castle, was organized with the Soros-funded Institute for East-West Studies.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

12/ Fast forward to 2016. 🔹 After Trump’s election & Brexit, Internews pivoted. 🔹 The same NGO that once championed free speech as a weapon against foreign governments began calling free speech online dangerous and pushed for censorship in the West. 🔹 Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushed for a global advertising "exclusion list" to censor "disinformation" at the World Economic Forum. This coincided with the 𝕏 advertising boycott, targeting Elon Musk's platform, which had been at the forefront of defending free speech online.

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Disinformation is profitable, so we must trace the money. A significant portion of the funding for harmful content comes from the global advertising industry. We need to collaborate with this industry to redirect ad dollars. This can involve creating exclusion and inclusion lists to target funding towards accurate and reliable news and information. We must challenge the global advertising industry worldwide to prioritize funding for truthful and relevant content.

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Speaker 0: Disinformation makes money, and it's that's one of the we need to follow that money, and we need to work with the and particularly the global advertising industry that a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad, bad content. And so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists to sort of really try to focus ad dollars and challenge the global advertising industry all around the world to focus their ad dollars towards the good news and information, the good the accurate and relevant news and information.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

13/ Internews—now collaborating with the USAID-funded World Economic Forum—shifted its focus to advertising boycotts to control online discourse. What was once used to overthrow foreign governments was now turned against American citizens. Their new narrative? The internet must be policed to stop “misinformation” and “disinformation.” The same information warfare they used abroad was now turned inward—targeting political dissidents, alternative media, and anyone challenging establishment narratives. They didn’t stop with media manipulation abroad. They brought those tactics home.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

14/ This raises critical questions: ▪️ Did USAID-Internews’ regime change efforts actually help the people in these countries or the American people? ▪️ Or did they serve NATO expansion, lucrative defense contracts, and Western corporate interests at the expense of the people? Because when you look at the results, it’s clear: ▪️ Russia and China grew closer, accelerating a multipolar world. ▪️ Ukraine became a battleground between Western interests and Russia, devastating the country, and risking a nuclear war. ▪️ Eastern European nations were pulled into NATO and EU structures, often at the cost of their own sovereignty. ▪️ American taxpayers funded this, but never saw any direct benefit—only endless wars and skyrocketing military spending.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

16/ The irony is staggering. Internews was founded during the Cold War to foster open dialogue between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was meant to reduce hostilities between East and West. Instead, USAID and Western elites transformed it into a propaganda machine for NATO expansion, which ignited the second Cold War.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

17/ But here’s where it gets worse. It’s bad enough that USAID-funded media manipulation helped expand NATO, escalate global tensions, and contribute to war. But after Trump and Brexit, when this same public-private partnership turned inward—censoring political opposition and online free speech in the West—it lost all legitimacy. ▪️ Why should American taxpayers fund organizations calling for the censorship of American taxpayers? ▪️ Why is a foreign-focused regime change machine now deciding what Americans can and cannot say online?

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

18/ The reality is, USAID didn’t just fund foreign interventions. They helped create a global information control apparatus—one that can be turned on any population at any time. What started in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine came home to target Brexit supporters, MAGA voters, and dissenting voices on 𝕏. First, they “protected democracy” abroad. Then, they “protected democracy” by censoring you.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

19/ The final question: Who has really benefited from USAID funding Internews across Eastern Europe? ▪️ The people in these countries? ▪️ American taxpayers? ▪️ Or NATO, the defense contractors, and Western elites? At what point do Americans start questioning why they’re funding this? Because the USAID bill? It exceeds $40 billion per year—funding not just foreign regime change and domestic censorship, but also the Wuhan lab, the World Economic Forum, and the reignition of the Cold War. And the costs keep rising.

@DataRepublican — DataRepublican (small r)

Posted - February 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM

Saved - February 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM

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I explored the influence of seven NGOs that I believe represent the Uniparty, all funded significantly by USAID or the Department of State. These organizations, originally aimed at promoting democracy abroad, have redefined "democracy" to mean their own existence. I detailed their roles, funding, and leadership, highlighting how they interconnect and support U.S. foreign policy interests. Despite their partisan affiliations, they often collaborate, revealing a complex web of influence that shapes political narratives under the guise of protecting democracy.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy” The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State. Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.” Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself. This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a "threat to democracy." To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

Please note that @MikeBenzCyber is the expert on this topic—I’m just a technical person researching and learning alongside all of you. To understand how these NGOs connect to democracy, let’s take a look at what AI says about the purpose of each one:

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

🟥 International Republican Institute (IRI) (EIN 521340267) – Promotes democracy by training political parties and leaders, primarily supporting U.S. foreign policy interests through a Republican-aligned lens. 🟦 National Democratic Institute (NDI) (EIN 521338892) – Advances democracy by fostering political participation and governance reforms worldwide, aligned with Democratic Party priorities. ⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) (EIN 521943638) – A coalition of democracy-focused NGOs (IRI, NDI, IFES) that supports electoral processes, civil society, and governance reforms globally. 🗽 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (EIN 521344831) – Acts as the primary funding hub for democracy promotion efforts worldwide, distributing U.S. government grants to NGOs supporting political and civil society development. 🗳 International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (EIN 521527835) – Strengthens global democracy by providing technical assistance for election security, integrity, and voter participation. 📡 Internews (EIN 943027961) – Supports independent media and press freedom worldwide, shaping democratic discourse by training journalists and combating disinformation. 💰 Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) (EIN 521398742) – Promotes democracy through free-market economic policies, advocating for business-friendly governance and anti-corruption initiatives. ⚒️ Solidarity Center (EIN 472130723) – Advances democracy by supporting independent labor movements and workers' rights, often partnering with unions to promote political engagement.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

Note what they all have in common? They are all dedicated to advocating democracy. And they have redefined "democracy" to mean themselves. Let's dig into each one in detail.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

First up: 💰 Internews Network receives substantial U.S. government funding, with $94.5 million in active grants from USAID and the Department of State. Its IRS Form 990 reports $93.9 million in taxpayer funding, out of a $124 million total budget. Among its principal officers includes 🔵 Anna Soellner – VP of Communications at Reddit. For more on Internews Network, I refer to the Wikileaks thread https://t.co/Plw0i6ggqG

@wikileaks - WikiLeaks

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over…

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is another NGO promoting democracy worldwide. They have over half a billion dollars in active spending grants and $160+ million in annual contributions, mostly USAID. 💰Despite receiving grants for initiatives in countries such as Venezuela and Georgia, 100% of its funds act as a passthrough to three core organizations: 🔴 International Republican Institute (IRI) – 31% of CEPPS funding. 🔵 National Democratic Institute (NDI) – 41% of CEPPS funding. ⚖️ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – 28% of CEPPS funding. Curiously, CEPPS reports no salaries. It is led by Kira Rebar, former foreign policy advisor to Bob Menendez, the now-indicted U.S. senator.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is one of the three CEPP organizations. Unlike other democracy-promoting NGOs, IFES does not receive direct USAID funding, but it still holds $33 million in active spending grants and operates with an annual budget of nearly $59 million. Its notable principal officers include: 🔵 Steny Hoyer – Former Democratic Representative from Maryland and House Majority Leader. 🔴 Rob Portman – Former U.S. Senator from Ohio (Republican). ⚖️ M. Peter McPherson – Former USAID advisor.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

The other two CEPPS organizations, the NDI and IRI, must be viewed as part of the larger NED umbrella which includes four NGOs. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was established in 1983 to advance democracy protection efforts worldwide. To prevent any single party from monopolizing its agenda, NED was structured as a bipartisan funding vehicle that supports two partisan-affiliated NGOs: the International Republican Institute (IRI) on the Republican side, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on the Democratic side. NED itself holds approximately $1,618 million in active grants (allocated in a single large block by the Department of State) and operates with an annual budget of about $362 million.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) itself maintains a bipartisan leadership structure: 🔵 Karen Bass – Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Representative and current Mayor of Los Angeles (Democrat). 🔴 Elise Stefanik – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; U.S. Representative from New York and House GOP Conference Chair (Republican). 🔴 Mel Martinez – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Senator from Florida (Republican). 🔴 Peter Roskam – Vice Chair at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Representative from Illinois (Republican). 🔴 Steve Biegun – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (Republican). In addition to NDI and IRI, the NDI supports Center for International Private Enterprise and Solidarity Center.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is bipartisan as well. 🔴 Neil Bradley – President/Secretary; former Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 🔴 Kim R. Holmes – Vice Chair; former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under President George W. Bush; previously the Executive Vice President at The Heritage Foundation. 🔵 Ruchi Bhowmik – Director; former deputy cabinet secretary to President Barack Obama. VP of Pubic Policy at Netflix. 🔵 Douglas Lute – Former Director (until 05/23); retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO under President Obama.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

Although CIPE’s stated mission is to promote democracy and free markets through a business-oriented approach, its actual activities are unclear from its IRS Form 990. The majority of its expenses go toward salaries and a broad “Other” category, which lacks detailed breakdowns. The Schedule O explanation doesn’t provide much clarity—it mostly lists consulting fees and program service expenses, without specifying how these expenditures advances its mission.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

The Solidarity Center is another core beneficiary of NED, affiliated with AFL-CIO, making it closely tied to labor unions. (It could be seen as the labor counterpart to the free-market-focused CIPE.) Although it doesn’t appear in my graph due to lower reported contributions, its official 2020 financial report shows it received $39 million in federal awards that year. Additionally, by searching the DataRepublican database, I found a federal award granted directly to the American Center for International Labor, which is connected to the Solidarity Center and holds $105 million in active spending grants.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

The International Republican Institute (IRI) is the third NED-funded NGO that, again, promotes democracy worldwide through a Republican-aligned perspective. Its leadership is dominated by establishment Republican politicians. 🔴 Mitt Romney – Director; Former U.S. Senator from Utah, 2012 GOP presidential nominee. 🔴 Lindsey Graham – Director; U.S. Senator from South Carolina. 🔴 Joni Ernst – Director; U.S. Senator from Iowa. 🔴 Tom Cotton – Director; U.S. Senator from Arkansas. 🔴 Marco Rubio (Formerly) 🔴 Dan Sullivan – Chairman; U.S. Senator from Alaska. 🔴 Kelly Ayotte – Director; former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. 🔴 Mark Kirk – Director; former U.S. Senator from Illinois.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

Although IRI does not have a Schedule I on its 990, its audit is illuminating. It reports 38 million in salaries, 17.5 million in “fringe benefits”, 3 million in rent, 12 million on travel. https://t.co/JDvaNkq5qE

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

🔴 IRI also funds some progressive-aligned NGOs, despite its Republican affiliation. 🌍 International Organization for Migration (IOM) – A UN-associated NGO focused on refugee and displaced persons aid. It manages migration-related programs worldwide. ♀️ Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) – A division within the U.S. Department of State that ensures women’s and girls’ rights are fully integrated into U.S. foreign policy.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is the fourth and final NED-financed NGO. It serves as the Democratic counterpart to IRI. Its principal officers include: 🔵 Barbara Mikulski – Director; longest-serving woman in the U.S. Senate, former Maryland Senator (Democrat). 🔵 Thomas Daschle – Chairman; former Senate Majority Leader, key figure in Democratic legislative strategy (Democrat). 🔵 Stacey Abrams – Director; high-profile Georgia political leader, voting rights advocate, and former gubernatorial candidate (Democrat). 🔵 Donna Brazile – Director; veteran Democratic strategist, former DNC chair, and political commentator (Democrat).

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

Like the IRI’s audit, the NDI’s makeup is heavy on salaries, travel, and fringe benefits. https://t.co/krwrc0VCh4

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

NDI has $47 million in active spending grants worldwide. Some of its major grantees, as listed on its IRS Form 990 Schedule I, include: 📡 Internews Network – Received $2.3 million to support independent media and press freedom initiatives. ⚖️ American Bar Association – Granted $1.1 million for legal and judicial development programs related to democracy. 🔴 International Republican Institute (IRI) – Surprisingly, NDI awarded $1 million to its Republican-aligned counterpart, despite their partisan affiliations, showing how these democracy-promoting NGOs interconnect as a true Uniparty.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

🧵 Thread End. I learned a lot in creating this thread and I hope you did too!

@elonmusk — Elon Musk

Posted - February 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Saved - February 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

It was a tool of the radical left

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

🧵THREAD: I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports. Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West. A deep dive👇 https://t.co/kyATSAFabg

@VigilantFox — The Vigilant Fox 🦊

Posted - March 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM

Saved - March 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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In a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, I discussed what I believe to be the "biggest scam" in U.S. history: government waste and the misuse of taxpayer funds. I highlighted a shocking case where the Navy received $12 billion for submarines but produced none, with officials unable to account for the money. I also criticized the lack of accountability in government spending, suggesting that reforms could save billions. Additionally, I exposed how taxpayer-funded NGOs operate as unaccountable entities, redefining their missions to protect their own power rather than democracy itself.

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

Elon Musk Exposes the “Biggest Scam Ever” “I thought it would be bad, but I did not think it would be as bad as this.” 🧵 THREAD https://t.co/zua3jjtnOg

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

Elon Musk just exposed what he calls the “biggest scam” in U.S. history during his viral appearance on episode #2281 of The Joe Rogan Experience. The focus of the conversation was government waste and abuse—and Musk had plenty to say. Musk quickly dropped a shocker when he revealed that the government handed the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines—and not a single submarine was built. When lawmakers asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea—a revelation Musk heard firsthand from Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine). “There’s a case where I think Senator Collins was telling me about how she gave the Navy $12 billion for more submarines, got no extra submarines, and then held a hearing to say where the $12 billion go. “And they were like, we don’t know. That was it. I mean, basically, stuff is so crazy. Only the federal government could get away with this level of waste,” Musk said.

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Twitter, at least, was breaking even and passing audits, unlike the federal government, which loses trillions annually and fails its audits. Senator Collins, for example, allocated billions to the Navy for submarines, but no additional submarines were produced, and the government couldn't account for the funds. This level of waste is unique to the federal government, as they've grown accustomed to it over time. It's like Milton Friedman said: money is most poorly spent when you're spending someone else's money on people you don't know, which is exactly what the federal government does.

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Speaker 0: You know, in the case of Twitter, it wasn't a profitable company. It was, like, basically a breakeven company, but at least it was breakeven, and it had to pass an audit. The the federal government is not breakeven. It's literally losing $2,000,000,000,000 a year, and it does not pass its audits. It fails its own audit. So, like, you know, there's a case where, like, I think senator Collins was telling me about how she she gave the navy twelve billion dollars for more submarines, got no extra submarines, and then held a hearing to say where the $12,000,000,000 go, and they were like, we don't know. That was it. I mean, like, basically, stuff is so crazy. It's like, the only the federal government could get away with this level of waste of of waste. It's mostly waste. It's mostly not for it. It's mostly waste. It's it's mostly just ridiculous things happening. Because they've been able to do it this way for so long, and they've become accustomed to it. Yeah. I mean, it's like Milton Friedman said, like, money is most poorly spent when when you're spending someone else's money on people you don't know. How much are you gonna care? Right. And that's the that's the federal government. So they they're spending someone else's money on people they don't know.

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

In another eye-opening moment, Musk concluded that the government could save $100 billion a year just by forcing agencies to explain what their payments are actually for. He mentioned how the current system allows the government to send payments with no categorization code, no description, and no explanation—essentially handing out blank checks with zero accountability. Musk compared this to public companies, saying that if a corporation tried the same thing, it would be delisted immediately, and its executives would “be thrown in prison.”

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We found that the government was essentially sending untraceable blank checks. If a public company did this, they'd be delisted and executives would go to prison, but it's normal in the government. We recommended to the Treasury and Federal Reserve that payment categorization codes be mandatory, not optional, and that every payment need some explanation, even if we don't judge the quality of it. This is a radical change that's now being implemented. I'm guessing it probably saves about $100 billion a year. Where was that money going? It's hard to say if it was waste or fraud. Many payments were just approved and kept going even after the approving officer changed jobs, retired, or died. It's like forgetting to cancel a gym membership, but instead of $20 a month, it's $20 billion a year.

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Speaker 0: You could put a payment through with with no payment categorization code and and no description on the payment, like, basically, untraceable blank checks. This is the kind of thing that if if it was done as a public company, the company would be immediately delisted, and the executive team would be thrown in prison. But this is just normal at the government. So we said, okay. Our recommendation to the treasury and the Federal Reserve is, like, we need to make the the payment categorization codes mandatory, not optional, and you need there needs to be an ex an an explanation. We're not judging the quality of the explanation, but there should be some explanation for what this payment is for above nothing. That's a radical change to the system that is being implemented now. I my guess is that probably saves a hundred billion a year. Jesus Christ. That's Well, where is that money going? Rough rough order of magnitude. Where was that money going? Well, so this is where you get into the the sort of gray boundary between waste and fraud. If money is sent to a person or organization from the government, and you didn't really deserve it, but the government still sent it to you, is that waste or fraud? Right. So, I mean, there's a lot of payments that where someone just approved approved the payment, but then that payment officer, changed jobs or retired or died, and the payments just keep going. You know, it's like if you forget to pay your gym membership or something like that. Right. Now imagine it's not the gym membership. He said your gym membership's $20,000,000,000 a year or something. You know? But they forgot to turn it off.

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Musk and Rogan extended their outrage to the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they were alarmed to learn that over 100 intelligence staffers spent taxpayer time turning government servers into porn chat rooms instead of protecting the country. https://t.co/NKZTSmsOAV

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“Your tax dollars at work,” Musk mocked. “That’s not what they should be talking about at all. Supposed to be protecting the country.” https://t.co/CkSZsqFczJ

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We shouldn't put public safety at risk because of some demented philosophy. There was a post about the NSA being infiltrated. It started as a fringe thing, then completely infiltrated the organization. They're spending all their time in some sex chat room with extremely demented stuff. More than a hundred intelligence staffers will be fired over sexually explicit texts in NSA chat rooms. It was all LGBTQ stuff, transition stuff. It infiltrated the organization, which is not what they should be talking about. They're supposed to be protecting the country. People are spending half their time in these meetings. If you have a problem with someone discriminatory, get rid of that person. The work environment should be professional where they're getting the job done that they're being paid to do, not getting paid for bizarre sexcapades.

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Speaker 0: I think we we should not put the public safety at risk No. You know, because of some demented philosophy. Speaker 1: Somebody made a post today about it in infiltrating the NSA. Did you see any of that? Speaker 0: That was what, that was in some gnarly stuff. Yeah. Crazy. Speaker 1: What they they they had it started off as just like this sort of fringe thing, and people would beat up, then it completely infiltrated the organization. Yeah. And they're spending all their time. Speaker 0: It was like 400 people or something and some, like, some chat sex chat room with, like, some extremely demanded stuff. Speaker 1: Yeah. So she more than a hundred intelligence staffers will be fired over sexually explicit texts in NSA chat rooms, Gabbard says. So so top intelligence official told Waters that the workers in question were brazen and using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this kind of really, really horrific behavior. What is the behavior? What exactly what is it? Did they say in this article? Speaker 0: Yeah. I think they were also Speaker 1: Okay. It says employees who participate in the NSA's obscene pornographic and sexually explicit chat rooms. Speaker 0: Your tax dollars at work? Well, it Speaker 1: was all, like, d e I mean, it was all, like, LBGTQ stuff. It was there was a lot of, like, transition stuff and Yeah. I I know I definitely saved it, but point is, they and it infiltrated the organization. Speaker 0: Not what they should be talking about. At all. At all. At all. Speaker 1: Yeah. They're supposed Speaker 0: to be protecting the country. Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. And if you and people were talking about how they're spending half their time in these meetings, and that they're just like constantly having to attend these things where they talk about these issues like, what are what are you doing? Like, if you have a problem with someone that's discriminatory, get rid of that person. That's it. Yes. It's problem's over. You've got someone who's homophobic in your business. They're openly homophobic. Yeah. That you can't work here. You're just not cool. That's it. That's it. You don't have to have fucking meetings constantly promoting this. You're not gonna change someone's opinion by berating them over and over again. Speaker 0: Yeah. I mean, work environment should be a professional environment where, you know, they're they're they're getting the job done that they're, you know, you know, being paid to do. That that it should be yeah. Of course. Obviously, it's not supposed to be, sort of getting paid for bizarre sex sexcapades.

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Musk tore apart the “threat to democracy” slogan—calling it a cover for “threat to bureaucracy”—before exposing what he called the “biggest scam ever.” https://t.co/CRR0V117Fu

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ELON: "The government funded NGO's are a way to do things that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so-called nonprofit ... It's a gigantic scam. Maybe the biggest scam ever."

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The whole NGO thing is a nightmare because government funded non-governmental organizations are essentially just government organizations, it's an oxymoron. Government funded NGOs are a loophole that allows the government to do things that would otherwise be illegal, by sending funds to a nonprofit. These nonprofits are then used for people to cash out and become very wealthy, it's a gigantic scam. There are probably millions of NGOs, and tens of thousands of large ones. It's a hack to the system where someone can get an NGO for a small amount of money. Soros was really good at this, he figured out how to leverage a small amount of money to create a nonprofit, then lobby politicians to send a ton of money to that nonprofit.

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Speaker 0: The the whole NGO thing is a is a nightmare, and it's it's a misnomer because if you have a government funded nongovernmental organization, you you're you're simply a government funded organization. It it it's a it's an oxymoron. Speaker 1: Right. It's a loophole. Speaker 0: Yes. It it basically, the government funded NGOs are a way to do things that that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so called nonprofit. But these but these nonprofits are then used to people cash out these nonprofits. They become very wealthy through nonprofits. They pay themselves enormous sums through these nonprofits. Speaker 1: That's it's so insane that that's been going on for so long. Speaker 0: It's a gigantic scam. Like, one of the biggest maybe the biggest scam ever. Speaker 1: And how many NGOs? Speaker 0: I think there's a total number of NGOs, probably millions. But in terms of large NGOs, tens of thousands. I mean, it's it's actually it's it's it's kind of a a hack to the system where, you know, someone can get an NGO stood up for for a fairly small amount of money. Like, Soros was really good at this. Like, he really George Soros is like a system hacker. Like, he he figured out how to hack the system. He's a genius at arbitrage. I mean, these days, he's he's pretty old, but a genius at arbitrage. So he he figured out that you could leverage a small amount of money to create a nonprofit, then lobby the for the politicians to send a ton of money to that nonprofit so you can take what might be, you know, a $10,000,000 donation to a nonprofit to create a nonprofit and leverage that into a billion dollar not NGO. And nonprofit is a weird word. It's just a nongovernmental organization. And and then you can. The government continues to fund that every year, and it'll have a nice sounding name, like the Institute for Peace or something like that. But, really, it's a graphic machine.

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And that scam is the government’s use of taxpayer-funded NGOs as a loophole to funnel billions of dollars into shadowy, unaccountable organizations—doing things that would be illegal if carried out directly by the government itself.

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People saw Trump as a threat to democracy, but he was really a threat to the bureaucracy. Elected officials have little power compared to the bureaucracy, and Doge is the first real threat to it. Usually, the bureaucracy absorbs revolutions, but this time, power might actually return to the people. The small decisions within the bureaucracy lead to massive financial outcomes. We saw cases where billions were sent to newly formed NGOs with no prior activity. Government-funded NGOs are a nightmare, a way to bypass laws. These nonprofits are used for people to cash out, becoming wealthy and paying themselves huge sums. It's one of the biggest scams ever.

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Speaker 0: The real threat here is to the bureaucracy. So, like, you probably saw, like, you know, let's say, like, Trump as a threat to our democracy, which is ironic since he was elected with the majority of the, you know, popular vote. They they started saying, was a threat to democracy. But if you if you just replace threat to democracy with threat to bureaucracy, it makes total sense. Right. So, I mean, the reality is that our elected officials have very very little power relative to the bureaucracy until Doge. So Doge is a threat to the bureaucracy. It's the first threat to the bureaucracy. Normally, bureaucracy eats revolutions for breakfast. This is the first time that they're not, that the revolution might actually succeed, that we could restore power to the people instead of power to the bureaucracy. Speaker 1: Now the size of it Yeah. Was when you guys first started investigating it, when you first get in, how much of it was shocking? Like, this just the size of it all. Speaker 0: Well, the the size of it all the small decisions result in multibillion dollar outcomes. So, you know, we'd see you know, it was a case where we saw one person was getting $1,900,000,000 sent to their NGO, which basically got formed about a year ago and had no prior really, no no prior activity. So they just stand up a, you know, NGO. The the these the the whole NGO thing is a is a nightmare, and it's it's a misnomer because if you have a government funded nongovernmental organization, you you're you're simply a government funded organization. It it it's a it's an oxymoron. Speaker 1: Right. It's a loophole. Speaker 0: Yes. It it basically, the government funded NGOs are a way to do things that that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so called nonprofit. But these but these nonprofits are then used to people cash out these nonprofits. They become very wealthy through nonprofits. They pay themselves enormous sums through these nonprofits. Speaker 1: That's it's so insane that that's been going on for so long. Speaker 0: It's a gigantic scam. Like, one of the biggest maybe the biggest scam ever.

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Musk declared that the term NGO is actually an “oxymoron” because these so-called nongovernmental organizations are funded directly by the government. “The whole NGO thing is a nightmare. And it’s a misnomer because if you have a government-funded nongovernmental organization, you’re simply a government-funded organization. It’s an oxymoron,” Musk explained.

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Popular X user and data scientist Jennica Pounds, better known as @DataRepublican, recently blew the lid off an NGO claiming to promote “democracy.” She revealed in a NewsNation exclusive how this particular NGO received $17 million—and “the only thing they did with $17 million was make a terrible muppet show.” “That’s (explicit word)!” she exclaimed.

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I looked into Norm Eisen's NGO, State United Democracies Center, which is full of prominent figures. This organization receives $17 million in private donations. After researching, the only thing I could find that they did with the money was produce a low-quality Muppet show. All the videos they created with these knockoff puppets have less than 200 views. It makes you wonder, with all those famous names involved, is that the best thing they could do with $17 million? The result is awful; Jim Henson would be rolling in his grave. They didn't even promote the videos with ads. So, where did the $17 million go?

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Speaker 0: So Norm Eisen, he runs an NGO called State United Democracies Center. State United Democracies Center. It's actually full of big names like Janet. Janet. Bethel Tendo. Neapolitano. Tom Wicks. Tom Ridge. Buckskin. Michaels. Steel. Michael Steele. You know, many famous names were involved in a specific NGO. Now that NGO accepts $17,000,000 in private donation. So I was researching. Wait. What did I do? Like, with $17,000,000 I started researching. K. But the only thing I could find But the only thing that I found they made a knockoff Muppet show. You think I'm kidding. They actually made puppets, Muppets, but, like, knockoff puppets. And all the videos that they made with these knockoff puppets had less than 200 meals. They speak at once. And so I'm wondering that all those big names, all those famous people at the NGO, and the only thing they did was $17,000,000 was make a terrible Muppet show. It's They got money, and they did something with that. It was just awful. Jim Henson would roll in his grave. I saw the video on your ex. The mop Yes. Is I know. And it was weary because all the videos less have less than 200 views. And they didn't even try to promote them with ads or anything. So where did the $17,000,000 go?

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The NGO, co-founded by Norm Eisen, calls itself the “States United Democracy Center,” and all they could manage to pull off with that $17 million was about 200 views per episode of their knockoff muppet show—something that looked more like a $17,000 production. “They got money, and they did something with that. It was just awful. Jim Henson would roll in his grave. And it was weird because all the videos have less than 200 views,” @DataRepublican explained. “They didn’t even try to promote them with ads or anything. So where did the $17 million go?” She asked.

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In Pennsylvania, we ensure safe, secure, and accurate elections through multiple layers of verification. Every vote has a paper record, secured and tracked under strict chain of custody. Ballots are preserved for almost two years. Local officials verify absentee and mail-in ballots, ensuring they are signed, registered, and received on time. Our ballot counting machines meet federal security standards and are regularly tested with bipartisan observers. Bipartisan poll watchers oversee the counting process, and ballots are counted by local workers. We certify election results through a careful process. Election workers confirm that each eligible voter has voted only once. Counties finalize their counts and deliver results to the state. State officials tally these votes and certify the final statewide results, backed by maintained paper records. State courts handle challenges, and automatic recounts occur in close elections. The Department of State oversees this process, typically certifying final results after the third Monday post-election.

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Speaker 0: How does Pennsylvania make sure elections are safe, secure, and accurate? Come on in. I'll show you. After all voter rolls are checked and all equipment is tested and secured, registered voters can begin casting their ballots. In Pennsylvania, there is a paper record of every single vote. Every cast ballot is secured, tracked, and put under strict chain of custody rules. We actually secure and preserve the ballots for almost two years according to federal law. Trusted local election officials check that absentee and mail in ballots are signed and verified to be from a registered voter and arrived by election day before they are counted. All of our ballot counting machines meet rigorous federal security standards, and we test them regularly in open view of bipartisan observers. This process helps reduce human error and bias. In Pennsylvania, bipartisan poll watchers from both parties oversee the ballot counting process and can raise concerns with election officials. Ballots are counted by workers in the same community where the vote was cast. And since precincts report their tallies at different times, it can look like the lead swings from one candidate to another as results come in. But rest assured, every legally cast ballot will be counted and verified before we announce a winner. Pennsylvania follows a careful and thorough process to certify its election results. Election workers check that only one vote is counted from each eligible voter. We make sure no one has voted more than once. Each county finalizes their vote count and delivers the official results to the state. State officials tally the votes for all counties and certify the final statewide results. And each county is required to maintain paper records to back up their vote count. The state courts will oversee challenges from candidates and voters to resolve legal disputes regarding election results. In the event of an extremely close election, an automatic recount happens. This entire certification process is overseen by the Department of State. Finally, after the ballot results are checked and rechecked, the Department of State typically certifies its final results following the third Monday after the election. Yay.

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DataRepublican also recently unmasked the “Uniparty” as a group of NGOs partially funded by your tax dollars. And the one thing they all have in common is that they claim to promote “democracy.” According to her investigation, seven NGOs, heavily backed by USAID and the U.S. State Department, act as the Uniparty’s enforcement arm—pushing propaganda under the guise of “protecting democracy.”

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A recent report unmasks seven NGOs, partially funded by U.S. taxpayers, as key players in the "deep state" uniparty. These organizations, originally meant to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad, have redefined their mission to be the guardians of democracy itself. They receive substantial funding from USAID and the State Department. This shift explains why Trump's reelection was framed as a threat, as these NGOs equate democracy with their own survival and authority. They control the purse strings for much of America's global financial influence. These groups function as an off the books shadow U.S. government. Now, with increased scrutiny and declining media trust, their propaganda efforts are weakened, potentially leading to more desperate measures from the deep state.

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Speaker 0: DC swamp uniparty unmasked as these seven NGOs. Very interesting article from Zero Hedge here. Ex user Data Republican claims to have identified seven NGOs partially funded by American taxpayers that appear to be key players within the so called deep state uniparty. According to their analysis, these organizations have shaped public discourse over the past decade through radical propaganda, portraying Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. But in actuality, it's not democracy itself, but rather the challenge that Trump and the MAGA movement pose to their political regime. Here is more color on data Republicans report titled the Unique Party Unmasked, they believe they are, quote, democracy. The seven NGOs in the chart below, we'll show you that in a moment, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State. Around 2019, the phrase democracy in danger began to dominate public discourse amplified by the media. This was odd. After all, The US is a democracy or, actually, more precisely, a constitutional republic. But as I trace the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged. They are controlled by establishment politicians. They play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as protecting democracy. Originally, these NGOs were created to support US Democratic efforts abroad, many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself. This shift explains why Trump's reelection was framed as a threat to democracy. To these NGOs, democracy means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself. And you can see those NGOs there and their EINs. Very, very interesting web. Note what they all have in common. They are all dedicated to advocating democracy, and they've redefined democracy to mean themselves, data Republican said. If the Uni Party has redefined democracy to represent itself, then it's no surprise that it has spent the past decade waging an informational war against Trump. Across corporate media, the Uni Party unleashed the cannons of propaganda and relentlessly labeled him and his MAGA supporters as a threat to democracy. Data Republican breaks down each of the seven NGOs, and they all have this one thing in common. You have the International Republican Institute promotes democracy by training political parties and leaders, primarily supporting US foreign policy interests through a Republican aligned lens. The National Democratic Institute or NDI advances democracy by fostering political participation and governance reforms worldwide aligned with democratic party priorities. Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening, a coalition of democracy focused NGOs that supports electoral processes, civil society, and governance reforms globally. The National Endowment for Democracy acts as primarily funding hub or the primary funding hub rather for democracy promotion efforts worldwide, distributing US government grants to NGOs supporting political and civil society development. International Foundation for Electoral Systems strengthens global democracy by providing technical assistance for election security, integrity, and voter participation. Intern News supports independent media and press freedom worldwide, shaping democratic discourse by training journalists and combating disinformation. The Center for International Private Enterprise promotes democracy through free market economic policies, advocating for business friendly governance and anticorruption initiatives. The Solidarity Center advances democracy by supporting independent labor movements and workers' rights, often partnering with unions to promote political engagement. They all have this in common. They're all dedicated to advocating democracy. Well, Data Republican then summarized the entire thread. After thinking it was over last night, here's how I would summarize it. These seven NGOs, eight if you count the off the chart Solidarity Center, together function as an off the books shadow US government. The National Endowment for Democracy was created to unify The US against communism. Its four core organizations reflect a neat ideological symmetry of America's Two party system. CIPE pushes free market policies. Solidarity Center represents labor and unions. IRI serves Republican interests, and NDI aligns with the Democrats. CEPPS is another umbrella group that includes IRI and NDI, but also brings it in IFES under the guise of fortifying election integrity. And to make sure the narrative sticks, Inter News Network spreads these viewpoints throughout global media. Most of these NGOs were born during the Reagan years. While not all USAID and State Department funding flows through them, they control the purse strings for much of America's global financial influence. DEI initiatives created a system of unaccountability and dependency, which ended up injecting more money into them and further infringes their power. They see any challenge to their authority as a threat to democracy itself, but their greatest enemy is still the same one they've had since the Cold War, Russia. They never lost the Cold War boomer mindset. In their minds, they're the superheroes keeping America from crumbling, and that entitles them to their travel perks, cushy post election gigs, and all the other benefits that come with running an unacknowledged empire. Now in recent weeks, Trump sent Elon Musk's doge into federal agencies as a wrecking ball to the uniparty, halting their grift and use of NGOs to siphon taxpayer funds in an unlimited slush fund via USAID. The uniparty's next propaganda blitz has already appeared in the news headlines indicating Trump and Musk are setting off a constitutional crisis. The problem this time is that the uniparty's media reach and propaganda efforts have been neutered with Musk now controlling x and trust in the mainstream media at record lows. As the uniparty grows more panicked, the deep state will likely become even more desperate. Well, it's a new day in America and a new administration in Washington DC. 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@DataRepublican These groups have shifted their mission from spreading democracy abroad to protecting their own power—redefining “democracy” to mean themselves. Or, as Musk puts it, a threat to “democracy” really means a threat to the bureaucracy. https://t.co/ihrgq8rM0r

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🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy” The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State. Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.” Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself. This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a "threat to democracy." To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.

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@DataRepublican During today’s conversation, Rogan asked Musk what he expected to uncover when he first launched DOGE to expose government waste. Musk replied, “I thought it would be bad, but I did not think it would be as bad as this.” Watch the full episode below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSOxPJD-VNo

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@DataRepublican Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this report, please do me a quick favor and follow me (@VigilantFox) for more posts like this one. In other news, a persuasion expert recently appeared on Joe Rogan and made a shocking COVID claim. Read more below: https://t.co/EoB8k9rYxA

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10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today #10 - Persuasion expert bets his career on the COVID response being a full-blown psyop. JOE ROGAN: “Do you think that someone sat in a room and that people discussed the best ways to get people to comply?” CHASE HUGHES: “Yes. Oh, yes. I would bet my career because it was executed following textbook protocol.” Hughes explained that the key sign of a psyop is “if the opinion that’s coming out needs people to be silenced.” “So if you can’t question it—if you’re supposed to just go along, it’s a psyop,” Hughes reiterated. During COVID, terms like “disinformation” and “misinformation” flooded the airwaves, but those terms were often weaponized to discredit voices and opinions the government didn’t like. Doctors like Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, respected scientists at Stanford and Harvard, were silenced simply for challenging lockdowns through the Great Barrington Declaration. “And it was openly discussed in emails,” Rogan pointed out. “That’s what’s really crazy. They talked about the strategy of silencing these people, and then you had the actual government itself contacting Twitter, trying to get people removed, which is wild.” They even went as far as to write headlines like “Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary” (LA Times). “My hope is that people have learned from this past four years and that this is an eye-opener,” Rogan said. (See 9 More Revealing Stories Below)

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If an opinion requires people to be silenced, it's a psyop. When people are silenced or publicly shamed for sharing basic information, not outlandish claims, it's a psyop, no matter what. Public shaming is a key component. Look at the Harvard and Stanford doctors who were removed from the internet for disagreeing. The Great Barrington Declaration is another example; people who disagreed with the government's approach were silenced and treated as fringe, not respected physicians. Even crazier, these strategies of silencing dissenters were openly discussed in emails. The government contacted Twitter to remove people. Mark Zuckerberg even spoke about the FBI contacting Facebook. Hopefully, people have learned from the past four years and recognize this behavior.

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Speaker 0: Do you think that someone sat in a room and that people discussed the best ways to get people to comply? Speaker 1: Yes. Oh, yes. I would I would bet my career because it was executed following textbook protocol. And there are these I made a YouTube video on my channel of like how to spot psyops, and there's like 20 different little things. You only need one. One thing, and you can spot whether or not you're standing in the middle of a psyop. That one thing is if the opinion that's coming out needs people to be silenced, it's a SIOP. There's there are psychological operations in play. Wow. Speaker 0: So if you can't question it, if you're supposed to just go along, it's a psyop. Speaker 1: Yeah. And if and if people have to be silenced or or publicly shamed because of their because of their information, and they're not telling people the sky is falling. They're not they're not saying crazy shit. Mhmm. They're just saying basic stuff, and they need to be silenced. That is a SIOP. No matter what, you can go back in any any time in history during a SIOP of our country, and if people needed to be silenced or shamed publicly, which is like the tribe. Right? That's why public speaking is our number one fear for for humans. It's not a fear of speaking. It's a fear of judgment. Right. So I'm I'm just putting the threat of judgment out there. That is a psyop. So if people have to be silenced, and they were Harvard doctors kicked off of the Internet or kicked off Yeah. Twitter for for this stuff. Speaker 0: Yeah. And and that's Stanford, MIT. Speaker 1: Yeah. That's all you need. Speaker 0: Yeah. The the great Barrington Declaration. People didn't agree with exactly how the government was handling everything, and they were silenced. And they were treated like fringe quacks instead of respected physicians. And it was openly discussed in emails. That's what's really crazy. They they they talked about the strategy of silencing these people. And then you had the actual government itself contacting Twitter, trying to get people removed, which is wild. Speaker 1: Hey. And didn't you didn't you have Mark Zuckerberg on? He talked about Mhmm. Speaker 0: Yeah. Talked about Facebook doing it, about the FBI contacting them. It's it's crazy to believe, but my hope is that people have learned from this past four years and that this is Speaker 1: an Speaker 0: eye opener.

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The Left has built a vast censorship enterprise over the past decade, leveraging a coalition of NGOs, tech companies, and government agencies to suppress dissent, particularly targeting conservative voices. The Biden administration intensified this effort, creating a system where former officials and private groups collaborate closely. This includes funding organizations that blacklist conservative media and pressure tech platforms to alter their algorithms. While some government entities have been dismantled under President Trump, many private censorship groups remain active, and the investigation into their operations continues.

@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

The censorship-industrial complex wasn't built overnight. It's been festering for years. But the Biden administration mobilized an unholy alliance of government power, taxpayer dollars, NGOs and Big Tech companies to build it into a global censorship powerhouse.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Seemingly every agency was a partner in building this system: FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, State Department, Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, USAID—even FEMA. Through grants and partnerships, these agencies funneled countless tax dollars to censorship groups. https://t.co/GahTDypN0Z

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

What you have to understand is that these groups operate as one cohesive class. There's a revolving door between the "public" and "private" spheres. Former government officials populate the advisory boards of these "disinformation" groups—and vice versa. https://t.co/jspbxJHAIW

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

The groups behind the X/Twitter ad boycott say they're "nongovernmental," but they're not. They're funded by governments, work with intel agencies, and/or were caught spying for governments. Congress & UK Parliament must investigate this government-backed assault on free speech. https://t.co/bl3T3zwSv7

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Biden's transition team was STACKED with tech insiders. They staffed the entire executive branch—State, Treasury, EPA, OMB, etc. Many of them were Obama alumni. When Obama left office, they went to work in tech. When Biden's presidency began, they transitioned right back in. https://t.co/JLJxbD0amy

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

So it should come as no surprise that these worlds are in constant communication with one another. Remember Jen Psaki boasting that they were "flagging problematic posts" for Facebook? These weren't independent actors. Under the Biden administration, it was one system. https://t.co/m2HyXSkZo4

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

And Biden officials didn't just "flag" content. They pushed platforms to transform their algorithms to suppress ideas they disliked. In an email, Biden's Digital Director told YouTube that "this is a concern that is shared at the highest (and I mean highest) levels of the WH." https://t.co/ygBLdqFIuX

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Those are just a few minor examples of a trend that accelerated over the past decade: Western governments creating, funding or coordinating with powerful outside groups to clamp down on (mostly right-wing) dissent. Just look at the State Department's "Global Engagement Center." https://t.co/ea8PHzxanq

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Between 2020 and 2021, two State Department-backed entities—the Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the National Endowment for Democracy—funneled $665,000 to the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British nonprofit which creates secretive blacklists of conservative media. https://t.co/ApmALKOYPr

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

GDI's blacklists were stealthily fed to advertising companies to financially cripple targeted news outlets. The top 10 outlets on its "disinformation" list are all conservative. GDI's CEO openly boasted that this had "a significant impact on" the outlets' "advertising revenue." https://t.co/k37XXgyPVF

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The GEC was created to combat FOREIGN propaganda aimed at undermining US security. But instead, it was turned inwards on our own citizens. We've seen this stuff happen across our intelligence and security agencies. I fought to shutter the GEC—for good. https://t.co/Zfmi7fDlIU

@SenEricSchmitt - Senator Eric Schmitt

The Global Engagement Center must be excluded from any subsequent piece of legislation for the remainder of the 118th Congress. The American people deserve to know their First Amendment rights are being protected. https://t.co/dxU8V5clAz

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

During the 2020 election—under President Trump's first term—the Department of Homeland Security's CISA formed a "counter-disinformation" coalition with powerful outside censorship groups. Here's what that network did during that election cycle alone, per @FFO_Freedom's analysis: https://t.co/XbeAfYln84

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

This system operates across the borders of the West—giving it yet another way around our Constitution. When their censorship machine faced legal challenges in the US, Biden officials and their nonprofit allies began using foreign censorship laws to crack down on American speech. https://t.co/pvZ3tMoSAt

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

At least 23 US-funded NGOs, nonprofits and "disinformation" groups have received nearly $15.5 million of your tax dollars to help enforce the EU's draconian new Digital Services Act—which levies hefty fines on tech platforms (including US platforms) for allowing "disinformation." https://t.co/mCcBfjMSiH

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

In other words: Using these groups, our government was helping European bureaucrats bully US tech companies into censoring American speech. That includes groups like NewsGuard—whose advisory board has boasted the former heads of the CIA and NSA, DHS, and the GEC, respectively. https://t.co/WQekCCwPVl

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

To sum things up: American and European bureaucrats, along with their friends in the NGOs and the tech companies, have been working together to wage a war of censorship and suppression against their own citizens across the West.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

I fought this censorship-industrial complex as Attorney General of Missouri, where I sued the Biden admin for pressuring tech platforms into censoring conservatives—and took them to the Supreme Court. Now it's time to work with President Trump to end this once and for all. https://t.co/hUPYmxdyX2

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Thankfully, President Trump is dismantling the government arm of this regime. The State Department's Global Engagement Center has been shut down. Funding streams for "disinformation" groups have been cut. But many of the "private" censorship NGOs are still operating as we speak. https://t.co/jX9d5Nkri2

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The stories I've shared in this thread are just the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned. This fight is just getting started.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

We’re going to continue this NGO investigation. I discussed today with @dbongino: https://t.co/XY7a1DdVm2

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Government officials allegedly coerced Facebook and Twitter to censor posts via threatening emails, according to the transcript. A Biden White House official, Rob Flaherty, purportedly sent explicit threats to Facebook demanding content removal. High-ranking government officials had a special portal to flag content to senior executives at Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, outsourcing censorship. Universities like Stanford and the University of Washington were allegedly used to flag "wrong think," which then led to government pressure on social media companies. The speaker asserts this network, like the "story of COVID," was about power and control, with entities exceeding their authority. The OSHA vaccine mandate is cited as an example of an agency overstepping its original purpose.

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Speaker 0: Some of the coercion that was coming from government officials, to Facebook and and and Twitter now at the time, now acts pre Elon. We have the emails. What was his name? Rob Flaherty. He was a Biden White House official who was sending I'm not just gonna say implicitly threatening emails, explicitly threatening emails to Facebook, basically saying, hey. Be a real shame, you know, if your place burned down, if you don't take this post down. I mean, it was almost like organized crime mob like tactics. You can read the emails yourself, folks. They're all public, but that's what you were dealing with in this case. Speaker 1: And they had a special portal, Dan, that a special portal between high ranking government officials and senior executives at Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, where they were flagging things, they were using the full force of the government to to outsource their censorship. And, you know, talking about the NGOs, and we're gonna I had a I had a thread, if anybody wants to go on X today, a thread laying some of this stuff out. We're gonna continue this NGO investigation because even in that case, we discovered that that universities like Stanford and the University of Washington were being used, to to flag some of this, what they believed was wrong think, and then the government would put pressure on social media companies. So this was a vast network that was all about much like the story of COVID, really, was all about power and control. That's what this was. And people who never should have had it in the first place had way too much of it, and they were willing to exercise it in ways that were unimaginable. Think about the OSHA vaccine mandate, Dan. Like, you know Yeah. That was a that was an agency created to make sure forklifts beeped when they back up, not force a medical procedure on a hundred million people.

@Eric_Schmitt — Eric Schmitt

Posted - March 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Saved - March 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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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

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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

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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

@DefiyantlyFree — Insurrection Barbie

Posted - March 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM

Saved - March 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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I’ve been reviewing color revolutions and their tactics, which aim to create division and disruption. These mass protest movements, often backed by foreign entities like NED and USAID, typically arise after disputed elections. Historical examples include Serbia's Otpor!, Ukraine's Orange Revolution, and Georgia's Rose Revolution, all following a similar destabilization playbook. Tactics involve exploiting grievances, amplifying dissent through media, and undermining national institutions. The ultimate goal is to fracture regimes and reshape political orders to align with U.S. interests.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

🧵🧵 Let’s review color revolutions. Since we are in the middle of one, I think it’s time to brush up on the tactics. At its core, the purpose of a color revolution is to create division and disruption.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

What’s a color revolution? It’s a mass protest movement that overthrows a regime—usually after a disputed election. But it’s rarely organic. These movements are engineered with foreign backing and a toolbox of psychological and social warfare.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

The players: •NED (National Endowment for Democracy) •USAID •U.S. State Department •Open Society Foundations (Soros) They fund, train, and arm “civil society” in info war, protest choreography, and regime change logistics.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

Serbia (2000): Otpor! got >$30 million from USAID/NED to take down Milosevic. They trained in nonviolent resistance, media manipulation, and symbolic branding. Graffiti, slogans, flash mobs. All made-for-TV resistance.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

Ukraine (2004 & 2014): Orange Revolution & Euromaidan had deep U.S. fingerprints. NED and OSF backed youth orgs, bloggers, and “independent media.” Victoria Nuland handed out cookies. Behind the scenes? Millions in funding.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

Georgia (2003): The “Rose Revolution” followed the exact same script. Open Society’s local office bankrolled youth groups, staged protests, and created media pressure for Shevardnadze’s resignation.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

Now let’s talk tactics: These aren’t spontaneous. They follow a tested destabilization playbook: •Exploit real grievances (corruption, inflation, censorship) •Amplify with social media and foreign-funded news •Encourage polarization: divide society by class, race, region, or language •Undermine national institutions (e.g. courts, police, elections) •Brand the regime as “illegitimate” and push for early elections or foreign intervention Try to apply that to what you see around you and connect the dots.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

One core strategy: create parallel legitimacy. You elevate “activists,” NGOs, and civil society leaders as moral authorities. Their narratives replace the government’s, and suddenly unelected voices are shaping national policy—with Western backing. The goal isn’t just protest—it’s regime fracture. Get police to refuse orders. Split the military. Turn elites into defectors. Pressure judges and election officials. Force the government to collapse or surrender.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

USAID even built fake apps to radicalize people—like “ZunZuneo” in Cuba. It looked like Twitter but was actually a covert U.S. tool to stir unrest from within. The State Department steers the ship. NED and USAID are the arms. Open Society spreads the ideology. This is soft regime change via social engineering—and it’s been used from Latin America to Central Asia. Color revolutions divide societies on purpose. They weaponize identity, class tension, and regional grievances. Then they reshape the political order to match U.S. geopolitical interests. Pay attention.

@pepesgrandma — Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

Posted - May 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM

Saved - May 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM

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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.

@DataRepublican — DataRepublican (small r)

Posted - May 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM

Saved - May 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM

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I recently explored how George Soros and the National Endowment for Democracy have influenced global regime changes using taxpayer money. My findings reveal that Soros-backed groups have manipulated elections, blacklisted candidates, and even drafted foreign legislation. Polls were not just for measuring public opinion but were used to shape political landscapes. I also noted Soros's collaboration with both Republican and Democratic NGOs, explaining his continued presence in America. Additionally, he played a role in drafting Afghanistan's constitution in 2004, with mixed results.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

🚨 New Substack Drop: How Soros and the NED Engineered Global Regime Change... with Your Tax Dollars 🇺🇸💸 I ran every issue of the Journal of Democracy (NED’s house organ) through AI to search for Soros references. And what I found is jaw-dropping. 🗳️ Soros-backed groups ran exit polls to discredit elections (Moldova 2009) 📋 “Civil society” NGOs blacklisted candidates before votes (Romania 2004) 🧠 Activists were flown across borders to learn how to topple regimes (Georgia’s Rose Revolution) 🏛️ Soros-funded institutes literally wrote legislation and drafted constitutions abroad 📊 Polling was used not just to measure opinion—but to shape political climates ahead of transitions 💼 Western-backed coalitions targeted resource control (oil & gas) under the banner of “transparency” 📖 Read the full exposé now (link below).

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https://datarepublican.substack.com/p/soros-and-the-ned-foreign-regime

Soros and the NED: Foreign Regime Change in the Name of “Democracy” A dive into the Journal of Democracy reveals how the National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros’s Open Society have partnered to reshape foreign policy for decades on our taxpayer dollars. datarepublican.substack.com

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One of the most surprising things I found was the consistent usage of polls to shape opinion ( @honestpollster , @BIGDATAPOLL , @QuantusInsights , @atlas_intel may be interested). https://t.co/hFtZtWLTY9

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Another surprising thing I found is that Soros consistently cooperates with Uniparty NGOs. If you're wondering why he hasn't been banned from America, it's because both Republicans and Democrats work with him. https://t.co/5lBKng3Rqz

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Soros was involved in the 2004 drafting of the Afghanistan constitution. We all know how that went. @CynicalPublius is going to be livid. https://t.co/OJtdLY1nKK

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Posted - May 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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I just launched the NED Network Navigator, an AI-powered tool that analyzes the Journal of Democracy archive from the National Endowment for Democracy. It connects authors, NGOs, and articles, revealing the intricate relationships between nonprofits and think tanks. The tool offers instant context summaries, detects roles of authors linked to NED-funded NGOs, and allows for quick financial cross-checks. This initiative aims to expose the narrative-building practices of NED, challenging the portrayal of their activities as democracy promotion. Explore the network and draw your own conclusions.

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🚨 ANNOUNCING NEW TOOL: NED NETWORK NAVIGATOR (BETA) 🚨 🧠 AI-POWERED. CONGRESSIONALLY FUNDED. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I just shipped a crawler-indexer that rips apart the National Endowment for Democracy’s flagship Journal of Democracy archive — then stitches every author, NGO, and article summary into one laser-focused query interface. This is more than search; this is x-raying a decades-old influence machine at machine scale. Here’s what it does: ✅ Link the Whole Web – One click surfaces every author ↔ NGO ↔ article connection, exposing the revolving door between grant-hungry nonprofits, State-adjacent think tanks, and “independent” scholars. ✅ Instant Context Summaries – AI distills thousands of pages so you see the thesis, not the fluff. No more slogging through academic euphemisms. ✅ Prefix Hunter Mode – Type “color rev” and catch every variant (“color revolution,” “color-coded revolutions,” etc.) that editors bury in footnotes. ✅ Role Detector – Flags when an author quietly moonlights on an NGO board funded by NED dollars. ✅ NGO Cross-Check – Pull EIN links straight to ProPublica filings; follow the money in two clicks. ✅ Source-First Design – Every claim traces back to the PDF or http://muse.jhu.org page, so NED can’t cry “misinformation.” Why this matters: For 40 years NED has branded regime-change lobbying as “democracy promotion,” funneling your tax money into overseas activists while scolding domestic populists as threats. Their own journal is the narrative factory — academics launder talking points that later justify sanctions, censorship, or NATO expansions. By making the entire archive searchable, we finally turn the microscope back on the operatives who insist they’re safeguarding freedom. This is what happens when you weaponize code instead of platitudes. 👇 Dig in, map the network, and decide for yourself: [link in next post]

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https://datarepublican.com/ned/?keywords=ndi&mode=Article&id=922834

NED Journal of Democracy Index Tracking where the money goes datarepublican.com

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cc: @MikeBenzCyber

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@MikeBenzCyber Take note of the reference to cooperation between Open Society and NDI in the link above. As I mentioned, the U.S. government works with Soros. Try searching for Open Society, Soros, etc.

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@MikeBenzCyber And look at all the Open Society Foundation members who are NED authors: https://datarepublican.com/ned/?keywords=ndi&mode=NGO&id=Open+Society+Foundations+%28OSI+%2F+FPOS%29

NED Journal of Democracy Index Tracking where the money goes datarepublican.com

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Posted - May 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Saved - May 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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I launched a new tool that indexes the National Endowment for Democracy's Journal of Democracy, revealing connections between Open Society Foundation staff funded by George Soros and a U.S. government-backed journal. This tool allows users to explore the intricate relationships among authors, NGOs, and articles, highlighting the influence of grant-seeking nonprofits and think tanks. It provides instant context summaries and tracks funding sources, exposing how taxpayer money is used in overseas activism while framing it as democracy promotion.

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🔥💥 EXPOSED: Soros, the Deep State & the Shadow Network 💥🔥 Today, I launched a powerful new tool that indexes the National Endowment for Democracy journal... and here's what it uncovers: 🔍 Dozen-plus Open Society Foundation staff, funded by George Soros, are writing in a U.S. government-backed journal. 🇺🇸 That journal is part of our taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-government operation tied to foreign "democracy" missions- and Congress sits on its board. No conspiracy theories. This is hard data. 📎 This proves Soros and our intelligence apparatus are deeply intertwined.

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Data Republican released a tool indexing the National Endowment for Democracy Journal, aggregating authors, articles, and NGOs. The speaker claims this tool proves George Soros and the government collaborate. The National Endowment for Democracy is described as a government-financed NGO involved in intelligence operations, with congressional representatives. The speaker highlights authors in the journal affiliated with the Open Society Foundation, asserting that many Open Society Foundation people write for the journal. The speaker points to numerous mentions of Open Society Foundations in the journal's articles. The speaker concludes that this demonstrates the government's deep involvement with George Soros, portraying him as a deep insider within the intelligence community.

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Speaker 0: So my daughter, Data Republican, released a tool which indexes the National Endowment for Democracy Journal. It aggregates all the authors, articles, and NGOs together. Here is the page for Open Society Foundation, which is George Soros. Now Data Republican has been saying that George Soros and the government work together, and this journal proves it. Remember, the National Endowment for Democracy is our government financed NGO, which does a lot of our intelligence operations, and we have congressional representatives sitting on there. You see the people here? These are all the authors in the journal who belong to the Open Society Foundation. So we have people who work for George Soros who are writing for this journal. You can see there are many, many Open Society Foundation people writing for this journal. Now these are the articles in the journal where Open Society Foundations is mentioned. You see how many mentions there are? Again, this is a quasi government publication. This is not a conspiracy theory. This proves our government is very deeply involved with George Soros. He is a deep insider within our intelligence community.

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🚨 ANNOUNCING NEW TOOL: NED NETWORK NAVIGATOR (BETA) 🚨 🧠 AI-POWERED. CONGRESSIONALLY FUNDED. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I just shipped a crawler-indexer that rips apart the National Endowment for Democracy’s flagship Journal of Democracy archive — then stitches every author, NGO, and article summary into one laser-focused query interface. This is more than search; this is x-raying a decades-old influence machine at machine scale. Here’s what it does: ✅ Link the Whole Web – One click surfaces every author ↔ NGO ↔ article connection, exposing the revolving door between grant-hungry nonprofits, State-adjacent think tanks, and “independent” scholars. ✅ Instant Context Summaries – AI distills thousands of pages so you see the thesis, not the fluff. No more slogging through academic euphemisms. ✅ Prefix Hunter Mode – Type “color rev” and catch every variant (“color revolution,” “color-coded revolutions,” etc.) that editors bury in footnotes. ✅ Role Detector – Flags when an author quietly moonlights on an NGO board funded by NED dollars. ✅ NGO Cross-Check – Pull EIN links straight to ProPublica filings; follow the money in two clicks. ✅ Source-First Design – Every claim traces back to the PDF or http://muse.jhu.org page, so NED can’t cry “misinformation.” Why this matters: For 40 years NED has branded regime-change lobbying as “democracy promotion,” funneling your tax money into overseas activists while scolding domestic populists as threats. Their own journal is the narrative factory — academics launder talking points that later justify sanctions, censorship, or NATO expansions. By making the entire archive searchable, we finally turn the microscope back on the operatives who insist they’re safeguarding freedom. This is what happens when you weaponize code instead of platitudes. 👇 Dig in, map the network, and decide for yourself: [link in next post]

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Direct link to the page - you can click through and see all the mentions and citations: https://datarepublican.com/ned/?keywords=open+society&mode=NGO&id=Open+Society+Foundations+%28OSI+%2F+FPOS%29

NED Journal of Democracy Index Tracking where the money goes datarepublican.com

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Posted - July 10, 2023 at 2:10 PM

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In my extensive investigation, I uncovered the collaboration between NGOs and governments on social media and offline. The State Department's GEC partnered with Drog to develop AMITT, an information security framework to combat disinformation. The Blue Team framework is their response to disinformation. I discovered the GitHub page that explains how AMITT works and its upgrade to the DISARM framework used for Covid disinfo. Sara J Terp's tweet and article led me to more insights. SJ Terp, along with others, worked on adapting information security tools for countering hybrid incidents. The Blue Team counters include doxing, cutting off banking access, and infiltrating groups. Read the intro first for more details.

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1. More on my huge expose’: Essentially I found how NGO’s and gov work together on social media and OFF LINE too. I highly suggest you read the last doc in this tweet, it explains their methods. Earlier I introduced you to the word, “Amitt” (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques). I found this thru the State Dept GEC partnered org called Drog. AMITT, is an information security-based framework for responding to disinfo. ➡️ How they do this is the interesting part. ⬅️ It’s very important to know this. 👇🏻 ♦️The Blue Team framework is how THEY RESPOND to disinformation.♦️ I found a GitHub page that led me to everything there is to know about how AMITT works. AMITT was later upgraded to the DISARM framework and used for Covid disinfo in coordination with Chris Krebs (CTI League). More on this later. And it’s also how I found Sara J Terp which led to a tweet and an article she was in. More on the article later. Tweet archive https://archive.is/0y56y Sara said there would be no more secrets, so I took her up on this. Thank you Sara! Also listed under her tweet was a very interesting article that led me to finding additional history on Amitt. I was also introduced to Sofwerx and her work pals. This is coming up next and very interesting! “2017-2018: SJ Terp starts working on adapting information security tools, processes, and procedures for disinformation use. She links up with JJ Snow, Pablo Breuer, the usual collection of infosec geeks, and the SOFWERX team to work on characterising and countering hybrid incidents (cybersecurity plus disinformation, noting that information operations have always included this).” GitHub link - there’s all kinds of links and goodies. https://github.com/DISARMFoundation/DISARMframeworks/ Archive of page: https://archive.is/BocFC Next we will review AMITT a tiny bit further using a document that describes how Blue Team responds to each incident. You really need to read the Blue Team counters. This is an entire doc of responses. Here’s one example of counters for rallies and protests. 🔹Doxing (Name and Shame) 🔹Cut off Banking Access 🔹Infiltrate Groups 🔹Etc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kc0O7owFyGiYs8N8wSq17gRUPEDQsD5lLUL_3KGCgRE Doc Archive https://archive.is/YKzBr 🔸List your favorite counters in a reply! I’ll review AMITT/DISARM more a bit later. This was just to acquaint you. Make certain to read the intro first.

GitHub - DISARMFoundation/DISARMframeworks: Master copies of the DISARM frameworks, with generated files to help you explore the data Master copies of the DISARM frameworks, with generated files to help you explore the data - GitHub - DISARMFoundation/DISARMframeworks: Master copies of the DISARM frameworks, with generated files to help you explore the data github.com

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