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🔥🔥🔥 Thread: Dec 2021 summit, “Biden” announces control of the worlds internet and news. I’ve covered the internet, now for the news. “International Fund for Public Interest Media” A partisan Biden appointed NGO with State dept seed money now controls the press worldwide.
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“In addition to making our own assessments of whether recipients have abided by professional journalism ethics such as accuracy and fairness, we will substantially be guided by the public's own judgements of whether they consider coverage is of relevance and is trustworthy.
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The non partisan people running this new international NGO that the Biden admin set up, come from: Obamas former staff, and folks from Twitter, CNN, BBC, UN, Open Society, and the NY Times etc. https://ifpim.org/about/
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Cross referencing the Internet part. Here, “Biden”, has skirted US law, congress, and the Supreme Court to set up an international alliance for the internet. Non compliance has adverse affects. https://mobile.twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1520702159834296320
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1. TWITTER FILES: Internal documents from @Twitter find Brown University's @cward1e provides research that helps censor.
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2. After years of working with disinformation researchers, reporters ignore that these "academics" aid in censoring. How do we know these campus employees censor? They sometimes admit it.
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3. Before the 2020 election, Stanford's Alex Stamos said at the Commonwealth Fund, "Our goal is to operationalise our work." Seriously, he said this out loud.
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4. Like University of Washington professor Kate Starbird, Stamos serves on the advisory committee of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA--a DHS agency
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5. In fact, Stanford's Stamos formed the Krebs Stamos Group with the former head of CISA, Chris Krebs. I'm not joking. It's right there on the website.
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5. The Chair of CISA's advisory committee is Tom Fanning, the CEO of Southern Company. @SenWhitehouse called out Southern Company for funding climate change disinformation. So why is he ignoring this today?
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6. A central figure in Big Disinformation is researcher Claire Wardle. With Google money in 2015, Wardle formed First Draft which claimed to be “the world’s foremost non-profit organisation focused on research and practice to tackle misinformation and disinformation.”
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7. Guess who came calling? I tripped over this document marked “for official use only” that finds Wardle had also been chosen to brief CISA’s advisory committee. CISA says they will get back to explain how often Wardle briefed them.
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8. Wardle was also involved in this Ted event on vaccines. The invite to Twitter was sent by Alexios Mantzarlis. A former fact checker, Mantzarlis has since joined Google where he focuses on misinformation.
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9. “This is too important a topic to not share lessons,” Mantzarlis emailed, stating that goals were to create a list of relevant information on vaccines that could be converted into advice for social media platforms. QUESTION: What is Big Disinformation's obsession w/ vaccines?
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10. But when a Twitter official asked for more information, Wardle responded, “Sorry you weren’t able to attend the event on the 30th. It ended up being a really great conversation, with real emphasis on quality information around vaccines.”
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11. Shortly after Trump lost in 2020, Pfizer released initial, preliminary findings for their COVID vaccine. This was November 9, 2020.
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12. Days later, Wardle rushes out a report on vaccine misinformation. She sends Twitter a looky-look the day before she releases the report.
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13. “Hello my lovely friends,” Wardle emailed. “I had hoped this week would be full of relaxing massages and cupcakes. Instead it’s more election nonsense and a Pfizer announcement that forced us to push up our planned release of new research on online vaccine narratives.”
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14. “Hello my lovely friends,” Wardle emailed. “I had hoped this week would be full of relaxing massages and cupcakes. Instead it’s more election nonsense and a Pfizer announcement that forced us to push up our planned release of new research on online vaccine narratives.”
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15. QUESTION: How often do academics put out white papers like this to promote a corporate product? Does this seem scholarly? But wait, the report on "misinformation" contains misinformation, of course.
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16. Wardle claimed in her report that vaccine mandates are “one of the prominent anti-vaccination narratives”—a narrative which, oddly enough, proved to be accurate when US companies as well as state and federal agencies began mandating COVID vaccines.
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17. Did Wardle's First Draft correct their report. Nope. They just lurched forward in support of vaccine mandates, by publishing blog posts with headlines that described discussions around mandated vaccinations as “disinformation” as well.
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18. Since Wardle released her report, one authors joined the global PR firm M&C Saatchi as an analyst. Surprise! M&C Saatchi has a contract w/ the Australian government to censor its citizens.
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19. M&C Saatchi's contract came out in an Australian Senate hearing weeks back.
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20. Meanwhile, one of Wardle's researchers joined the British government in 2021 as a “counter-disinformation product lead.” Have you been reading the British press? Surprise! More censorship.
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21. BTW, as people investigate these campus employees for censorship, guess who's stepping in to stop FOIA disclosure of documents? Surprise! @lhfang found it's CISA.
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22. Read more here and please subscribe https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files-brown-universitys-claire
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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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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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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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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-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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Google seed money funded First Draft news, which was a MAJOR disinfo network. First Draft had huge links to the Integrity Initiative with British Intelligence and CIA NED connections. It just seems all too coincidental that Google may possibly be linked to the starts of VineSight too.
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🚨🚨🧵 Breaking new evidence! The first ever US censorship and propaganda is 100% linked to Britains 77th Brigade psyop unit, Integrity Initiative and Google! First Draft News which recently renamed is what ran this all! Watch my new evidence unfold! First Draft Network👇🏻 https://t.co/wnx2bc4Tjy
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🔥🔥Let’s begin. The World Economic Forum is 💯 connected to Newsguard. Newsguard was initially SEED funded majorly by Publicis Group. Which later partnered with them. Publicis group also runs Publicis Live which runs all World Economic Forum activities in Davos, including apartment rentals. Yes every damn meeting by the WEF is handled by the main seed funder of Newsguard. Then in 2021 Publicis partnered with them too. Newsguard also partners with the US state department, DOD, and the UK Government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Hey @ThierryBreton shall I go there you snot rag? Publicis, partnered with Newsguard, also bought their way into 260 million American Citizens data thru Epsilon. Sooo… Newsguard is invading the privacy of Americans. Ha! Major snafu you fool! But this also involves the CIA connected Google. You don’t think Bad kitteh would let you off this easy would you? All sources to follow, because Ima biatch. And @elonmusk thank you for the Search Suggestion Ban. You are all heart.
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And Elon, let this go because I am right. I’m your biggest defender and you did this to me. You cut me like no knife could. You totally owe me. Now for the Sources below 👇🏻
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Ok, the evidence on everything and to be continued in next posts: The lead investor in Newsguard, among a group of 18 investors, is Publicis Groupe https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2018-03-05/publicis-groupe-brill-and-crovitz-announce-launch-of-newsguard-to-fight-fake-news 2019 NewsGuard has raised about $6 million at a valuation of around $20 million. Its biggest corporate backer is Publicis, an advertising holding company. https://web.archive.org/web/20190116132312/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/business/media/media-steve-brill-fake-news.html Ok we have this down pat… Now Newsguard and Publicis are partners: NewsGuard, Publicis Groupe Partner to Combat Misinformation and Disinformation on Behalf of Advertising Clients Publicis Groupe is leveraging NewsGuard and HealthGuard offerings to bring more transparency and trust, boosting advertising on trusted news sites Through the partnership, Publicis Groupe clients will gain access to NewsGuard’s Responsible Advertising for News Segments (RANS) Publicis Groupe’s healthcare media agency, Publicis Health Media, also recently partnered with NewsGuard on the launch of its HealthGuard browser https://archive.is/hwyyM Publicis formed a group-wide partnership with NewsGuard to provide its agencies and clients with access to BrandGuard, NewsGuard’s product for advertisers enabling them to curate trusted news inclusion lists and misinformation exclusion lists to be used with their programmatic advertising. This tool provides Publicis clients with a constantly updated exclusion list to protect them from having their ads unintentionally fund thousands of misinformation and hoax websites. https://web.archive.org/web/20220119114005/https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Publicis-Groupe-BrandGuard.pdf *Investor becomes partner May 25, 2021 NewsGuard, Publicis Groupe Partner to Combat Misinformation and Disinformation on Behalf of Advertising Clients Publicis Groupe’s healthcare media agency, Publicis Health Media, also recently partnered with NewsGuard on the launch of its HealthGuard browser plug-in to power a new public service campaign, “VaxFacts,” following a rise in misinformation and hoaxes relating to the COVID-19 health crisis and vaccine development. NewsGuard: this exclusive partnership gives all Publicis Groupe clients access to the “Responsible Advertising in the media” tool (“RANS” Responsible Advertising for New Segments), which allows them to include or exclude sites, in order to prevent their ads from unintentionally funding infox or misinformation or disinformation sites. The Epsilon database, which includes 260 million American profiles (TSP – Total Source Plus), from more than 40 different sources, is refreshed every six weeks, to ensure the success of targeted actions or the activation of certain consumer Groupes. Ad Net Zero: Publicis UK is one of the founding entities of the sector initiative led by the British agency inter-professional body. Blackrock holds over 14 million shares Member of the United Nations Global Compact, participation in international institutional events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos As a member of the Global Compact of the United Nations, the Groupe is also a partner and/or signatory: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617083511/https://www.publicishealthmedia.com/perspective/newsguard-publicis-groupe-press-release/
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Here you find evidence that Newsguard partners with the United States and European Union. You also learn about the Newsguard partner called Pulsar which runs under Access Intelligence. Access Intelligence is an umbrella org that covers a bunch. Pulsar says Tesla is the #1 misinfo spreader, ever. Pulsar and Access Intelligence both have Twitter as clients. Access intelligence also works with the public sector (government) ———————————— Newsguard partneres with state dept , DOD UK, and WHO etc👇🏻 https://archive.is/vNka2 NewsGuard wins State Department contest to track foreign disinformation In 2020, NewsGuard was selected as a winner of a contest run by the National Security Innovation Network, a joint State Department and Department of Defense group seeking solutions that would help the agencies “evaluate disinformation narrative themes in near real time.” https://web.archive.org/web/20211018090847/https://www.newsguardtech.com/industries/security-and-defense/ The UK Government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) analyzes public conversations to inform government policy and communications with the help of Pulsar and its NewsGuard integration. Tackle the spread of false narratives and inform policy and government communications. https://archive.is/oWCNH Pulsar is also partnered with Newsguard “We've teamed up with NewsGuard to create the Misinformation Risk Index - Brands.” https://sg.linkedin.com/posts/rob-hill-a0a29846_conspiracies-activity-6948260824796807168-2l92?trk=public_profile_like_view Meanwhile, Newsguard partner, Pulsar, compiles a weekly Misinformation Risk Index, tabulating the frequency and reach of mentions on what it calls “unreliable news and information sites.” A partner, NewsGuard, ranks media outlets’ reliability, basing ratings on 9 credibility and transparency factors. In Chart 1, Tesla ranks as the company most associated with misinformation. It also has the dubious honor of leading the list of firms associated with misleading ESG information (Chart 2). https://www.prnewsonline.com/my-way-or-the-highway-vendors-measure-misinformation-and-disinformation/ Pulsar's new integration with NewsGuard is helping brands identify misinformation in the news content they analyze. From supporting newsrooms through content licensing to providing services that help journalists find interview subjects, everything we do at Access Intelligence Plc supports a healthier news ecosystem. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaykrall_pulsars-new-integration-with-newsguard-is-activity-6954836132740153344-hrfB?trk=public_profile_like_view Access intelligence and Newsguard integration • Helping customers to understand bias and misinformation in news reporting through our platform with partnerships such as Newsguard. This allows them to take positive actions to reduce the impact of such bias or misinformation. https://web.archive.org/web/20230518143832/https://458431.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/458431/Access%20Intelligence%20Reports/Access-Intelligence-Annual-Report-2022.pdf ♦️Pulsar clients include TWITTER and The Guardian etc. ♦️Access intelligence clients: -Twitter -BBC -International monetary fund -HM revenue and customs -Amnesty International -NBC -penguin random house -PR news -Ad -etc https://web.archive.org/web/20230721234649/https://www.accessintelligence.com/our-clients/ Access intelligence used by public sector (gov) https://web.archive.org/web/20230903055613/https://www.accessintelligence.com/ To be continued
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🔥🔥Breaking! Bad Kitteh busts Newsguard and its shady GOOGLE links in multiple ways! In fact, their censorship methodology was acquired from a Google, Omidyar and Soros etc funded partner! A little history first: Recall Google seed funded a humongous censorship apparatus called First Draft News, created on June 18, 2015, and 2 days after Trump announced running. Google also visited the Obama Whitehouse 427 times and Googles Eric Schmidt with an est $1.5 billion budget, ran Hillary’s 2016 campaign with artificial intelligence to sway the media and voters. Newsguard the beginning and GOOGLE PART 1: Nov 3rd and 4th 2017 Gordon Crovitz, the founder of Newsguard attended Newsgeist at Arizona State University (ASU). This is a very rare find. Newsgeist is hosted by Google (both Europe and US programs) and The Knight Foundation (US program only). Born at Newsgeist was Misinfocon. Connected to my major pinned expose’, and more to come later. Jennifer 8 Lee, co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Sport and also co-founded what is now the Newsgeist conference. She also co-founded the Misinfocon conferences and the Credibility Coalition (more later). Also in attendance with Gordon Crovitz, at the Google and Knight Foundation Newsgeist was the other Newsgeist cofounder, Wired’s, Karen Wickre, who was a past editorial board member at Twitter and currently serves on the boards of The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford and the News Literacy Project. At Newsgeist with Gordon Crovitz, was also Craigslist's Craig Newmark, a funder of some of the trust projects. Claire Wardle of First Draft News was also there. And was also a host at the first ever Misinfocon. It just so happens, that along with the WEF partnered Publicis, the hard left, Knight Foundation seed funded Newsguard too. Newsguard and GOOGLE part 2, the Trust Project: “Nuzzel is joining the Trust Project and the Credibility Coalition, and collaborating with other partners such as NewsGuard and http://Deepnews.ai on NuzzelRank.” Never mind that Nuzzel was a Newsguard investment, and the Credibility Coalition is involved in my major pinned exposé. But the Trust Project that partnered with NewsGuard BEFORE they even went live, was funded by: ♦️Craig Newmark Philanthropies ♦️Google ♦️John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ♦️Democracy Fund ♦️Markkula Foundation. Recall that the Omidyar Democracy Fund is a Soros Democracy Alliance partner. And its money is funneled thru Arabella Sixteen Thirty Fund. But it gets better. “Adding to Trust Project’s momentum are new uses of the Trust Indicators by partners in the technology sector. Google, Bing, Facebook, Nuzzel, PEN America and NewsGuard are using them to surface, display or better label journalism on their platforms.” The Trust Indicators from the Trust Project are what Newsguard uses to judge new sites. “NewsGuard: The news literacy company uses the Trust Indicators as a source for rating the transparency and accountability of participating news and information sites.” Boom.. Big bada boom…. Sources to follow. How’s this sweeties? 😁
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Look folks, I risked much. And I’m not going to shut up about this. This post sunk me into a shadow ban. Just like the last one a week ago. Would @elonmusk like l to leave for a week every time to clear one? Only to be destroyed by one post and to start over again? Then why should I?
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
This is a big deal
@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya
In a recent faculty senate meeting. @stanford president Richard Saller claimed that the activities of the Stanford Internet Observatory are simply "research." These documents prove otherwise. It is an integral part of the US federal government's censorship enterprise.
@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz
The author of this new trashfire NBC piece — demanding the censorship industry be protected — got busted in a scandal years ago letting an outside org edit all his pieces pre-publication… What org? The CIA.
@NBCNews - NBC News
A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/gop-muzzled-quiet-coalition-fought-foreign-propaganda-rcna103373?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=654e3e726fd6760001b4887b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Happy Thanksgiving @elonmusk What I presented to you here is likely the biggest exposure of Newsguardys (purposeful misspelling) beginnings by anyone. Lemme explain. Only days prior to the announcement of its beginnings, a cofounder, Crovitz, went to a Google and Knight Foundation incubator event called Newsgeist. If you look in the one photo, Newsguardy was announced on Nov 7, 2017. Only a couple of days after the Newsgeist 2017 event ended. Mention of his Newsgeist attendance was in that very article. The knight foundation of Newsgeist ended up being a seed funder of Newsguardy. Craig Newmark, who also funded First Draft News and many other disinfo orgs was also in attendance. Newsgeist 2017 had the very earliest disinfo folks in attendance. For example, First Draft News, Claire Wardle, was there. First Draft was seed funded by Google in 2015. First Draft was also a host of the first ever misinfocon event. Newsgeist 2016 previously resulted in the incubation of misinfocon also. Misinfocon had proven to be a further incubator event in itself. With CIA linked Mozilla often as a sponsor. Renee Diresta of both Mozilla and CIA was in attendance at Misinfocon events. Expect additional reporting on this by me coming up. Fall and late Winter of 2017 may prove to be an important timeframe for Newsguardy. And I could certainly use some help from our best autisticated researchers. Or did I find enough already? @MikeBenzCyber
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🔥🔥Breaking! Bad Kitteh busts Newsguard and its shady GOOGLE links in multiple ways! In fact, their censorship methodology was acquired from a Google, Omidyar and Soros etc funded partner! A little history first: Recall Google seed funded a humongous censorship apparatus called First Draft News, created on June 18, 2015, and 2 days after Trump announced running. Google also visited the Obama Whitehouse 427 times and Googles Eric Schmidt with an est $1.5 billion budget, ran Hillary’s 2016 campaign with artificial intelligence to sway the media and voters. Newsguard the beginning and GOOGLE PART 1: Nov 3rd and 4th 2017 Gordon Crovitz, the founder of Newsguard attended Newsgeist at Arizona State University (ASU). This is a very rare find. Newsgeist is hosted by Google (both Europe and US programs) and The Knight Foundation (US program only). Born at Newsgeist was Misinfocon. Connected to my major pinned expose’, and more to come later. Jennifer 8 Lee, co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Sport and also co-founded what is now the Newsgeist conference. She also co-founded the Misinfocon conferences and the Credibility Coalition (more later). Also in attendance with Gordon Crovitz, at the Google and Knight Foundation Newsgeist was the other Newsgeist cofounder, Wired’s, Karen Wickre, who was a past editorial board member at Twitter and currently serves on the boards of The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford and the News Literacy Project. At Newsgeist with Gordon Crovitz, was also Craigslist's Craig Newmark, a funder of some of the trust projects. Claire Wardle of First Draft News was also there. And was also a host at the first ever Misinfocon. It just so happens, that along with the WEF partnered Publicis, the hard left, Knight Foundation seed funded Newsguard too. Newsguard and GOOGLE part 2, the Trust Project: “Nuzzel is joining the Trust Project and the Credibility Coalition, and collaborating with other partners such as NewsGuard and http://Deepnews.ai on NuzzelRank.” Never mind that Nuzzel was a Newsguard investment, and the Credibility Coalition is involved in my major pinned exposé. But the Trust Project that partnered with NewsGuard BEFORE they even went live, was funded by: ♦️Craig Newmark Philanthropies ♦️Google ♦️John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ♦️Democracy Fund ♦️Markkula Foundation. Recall that the Omidyar Democracy Fund is a Soros Democracy Alliance partner. And its money is funneled thru Arabella Sixteen Thirty Fund. But it gets better. “Adding to Trust Project’s momentum are new uses of the Trust Indicators by partners in the technology sector. Google, Bing, Facebook, Nuzzel, PEN America and NewsGuard are using them to surface, display or better label journalism on their platforms.” The Trust Indicators from the Trust Project are what Newsguard uses to judge new sites. “NewsGuard: The news literacy company uses the Trust Indicators as a source for rating the transparency and accountability of participating news and information sites.” Boom.. Big bada boom…. Sources to follow. How’s this sweeties? 😁
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So where do I go next. Misinfocon, Renee Diresta and Jonathan Morgan, or Microsoft? I’m thinking in this order. 🔸Microsoft 🔸Renee Diresta and Jonathan Morgan 🔸Misinfocon Although the order could change. Black background photo is from the Credibility Coalition which was incubated at Misinfocon. Note the names including Renee Diresta. See Newsguardy listed on there too as a related project?
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
THE CTIL FILES #1 Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. https://t.co/tqgSQjPIuT
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
CTIL Files #1: US And UK Military Contractors Created Sweeping Plan For Global Censorship In 2018, New Documents Show Whistleblower makes trove of new documents available to Public and Racket, showing the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex in reaction to Brexit and Trump election in 2016 by @shellenberger @galexybrane @mtaibbi US military contractor Pablo Breuer (left), UK defense researcher Sara-Jayne “SJ” Terp (center), and Chris Krebs, former director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS-CISA) A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an “anti-disinformation” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files. Combined, they offer a comprehensive picture of the birth of the “anti-disinformation” sector, or what we have called the Censorship Industrial Complex. The whistleblower's documents describe everything from the genesis of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military and intelligence agencies, partnerships with civil society organizations and commercial media, and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques. "Lock your shit down," explains one document about creating "your spy disguise.” Another explains that while such activities overseas are "typically" done by "the CIA and NSA and the Department of Defense," censorship efforts "against Americans" have to be done using private partners because the government doesn't have the "legal authority." The whistleblower alleges that a leader of CTI League, a “former” British intelligence analyst, was “in the room” at the Obama White House in 2017 when she received the instructions to create a counter-disinformation project to stop a "repeat of 2016." Over the last year, Public, Racket, congressional investigators, and others have documented the rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex, a network of over 100 government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that work together to urge censorship by social media platforms and spread propaganda about disfavored individuals, topics, and whole narratives. The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) has been the center of gravity for much of the censorship, with the National Science Foundation financing the development of censorship and disinformation tools and other federal government agencies playing a supportive role. Emails from CISA’s NGO and social media partners show that CISA created the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) in 2020, which involved the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) and other US government contractors. EIP and its successor, the Virality Project (VP), urged Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to censor social media posts by ordinary citizens and elected officials alike. Despite the overwhelming evidence of government-sponsored censorship, it had yet to be determined where the idea for such mass censorship came from. In 2018, an SIO official and former CIA fellow, Renee DiResta, generated national headlines before and after testifying to the US Senate about Russian government interference in the 2016 election. But what happened between 2018 and Spring 2020? The year 2019 has been a black hole in the research of the Censorship Industrial Complex to date. When one of us, Michael, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives about the Censorship Industrial Complex in March of this year, the entire year was missing from his timeline. An Earlier Start Date for the Censorship Industrial Complex Now, a large trove of new documents, including strategy documents, training videos, presentations, and internal messages, reveal that, in 2019, US and UK military and intelligence contractors led by a former UK defense researcher, Sara-Jayne “SJ” Terp, developed the sweeping censorship framework. These contractors co-led CTIL, which partnered with CISA in the spring of 2020. In truth, the building of the Censorship Industrial Complex began even earlier — in 2018. Internal CTIL Slack messages show Terp, her colleagues, and officials from DHS and Facebook all working closely together in the censorship process. The CTIL framework and the public-private model are the seeds of what both the US and UK would put into place in 2020 and 2021, including masking censorship within cybersecurity institutions and counter-disinformation agendas; a heavy focus on stopping disfavored narratives, not just wrong facts; and pressuring social media platforms to take down information or take other actions to prevent content from going viral. In the spring of 2020, CTIL began tracking and reporting disfavored content on social media, such as anti-lockdown narratives like “all jobs are essential,” “we won’t stay home,” and “open America now.” CTIL created a law enforcement channel for reporting content as part of these efforts. The organization also did research on individuals posting anti-lockdown hashtags like #freeCA and kept a spreadsheet with details from their Twitter bios. The group also discussed requesting “takedowns” and reporting website domains to registrars. CTIL’s approach to “disinformation” went far beyond censorship. The documents show that the group engaged in offensive operations to influence public opinion, discussing ways to promote “counter-messaging,” co-opt hashtags, dilute disfavored messaging, create sock puppet accounts, and infiltrate private invite-only groups. In one suggested list of survey questions, CTIL proposed asking members or potential members, “Have you worked with influence operations (e.g. disinformation, hate speech, other digital harms etc) previously?” The survey then asked whether these influence operations included “active measures” and “psyops.” These documents came to us via a highly credible whistleblower. We were able to independently verify their legitimacy through extensive cross-checking of information to publicly available sources. The whistleblower said they were recruited to participate in CTIL through monthly cybersecurity meetings hosted by DHS. The FBI declined to comment. CISA did not respond to our request for comment. And Terp and the other key CTIL leaders also did not respond to our requests for comment. But one person involved, Bonnie Smalley, replied over Linked in, saying, “all i can comment on is that i joined cti league which is unaffiliated with any govt orgs because i wanted to combat the inject bleach nonsense online during covid…. i can assure you that we had nothing to do with the govt though.” Yet the documents suggest that government employees were engaged members of CTIL. One individual who worked for DHS, Justin Frappier, was extremely active in CTIL, participating in regular meetings and leading trainings. CTIL’s ultimate goal, said the whistleblower, ”was to become part of the federal government. In our weekly meetings, they made it clear that they were building these organizations within the federal government, and if you built the first iteration, we could secure a job for you.” Terp’s plan, which she shared in presentations to information security and cybersecurity groups in 2019, was to create “Misinfosec communities” that would include government. Both public records and the whistleblower’s documents suggest that she achieved this. In April 2020, Chris Krebs, then-Director of CISA, announced on Twitter and in multiple articles, that CISA was partnering with CTIL. “It’s really an information exchange,” said Krebs. The documents also show that Terp and her colleagues, through a group called MisinfoSec Working Group, which included DiResta, created a censorship, influence, and anti-disinformation strategy called Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques (AMITT). They wrote AMITT by adapting a cybersecurity framework developed by MITRE, a major defense and intelligence contractor that has an annual budget of $1 to $2 billion in government funding. Terp later used AMITT to develop the DISARM framework, which the World Health Organization then employed in “countering anti-vaccination campaigns across Europe.” A key component of Terp’s work through CTIL, MisinfoSec, and AMITT was to insert the concept of “cognitive security” into the fields of cybersecurity and information security. The sum total of the documents is a clear picture of a highly coordinated and sophisticated effort by the US and UK governments to build a domestic censorship effort and influence operations similar to the ones they have used in foreign countries. At one point, Terp openly referenced her work “in the background” on social media issues related to the Arab Spring. Another time, the whistleblower said, she expressed her own apparent surprise that she would ever use such tactics, developed for foreign nationals, against American citizens. According to the whistleblower, roughly 12-20 active people involved in CTILworked at the FBI or CISA. “For a while, they had their agency seals — FBI, CISA, whatever — next to your name,” on the Slack messaging service, said the whistleblower. Terp “had a CISA badge that went away at some point,” the whistleblower said. The ambitions of the 2020 pioneers of the Censorship Industrial Complex went far beyond simply urging Twitter to slap a warning label on Tweets, or to put individuals on blacklists. The AMITT framework calls for discrediting individuals as a necessary prerequisite of demanding censorship against them. It calls for training influencers to spread messages. And it calls for trying to get banks to cut off financial services to individuals who organize rallies or events.The timeline of CISA’s work with CTIL leading up to its work with EIP and VP strongly suggests that the model for public-private censorship operations may have originated from a framework originally created by military contractors. What’s more, the techniques and materials outlined by CTIL closely resemble materials later created by CISA’s Countering Foreign Intelligence Task Force and Mis-, Dis-, and Maliformation team. Over the next several days and weeks, we intend to present these documents to Congressional investigators, and will make public all of the documents we can while also protecting the identity of the whistleblower and other individuals who are not senior leaders or public figures. But for now, we need to take a closer look at what happened in 2018 and 2019, leading up to the creation of CTIL, as well as this group’s key role in the formation and growth of the Censorship Industrial Complex.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
“Volunteer” and “Former” Government Agents Bloomberg, Washington Post and others published credulous stories in the spring of 2020 claiming that the CTI League was simply a group of volunteer cybersecurity experts. Its founders were: a “former” Israeli intelligence official, Ohad Zaidenberg; a Microsoft “security manager,” Nate Warfield; and the head of sec ops for DEF CON, a hackers convention, Marc Rogers. The articles claimed that those highly skilled cybercrime professionals had decided to help billion-dollar hospitals, on their own time and without pay, for strictly altruistic motives. In just one month, from mid-March to mid-April, the supposedly all-volunteer CTIL had grown to “1,400 vetted members in 76 countries spanning 45 different sectors,” had “helped to lawfully take down 2,833 cybercriminal assets on the internet, including 17 designed to impersonate government organizations, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization,” and had “identified more than 2,000 vulnerabilities in healthcare institutions in more than 80 countries.” At every opportunity the men stressed that they were simply volunteers motivated by altruism. “I knew I had to do something to help,” said Zaidenberg. ”There is a really strong appetite for doing good in the community,” Rogers said during an Aspen Institute webinar. And yet a clear goal of CTIL’s leaders was to build support for censorship among national security and cybersecurity institutions. Toward that end, they sought to promote the idea of “cognitive security” as a rationale for government involvement in censorship activities. “Cognitive security is the thing you want to have,” said Terp on a 2019 podcast. “You want to protect that cognitive layer. It basically, it’s about pollution. Misinformation, disinformation, is a form of pollution across the Internet.” Terp and Pablo Breuer, another CTIL leader, like Zaidenberg, had backgrounds in the military and were former military contractors. Both have worked for SOFWERX, “a collaborative project of the U.S. Special Forces Command and Doolittle Institute.” The latter transfers Air Force technology, through the Air Force Resource Lab, to the private sector. According to Terp’s bio on the website of a consulting firm she created with Breuer, “She’s taught data science at Columbia University, was CTO of the UN’s big data team, designed machine learning algorithms and unmanned vehicle systems at the UK Ministry of Defence. Breuer is a former US Navy commander. According to his bio, he was “military director of US 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.” Breuer is listed as having been in the Navy during the creation of CTIL on his LinkedIn page. In June, 2018, Terp attended a ten-day military exercise organized by the US Special Operations Command, where she says she first met Breuer and discussed modern disinformation campaigns on social media. Wired summed up the conclusions they drew from their meeting: “Misinformation, they realized, could be treated the same way: as a cybersecurity problem.” And so they created CogSec with David Perlman and another colleague, Thaddeus Grugq, at the lead. In 2019, Terp co-chaired the Misinfosec Working Group within CogSec. Breuer admitted in a podcast that his aim was to bring military tactics to use on social media platforms in the U.S. “I wear two hats,” he explained. “The military director of the Donovan Group, and one of two innovation officers at Sofwerx, which is a completely unclassified 501c3 nonprofit that's funded by U. S. Special Operations Command.” Breuer went on to describe how they thought they were getting around the First Amendment. His work with Terp, he explained, was a way to get “nontraditional partners into one room,” including “maybe somebody from one of the social media companies, maybe a few special forces operators, and some folks from Department of Homeland Security… to talk in a non-attribution, open environment in an unclassified way so that we can collaborate better, more freely and really start to change the way that we address some of these issues.” The Misinfosec report advocated for sweeping government censorship and counter-misinformation. During the first six months of 2019, the authors say, they analyzed “incidents,” developed a reporting system, and shared their censorship vision with “numerous state, treaty and NGOs.” In every incident mentioned, the victims of misinformation were on the political Left, and they included Barack Obama, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and Emmanuel Macron. The report was open about the fact that its motivation for counter-misinformation were the twin political earthquakes of 2016: Brexit and the election of Trump. “A study of the antecedents to these events lead us to the realization that there’s something off kilter with our information landscape,” wrote Terp and her co-authors. “The usual useful idiots and fifth columnists—now augmented by automated bots, cyborgs and human trolls—are busily engineering public opinion, stoking up outrage, sowing doubt and chipping away at trust in our institutions. And now it’s our brains that are being hacked.” The Misinfosec report focused on information that “changes beliefs” through “narratives,” and recommended a way to counter misinformation by attacking specific links in a “kill chain” or influence chain from the misinfo “incident” before it becomes a full-blown narrative. The report laments that governments and corporate media no longer have full control of information. “For a long time, the ability to reach mass audiences belonged to the nation-state (e.g. in the USA via broadcast licensing through ABC, CBS and NBC). Now, however, control of informational instruments has been allowed to devolve to large technology companies who have been blissfully complacent and complicit in facilitating access to the public for information operators at a fraction of what it would have cost them by other means.” The authors advocated for police, military, and intelligence involvement in censorship, across Five Eyes nations, and even suggested that Interpol should be involved. The report proposed a plan for AMITT and for security, intelligence, and law enforcement collaboration and argued for immediate implementation. “We do not need, nor can we afford, to wait 27 years for the AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques) framework to go into use.” The authors called for placing censorship efforts inside of “cybersecurity” even while acknowledging that “misinformation security” is utterly different from cybersecurity. They wrote that the third pillar of “The information environment” after physical and cybersecurity should be “The Cognitive Dimension.” The report flagged the need for a kind of pre-bunking to “preemptively inoculate a vulnerable population against messaging.” The report also pointed to the opportunity to use the DHS-funded Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) as the homes for orchestrating public-private censorship, and argued that these ISACs should be used to promote confidence in government. It is here that we see the idea for the EIP and VP: “While social media is not identified as a critical sector, and therefore doesn’t qualify for an ISAC, a misinformation ISAC could and should feed indications and warnings into ISACs.” Terp’s view of “disinformation” was overtly political. “Most misinformation is actually true,” noted Terp in the 2019 podcast, “but set in the wrong context.” Terp is an eloquent explainer of the strategy of using “anti-disinformation” efforts to conduct influence operations. “You're not trying to get people to believe lies most of the time. Most of the time, you're trying to change their belief sets. And in fact, really, uh, deeper than that, you're trying to change, to shift their internal narratives… the set of stories that are your baseline for your culture. So that might be the baseline for your culture as an American.” In the fall, Terp and others sought to promote their report. The podcast Terp did with Breuer in 2019 was one example of this effort. Together Terp and Breuer described the “public-private” model of censorship laundering that DHS, EIP, and VP would go on to embrace. Breuer spoke freely, openly stating that the information and narrative control he had in mind was comparable to that implemented by the Chinese government, only made more palatable for Americans. “If you talk to the average Chinese citizen, they absolutely believe that the Great Firewall of China is not there for censorship. They believe that it's there because the Chinese Communist Party wants to protect the citizenry and they absolutely believe that's a good thing. If the US government tried to sell that narrative, we would absolutely lose our minds and say, ‘No, no, this is a violation of our First Amendment rights. So the in-group and out-group messaging have to be often different.”
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
“Hogwarts School of Misinformation” “SJ called us the ‘Hogwarts school for misinformation and disinformation,’” said the whistleblower. “They were superheroes in their own story. And to that effect you could still find comic books on the CISA site.” CTIL, the whistleblower said, “needed programmers to pull apart information from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. For Twitter they created Python code to scrape.” The CTIL records provided by the whistleblower illustrate exactly how CTIL operated and tracked “incidents,” as well as what it considered to be “disinformation.” About the “we won’t stay home” narrative, CTIL members wrote, “Do we have enough to ask for the groups and/or accounts to be taken down or at a minimum reported and checked?” and “Can we get all troll on their bums if not?” They tracked posters calling for anti-lockdown protests as disinformation artifacts. “We should have seen this one coming,” they wrote about the protests. “Bottom line: can we stop the spread, do we have enough evidence to stop superspreaders, and are there other things we can do (are there countermessagers we can ping etc).” CTIL also worked to brainstorm counter-messaging for things like encouraging people to wear masks and discussed building an amplification network. “Repetition is truth,” said a CTIL member in one training. CTIL worked with other figures and groups in the Censorship Industrial Complex. Meeting notes indicate that Graphika’s team looked into adopting AMITT and that CTIL wanted to consult DiResta about getting platforms to remove content more quickly. When asked whether Terp or other CTIL leaders discussed their potential violation of the First Amendment, the whistleblower said, “They did not… The ethos was that if we get away with it, it’s legal, and there were no First Amendment concerns because we have a ‘public-private partnership’ — that’s the word they used to disguise those concerns. ‘Private people can do things public servants can’t do, and public servants can provide the leadership and coordination.’” Despite their confidence in the legality of their activities, some CTIL members may have taken extreme measures to keep their identities a secret. The group’s handbook recommends using burner phones, creating pseudonymous identities, and generating fake AI faces using the “This person does not exist” website. In June 2020, the whistleblower says, the secretive group took actions to conceal their activities even more. One month later, In July 2020, SIO’s Director, Alex Stamos emailed Kate Starbird from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, writing, “We are working on some election monitoring ideas with CISA and I would love your informal feedback before we go too far down this road . . . . [T]hings that should have been assembled a year ago are coming together quickly this week.” That summer CISA also created the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force which has measures that reflect CTIL/AMITT methods and includes a “real fake” graphic novel the whistleblower said was first pitched within CTIL. The “DISARM” framework, which AMITT inspired, has been formally adopted by the European Union and the United States as part of a “common standard for exchanging structured threat information on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.” Until now, the details of CTIL’s activities have received little attention even though the group received publicity in 2020. In September 2020, Wired published an article about CTIL that reads like a company press release. The article, like the Bloomberg and Washington Post stories that spring, accepts unquestioningly that the CTIL was truly a “volunteer” network of “former” intelligence officials from around the world. But unlike the Bloomberg and Washington Post stories, Wired also describes CTIL’s “anti-misinformation” work. The Wired reporter does not quote any critic of the CTIL activities, but suggests that some might see something wrong with them. “I ask him [CTIL co-founder Marc Rogers] about the notion of viewing misinformation as a cyber threat. “All of these bad actors are trying to do the same thing, Rogers says.” In other words, the connection between preventing cyber crimes, and “fighting misinformation,” are basically the same because they both involve fighting what the DHS and CTI League alike call “malicious actors,” which is synonymous with “bad guys.” “Like Terp, Rogers takes a holistic approach to cybersecurity,” the Wired article explains. “First there’s physical security, like stealing data from a computer onto a USB drive. Then there’s what we typically think of as cybersecurity—securing networks and devices from unwanted intrusions. And finally, you have what Rogers and Terp call cognitive security, which essentially is hacking people, using information, or more often, misinformation.” CTIL appears to have generated publicity about itself in the Spring and Fall of 2020 for the same reason EIP did: to claim later that its work was all out in the open and that anybody who suggested it was secretive was engaging in a conspiracy theory. “The Election Integrity Partnership has always operated openly and transparently,” EIP claimed in October 2022. “We published multiple public blog posts in the run-up to the 2020 election, hosted daily webinars immediately before and after the election, and published our results in a 290-page final report and multiple peer-reviewed academic journals. Any insinuation that information about our operations or findings were secret up to this point is disproven by the two years of free, public content we have created.” But as internal messages have revealed, much of what EIP did was secret, as well as partisan, and demanding of censorship by social media platforms, contrary to its claims to the contrary. EIP and VP, ostensibly, ended, but CTIL is apparently still active today. Several of its members list CTIL as an organization that is still active on their LinkedIn pages.
@AZ_DesertRose - Misty Summers
The gig is up AZ Chief Justice Brutinel. 🚨CISA Colluded to Censor Conservative Free Speech with the UK Government & CTIL & the AZ Supreme Court. @AZCourts @AZStateBar WATCH:⬇️Chief Justice Brutinel on the AZ Supreme Court Disinformation Task Force created in 2020. - via @BlehmLawAZ https://t.co/5PswsnqSsn 🚨In April 2020, Chris Krebs, then-Director of CISA, announced on Twitter & in multiple articles, that CISA was partnering with CTIL. 🚨This was a highly coordinated & sophisticated effort by the US & UK to build a DOMESTIC CENSORSHIP effort & influence operations similar to the ones they have used in foreign countries. 🚨It called for training influencers to spread messages to discredit individuals being targeted. 🚨And it calls for trying to get banks to cut off financial services to individuals who organize rallies or events. 🚨The timeline of CISA’s work with CTIL leading up to its work with EIP and VP strongly suggests that the model for public-private censorship operations may have originated from a framework originally created by MILITARY CONTRACTORS. 🚨What’s more, the techniques & materials outlined by CTIL closely resemble materials later created by CISA’s COUNTERING FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE Task Force & Mis-, Dis-, & Maliformation. READ:⬇️ team.https://t.co/wAA9oYHsM9 @elonmusk @mtaibbi @AzPinkLady @DecentFiJC @Jim_Jordan @SpeakerJohnson @DrJohnEastman @Rach_IC @KimWexlerMAJD @IvanRaiklin @barnes_law @realDonaldTrump @WendyRogersAZ @anthonykernAZ @Wadsack4Arizona @votewarren @AbrahamHamadeh @KariLake @PatrickByrne @Restoring_USA @TuckerCarlson @joerogan @glennbeck @MikeBenzCyber @prayingmedic @gatewaypundit @GeorgeNemeh @ConradsonJordan
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
“Volunteer” and “Former” Government Agents Bloomberg, Washington Post and others published credulous stories in the spring of 2020 claiming that the CTI League was simply a group of volunteer cybersecurity experts. Its founders were: a “former” Israeli intelligence official, Ohad Zaidenberg; a Microsoft “security manager,” Nate Warfield; and the head of sec ops for DEF CON, a hackers convention, Marc Rogers. The articles claimed that those highly skilled cybercrime professionals had decided to help billion-dollar hospitals, on their own time and without pay, for strictly altruistic motives. In just one month, from mid-March to mid-April, the supposedly all-volunteer CTIL had grown to “1,400 vetted members in 76 countries spanning 45 different sectors,” had “helped to lawfully take down 2,833 cybercriminal assets on the internet, including 17 designed to impersonate government organizations, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization,” and had “identified more than 2,000 vulnerabilities in healthcare institutions in more than 80 countries.” At every opportunity the men stressed that they were simply volunteers motivated by altruism. “I knew I had to do something to help,” said Zaidenberg. ”There is a really strong appetite for doing good in the community,” Rogers said during an Aspen Institute webinar. And yet a clear goal of CTIL’s leaders was to build support for censorship among national security and cybersecurity institutions. Toward that end, they sought to promote the idea of “cognitive security” as a rationale for government involvement in censorship activities. “Cognitive security is the thing you want to have,” said Terp on a 2019 podcast. “You want to protect that cognitive layer. It basically, it’s about pollution. Misinformation, disinformation, is a form of pollution across the Internet.” Terp and Pablo Breuer, another CTIL leader, like Zaidenberg, had backgrounds in the military and were former military contractors. Both have worked for SOFWERX, “a collaborative project of the U.S. Special Forces Command and Doolittle Institute.” The latter transfers Air Force technology, through the Air Force Resource Lab, to the private sector. According to Terp’s bio on the website of a consulting firm she created with Breuer, “She’s taught data science at Columbia University, was CTO of the UN’s big data team, designed machine learning algorithms and unmanned vehicle systems at the UK Ministry of Defence. Breuer is a former US Navy commander. According to his bio, he was “military director of US 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.” Breuer is listed as having been in the Navy during the creation of CTIL on his LinkedIn page. In June, 2018, Terp attended a ten-day military exercise organized by the US Special Operations Command, where she says she first met Breuer and discussed modern disinformation campaigns on social media. Wired summed up the conclusions they drew from their meeting: “Misinformation, they realized, could be treated the same way: as a cybersecurity problem.” And so they created CogSec with David Perlman and another colleague, Thaddeus Grugq, at the lead. In 2019, Terp co-chaired the Misinfosec Working Group within CogSec. Breuer admitted in a podcast that his aim was to bring military tactics to use on social media platforms in the U.S. “I wear two hats,” he explained. “The military director of the Donovan Group, and one of two innovation officers at Sofwerx, which is a completely unclassified 501c3 nonprofit that's funded by U. S. Special Operations Command.” Breuer went on to describe how they thought they were getting around the First Amendment. His work with Terp, he explained, was a way to get “nontraditional partners into one room,” including “maybe somebody from one of the social media companies, maybe a few special forces operators, and some folks from Department of Homeland Security… to talk in a non-attribution, open environment in an unclassified way so that we can collaborate better, more freely and really start to change the way that we address some of these issues.” The Misinfosec report advocated for sweeping government censorship and counter-misinformation. During the first six months of 2019, the authors say, they analyzed “incidents,” developed a reporting system, and shared their censorship vision with “numerous state, treaty and NGOs.” In every incident mentioned, the victims of misinformation were on the political Left, and they included Barack Obama, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and Emmanuel Macron. The report was open about the fact that its motivation for counter-misinformation were the twin political earthquakes of 2016: Brexit and the election of Trump. “A study of the antecedents to these events lead us to the realization that there’s something off kilter with our information landscape,” wrote Terp and her co-authors. “The usual useful idiots and fifth columnists—now augmented by automated bots, cyborgs and human trolls—are busily engineering public opinion, stoking up outrage, sowing doubt and chipping away at trust in our institutions. And now it’s our brains that are being hacked.” The Misinfosec report focused on information that “changes beliefs” through “narratives,” and recommended a way to counter misinformation by attacking specific links in a “kill chain” or influence chain from the misinfo “incident” before it becomes a full-blown narrative. The report laments that governments and corporate media no longer have full control of information. “For a long time, the ability to reach mass audiences belonged to the nation-state (e.g. in the USA via broadcast licensing through ABC, CBS and NBC). Now, however, control of informational instruments has been allowed to devolve to large technology companies who have been blissfully complacent and complicit in facilitating access to the public for information operators at a fraction of what it would have cost them by other means.” The authors advocated for police, military, and intelligence involvement in censorship, across Five Eyes nations, and even suggested that Interpol should be involved. The report proposed a plan for AMITT and for security, intelligence, and law enforcement collaboration and argued for immediate implementation. “We do not need, nor can we afford, to wait 27 years for the AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques) framework to go into use.” The authors called for placing censorship efforts inside of “cybersecurity” even while acknowledging that “misinformation security” is utterly different from cybersecurity. They wrote that the third pillar of “The information environment” after physical and cybersecurity should be “The Cognitive Dimension.” The report flagged the need for a kind of pre-bunking to “preemptively inoculate a vulnerable population against messaging.” The report also pointed to the opportunity to use the DHS-funded Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) as the homes for orchestrating public-private censorship, and argued that these ISACs should be used to promote confidence in government. It is here that we see the idea for the EIP and VP: “While social media is not identified as a critical sector, and therefore doesn’t qualify for an ISAC, a misinformation ISAC could and should feed indications and warnings into ISACs.” Terp’s view of “disinformation” was overtly political. “Most misinformation is actually true,” noted Terp in the 2019 podcast, “but set in the wrong context.” Terp is an eloquent explainer of the strategy of using “anti-disinformation” efforts to conduct influence operations. “You're not trying to get people to believe lies most of the time. Most of the time, you're trying to change their belief sets. And in fact, really, uh, deeper than that, you're trying to change, to shift their internal narratives… the set of stories that are your baseline for your culture. So that might be the baseline for your culture as an American.” In the fall, Terp and others sought to promote their report. The podcast Terp did with Breuer in 2019 was one example of this effort. Together Terp and Breuer described the “public-private” model of censorship laundering that DHS, EIP, and VP would go on to embrace. Breuer spoke freely, openly stating that the information and narrative control he had in mind was comparable to that implemented by the Chinese government, only made more palatable for Americans. “If you talk to the average Chinese citizen, they absolutely believe that the Great Firewall of China is not there for censorship. They believe that it's there because the Chinese Communist Party wants to protect the citizenry and they absolutely believe that's a good thing. If the US government tried to sell that narrative, we would absolutely lose our minds and say, ‘No, no, this is a violation of our First Amendment rights. So the in-group and out-group messaging have to be often different.”
@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty, Censored By X🦁🤐
🚨🚨🚨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 👇🏻
@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty, Censored By X🦁🤐
🔥🔥Breaking! Bad Kitteh busts Newsguard and its shady GOOGLE links in multiple ways! In fact, their censorship methodology was acquired from a Google, Omidyar and Soros etc funded partner! A little history first: Recall Google seed funded a humongous censorship apparatus called First Draft News, created on June 18, 2015, and 2 days after Trump announced running. Google also visited the Obama Whitehouse 427 times and Googles Eric Schmidt with an est $1.5 billion budget, ran Hillary’s 2016 campaign with artificial intelligence to sway the media and voters. Newsguard the beginning and GOOGLE PART 1: Nov 3rd and 4th 2017 Gordon Crovitz, the founder of Newsguard attended Newsgeist at Arizona State University (ASU). This is a very rare find. Newsgeist is hosted by Google (both Europe and US programs) and The Knight Foundation (US program only). Born at Newsgeist was Misinfocon. Connected to my major pinned expose’, and more to come later. Jennifer 8 Lee, co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Sport and also co-founded what is now the Newsgeist conference. She also co-founded the Misinfocon conferences and the Credibility Coalition (more later). Also in attendance with Gordon Crovitz, at the Google and Knight Foundation Newsgeist was the other Newsgeist cofounder, Wired’s, Karen Wickre, who was a past editorial board member at Twitter and currently serves on the boards of The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford and the News Literacy Project. At Newsgeist with Gordon Crovitz, was also Craigslist's Craig Newmark, a funder of some of the trust projects. Claire Wardle of First Draft News was also there. And was also a host at the first ever Misinfocon. It just so happens, that along with the WEF partnered Publicis, the hard left, Knight Foundation seed funded Newsguard too. Newsguard and GOOGLE part 2, the Trust Project: “Nuzzel is joining the Trust Project and the Credibility Coalition, and collaborating with other partners such as NewsGuard and http://Deepnews.ai on NuzzelRank.” Never mind that Nuzzel was a Newsguard investment, and the Credibility Coalition is involved in my major pinned exposé. But the Trust Project that partnered with NewsGuard BEFORE they even went live, was funded by: ♦️Craig Newmark Philanthropies ♦️Google ♦️John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ♦️Democracy Fund ♦️Markkula Foundation. Recall that the Omidyar Democracy Fund is a Soros Democracy Alliance partner. And its money is funneled thru Arabella Sixteen Thirty Fund. But it gets better. “Adding to Trust Project’s momentum are new uses of the Trust Indicators by partners in the technology sector. Google, Bing, Facebook, Nuzzel, PEN America and NewsGuard are using them to surface, display or better label journalism on their platforms.” The Trust Indicators from the Trust Project are what Newsguard uses to judge new sites. “NewsGuard: The news literacy company uses the Trust Indicators as a source for rating the transparency and accountability of participating news and information sites.” Boom.. Big bada boom…. Sources to follow. How’s this sweeties? 😁
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Last week, an expert told Congress we had spread "conspiracy theories" about censorship, but we hadn't. And now, yet another whistleblower has come forward with new files showing direct US Defense Department involvement in a mass censorship scheme. They're explosive. https://t.co/T1iIsKyLnJ
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Pentagon Was Involved In Domestic Censorship Scheme, New CTIL Whistleblower Files Show Slack messages show direct involvement of FBI, DOD, and DHS employees in a mass online censorship scheme deliberately misrepresented as “cybersecurity” by @galexybrane U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifes before the Senate on October 31, 2023 (Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty Images) Last week, Public and Racket published the first CTIL Files, which revealed the origins of the Censorship Industrial Complex in offensive tactics developed by US and UK military contractors. Now, a second whistleblower has come forward with Slack messages showing far greater government and military involvement in the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL) than we had previously discovered. The CTIL Slack “disinformation” channel and the “law enforcement escalation” channel included current and former FBI employees, as well as personnel from the Michigan Cyber Command Center, the US Defense Digital Service (DDS), and at least one European government. DDS is headquartered in the Pentagon and was founded by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in November 2015. DDS’s website states, “The Department of Defense has a secret weapon.” The Department of Defense told Public that it combined DDS with other agencies. “DDS merged with three other organizations to form the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) back in Feb 2022. CDAO is not currently involved with CTI and we do not have situational awareness on project participation which predated that merger,” a spokesperson said. As for the CTI League, it claimed to serve an essential function, cybersecurity, protecting hospitals and healthcare systems from serious threats. However, according to the new whistleblower, “The essential function of CTI League was largely duplicative of other free and paid threat services available to health care defenders.” Justin Frappier, who worked for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), wrote on his profile, “The opinions expressed here are my own as an analyst, and not those of CISA, or the US Government unless otherwise stated.” But Frappier put the CISA seal as his profile image and was an eager participant in the CTI League. When he first joined CTIL, he asked if the group was “consolidating a list of disinformation resources to validate.” A CTIL member replied, “Yes, we are working on that. There is a whole Disinfo gathering [and] analysis operation happening in another group connected to CTI-League, which we’re working to incorporate as a threat stream.” Responded Frappier, “That’s awesome, I think it’s amazing to see this happening at scale, long overdue but massive effort.” Note: we redacted the files to protect identities of individuals who did not appear to play a leadership role. These messages suggest that a government employee explicitly sought out a way to use the group for anti-disinformation activities and initiated access to these activities. Frappier contributed 573 messages to the “disinformation” channel of the Slack group.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
CTIL’s disinformation team referred to using the “law enforcement escalation” channel. This channel had an FBI Cyber Crime employee and Montana’s Chief Information Security Officer (who now works as a Director at the Center for Internet Security, a CISA-funded non-profit that manages information sharing for DHS). It is unclear how often CTIL’s disinformation league sent escalations to this channel. One member of the disinformation team, Andras Iklody, worked for a Luxembourg government computer security initiative at the time of CTIL’s activities, according to his LinkedIn. Iklody previously worked for NATO. Iklody appears to have set up a disinformation channel for CTIL in the Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP) that he helped develop. MISP is funded and sponsored by the European Union, and the Covid disinformation channel CTIL used was vetted by MISP. According to Sara-Jayne Terp, a leader of CTIL’s disinformation team, the Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques (AMITT) framework was added to MISP. The group, Terp said, was also inputting the Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Lab’s disinformation taxonomy. When Terp explained that the group would be using MISP, Frappier responded, “I can’t tell you how exited [sic] I am that we got this up and running. I am really looking forward to what this is going to be. I think it has been long over due, and many as you said are working on similar issues, however tying it into MISP is INGENIOUS. I can’t believe I never thought of it before, and have been working with MISP for like 5 years.” The new whistleblower’s files provide insight into the group’s inner workings, which Terp described as a “parallel effort.” Neither we nor the whistleblower know what the “parallel effort” refers to.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
In these new files, Eric Brogdon, a cybersecurity director for a private firm, and others appear to have attempted to interfere with physical gatherings, with Brogdon implying that he had the ability to get social media users suspended. When one member shared news about a call for anti-lockdown protests, Brogdon responded, “Let me see if I can get the Facebook user suspended.” When asked about the incident, Brogdon sent to Public an XKCD comic strip, which argues that the First Amendment does not prevent private Internet companies from censoring speech. But if Facebook took action on this post, it could have been a direct violation of the user’s free speech rights, and perhaps even right to assembly, given the involvement of government officials in CTIL. Other files previously obtained by Public showed that Tom Sear of the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Joint Special Operations University was also a member of the disinformation team.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
No other leading participants in the CTIL responded to our requests for comment. Once again, we are confronted with the question: what was really going on with CTIL? Why were individuals associated with foreign governments, Special Operations, NATO, and DOD all participating in an operation to censor and influence US citizens? Please subscribe now to support our award-winning investigative reporting and to find out! https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1732875089606283728?s=20
@freddiesayers - Freddie Sayers
Here is the full length video report into the mysterious 'Global Disinformation Index' and how it censors political speech across Europe and the US. Please share widely, more people need to know. https://t.co/vz2cz36q2v
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❗️❗️Breaking! Google just didn’t seed fund First Draft News, the first major US and global censorship org, it CREATED IT! I also have finally gotten the names of the Google employees they used to start the global censorship in 2015. This was in preparation for the 2016 elections. Yup, the same Google that visited the Obama White House 427 times. And the same Google that helped Obama win both his first and second presidencies! Interestingly, Tim Walz went on to hire one of the two Google individuals, Steve Grove. All along I thought the First Draft News consortium was started on June 18, 2015, when it was announced by Olivia Ma. But actually contact was made in April 2015. I’ve been looking for more specifics on First Drafts origins for years, now I have TWO SOURCES. Also Google expanded its support to include its GLOBAL TEAM. 1. First Draft website: “Most importantly, a final huge thank you to Steve Grove and Olivia Ma at Google News Lab. They got us all in a room in New York in April 2015 and FLOATED THE IDEA of First Draft. Since then, their support and enthusiasm, now combined with the same from their global team, has been invaluable. 2. Google News Lab on Medium - Steve Grove Director of the News Lab at Google. “At the center of our efforts around this topic is the First Draft coalition, WHICH WE STARTED in 2015 with seven social media verification organizations to create standards and best practices in the news industry for verifying eyewitness media content and COMBATTING FAKE NEWS. In 2016, we expanded the coalition to over 80 partners worldwide, and were thrilled to welcome Facebook and Twitter as well.” Claire Wardle, the director of First Draft, on March 31, 2015, and weeks prior to Googles offer, became the Tow Centers Research Director. She worked with Tow/Knight previously. Google is partnered with the Knight Foundation. And, it just so happens that Steve Grove and Olivia Ma who started First Draft were frequent visitors to the Obama White House over many years! I even have Steve Grove down for a strategy meeting with Obama less than 3 months before the April 2015 First Draft Consortium inception. ♦️Video #1 - Shows that Steve Grove, the director of Google News Lab, first met Obama at Google while Obama was still a senator. This also shows the multiple projects from multiple time frames that Steve Grove worked with Obama from 2009 to 2016. He’s all over this video. This also shows that Steve Grove worked with Obama during the same time that he and Olivia Ma created the First Draft News global censorship org. ♦️Video # 2 - Shows that Olivia Ma accompanied Steve Grove to the White House on at least one occasion in 2010. These videos may seem boring to you, but to me they are documentation of evidence. Sources to follow.
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Google started what I consider the first major censorship in America, and globally, so this can’t be taken lightly. The Biden admin has expanded things globally, during the same time that First Draft was shuttered. But First Drafts framework and training, still used today, was already built. Here’s the evidence that proves that Google was responsible. 1. First Draft News Website: “Most importantly, a final huge thank you to Steve Grove and Olivia Ma at Google News Lab. They got us all in a room in New York in April 2015 and floated the idea of First Draft. Since then, their support and enthusiasm, now combined with the same from their global team, has been invaluable.” https://archive.is/n3pXV 2. Steve Grove - Google News Lab Director on their Medium page: “At the center of our efforts around this topic is the First Draft coalition, which we started in 2015 with seven social media verification organizations to create standards and best practices in the news industry for verifying eyewitness media content and combating fake news. In 2016, we expanded the coalition to over 80 partners worldwide, and were thrilled to welcome Facebook and Twitter as well. Any news organization can sign up, and in 2017, we’ll be working with the coalition to engage in more projects like Electionland, our polling place verification initiative.” https://archive.is/XNWj9
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Now there are multiple formal announcement of the creation of the First Draft Coalition, but why not share one made by Googles Olivia Ma, one of the actual creators herself? I’ll also show that Olivia got a promotion to the Google News Lab to join, Steve Grove. Where she grew the First Draft Coalition to become the massively expanded, and now globalized, First Draft News. 1. Olivia Ma, the director of the Google News Initiative, and the creator of the First Draft Coalition: “We’re bringing together a group of thought leaders and pioneers in social media journalism to create educational resources on how to verify eyewitness media, and how to consider the ethics of using it in news reporting. This new group, called The First Draft Coalition, will consist of experts from Eyewitness Media Hub, Storyful, Bellingcat, First Look Media's http://Reported.ly, Meedan, Emergent, SAM Desk, and Verification Junkie. The Coalition will develop and program a new site for verification and ethics training, tools, research, and, most importantly, case studies around the biggest news stories of the moment.” https://archive.is/l8y7Q 2. Olivia Ma, Head of Partnerships, the Google News Lab. “Today, just over a year after its creation, we’re excited to announce the expansion of the First Draft Coalition, with the launch of a new partner network, including major news and technology organizations. We’re proud to welcome Facebook and Twitter into the network, as well as newsrooms around the world, including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, CNN, ABC News (Australia), AJ+, ProPublica, Agence France-Presse, Channel 4 News, The Telegraph, France Info, Breaking News, Les Décodeurs, International Business Times UK, Eurovision News Exchange, SAM, Aljazeera Media Network, Reveal project, InVID project, Euronews, Sourcefabric, WITNESS, Amnesty International, European Journalism Centre, American Press Institute, International Fact Checking Network, Duke Reporters’ Lab.” https://archive.is/xMgYS
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Now Kamala’s running mate, and censorship King, Tim Walz, hired Google News Labs, Steve Grove. Recall Steve was involved in the creation of Googles first major US and Global censorship org. And of course Steve Grove worked with Obama for many many years too. “Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz appoints seven commissioners; Google News Lab director (Steve Grove) will run DEED” “Steve Grove will go to the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Grove is currently director of Google News Lab and the founder of Silicon North Stars.” https://archive.is/SRX9C
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This article is about Googles 427 White House visits. And this doesn’t even include things like Google’s, “moon shot” program, who have also been to the White House. Moonshot labeled conservatives as extremists. “A detailed examination of White House visitor logs reveals the extraordinary access to the Obama White House enjoyed by Google, its top executives and employees. Since President Obama took office in January 2009 through October 31, 2015, employees of Google and associated entities visited the White House 427 times. That includes: •• 363 meetings between White House officials and Google employees.ii •• 64 meetings involving employees of companies solely owned by Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. •• The meetings were attended by at least 169 Google executives, from the company’s senior ranks down to software engineers, and 182 White House officials. Overall, Google executives have had extraordinary access to the White House meetings at which policies are set. Google executives met over 100 times with the White House offices that set and execute White House policy, including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), National Economic Council (NEC), Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), National Security Council (NSC) and others. It’s a great read! Make certain to click, “read more”. You can’t access that part with the archive so I’m including the real sites link too. Link A https://old.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-white-house-meetings Link B https://archive.is/UExmP
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This is what I listed as Video #2 in my top post. Both Steve Grove and Olivia Ma are in this. It’s from Feb 1, 2009. Presidential YouTube Interview - behind the scenes Here are a few clips from our preparation for the YouTube interview we did with President Obama on Monday, February 1st, 2009. We started our preparation in Davos during the World Economic Forum, where we were working on the Davos Debates. When we heard the President had accepted the request for the interview, we had to get started right away and then fly back to DC for the taping. Here's the interview itself:  • The YouTube Interview We weren't allowed to film any behind the scenes footage from inside the White House, but you'll see here some footage of our practice and prep. The quip about the brown socks at the end is referencing the fact that Steve neglected to color code properly, and then exposed his brown sox during the interview, which drew some comments from viewers on YouTube. Featured here are Steve Grove, Olivia Ma, Ramya Raghavan, and Aaron Zamost from YouTube, and Ginny Hunt who leads the Google Moderator team. https://youtu.be/4JJYHufF8PA
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This is an extra Steve Grove video from 2011 that I’m adding because it shows who Obamas videographer was. Arun Chaudhary was the first official White House videographer (Obamas) and was the creative director at Loren Merchans, Revolution Messaging. Yeah the daughter of Trumps judge. Revolution messaging ran Obamas presidential campaign. And was before Authentic Campaigns. I owe you more some day on Arun. “Some behind the scenes footage from the White House before and after the YouTube Interview with President Obama. Thanks to Arun Chaudhary for the footage inside the Diplomatic Room of the White House, where the interview was held.” https://youtu.be/z2-17cfa3mQ
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This is what I labeled video #1 in my top post. It shows Google News Lab director, Steve Groves, working with Obama from 2009 to 2016. This also means that while Steve was censorship happy for Google and First Draft News, he was working with Obama at the White House. Boohyeah 🤘🏻 Dec 21, 2016 “Over the last eight years, Google and YouTube have partnered with the White House to host a unique set of interviews that have empowered ordinary Americans and YouTube creators with direct access to the president of the United States. This piece takes a look back at that series of interviews, its evolution over the course of the Obama presidency, and its role in democratizing political discourse and expanding access to presidential power.” https://youtu.be/CIxSXBuDePM
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The Sutori Government Transparency Project White House Google + Government meeting log This timeline compares Google's White House Meetings and other notable occurrences with related federal government actions. (These are not the normal White House logs.) January 21, 2015: Steve Grove, Director of Google's News Lab, meets with Jenna Brayton, Associate Director of Content at the Office of Digital Strategy at the White House. January 23, 2015: Steve Grove and Johanna Shelton, of Google, meet with Dan Pfieiffer, White House Senior Advisor for Strategy and Communications. January 31, 2010: Macon Phillips (White House director of new media) meets with Steve Grove(YouTube head of news & politics), Olivia Ma (YouTube news manager), Aaron Zamost (YouTube manager of public affairs), Ginny Hunt (Google principal strategy & civic innovation), and Norm Magnuson Michael Mathis (Google video production managers). https://archive.is/BPrL0
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There’s a lot more to this Obama and Google love story than what’s in this thread SO FAR. I’m. Not. Done. Stay tuned
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🔥🔥🔥Breaking! Florida based, official international fact checking org, is funded by the US State Dept! And it operates in the United States too! This is a massive scandal! The State Department, who legally can’t operate in the US, has been funding US fact checking since 2015! Yes, it’s earliest days! The news orgs that operate under the IFCN flag, such as the Washington Post, do the leg work. Which then results in posts on Facebook etc being labeled and the algorithms throttling the post. This official international fact checking org is also partnered with Google. Poynters IFCN was funded by the CIA linked, State Dept NED and Omidyar grants. Recall Google initiated the first ever US censorship and expanded it globally by using the First Draft Consortium. First Draft also worked hand in hand with the IFCN. Poynters Politifact was in the First Draft network. ♦️Now check out this timeline of events. April 2015 - First Draft Consortium started by Google June 2015 - Official First Draft Announcement comes out. Along with its Google News Lab partnership announcement (obviously) Aug 2015 - Google News Lab partners with Poynter Sept 2015 - IFCN is launched by Poynter Oct 2015 - Poynter launches IFCN with State Dept NED funding Oct 2017 - Google news lab partners with IFCN specifically Dec 2018 - Poynter acquires Politifact ♦️Next I’ll list some key quotes from IFCN’s beginnings: Oct 21, 2015 - “Today marks the online launch of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter. This informal network, a forum for fact-checkers from five continents, is born out of the desire to study and discuss fact-checking as a journalistic instrument worldwide. The IFCN is supported by grants from the Omidyar Network and the National Endowment for Democracy.” “Poynter's partnership with Google is the institute's first major alliance with a digital technology company.” ♦️ Now showing US links is easy. “Led by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, FactChat is the first collaborative project to unite U.S. fact-checking organizations with two major Spanish-language news broadcasters to fight mis/disinformation during the 2020 presidential campaign.” “Facebook users in the US and Germany can now flag articles they think are deliberately false, these will then go to third-party fact checkers signed up with the IFCN. Those fact checkers come from media organisations like the Washington Post and websites such as the urban legend debunking site Snopes. Another warning appears if users try to share the story, although Facebook doesn't prevent such sharing or delete the fake news story. The "fake" tag will however negatively impact the story's score in Facebook's algorithm, meaning that fewer people will see it pop up in their news feeds.” “Alexios Mantzarlis at first led the IFCN: Then he moved to GOOGLE NEWS LAB. And is now Principal, Google Trust & Safety Intelligence. As Director of the IFCN, he helped draft the fact-checkers' code of principles and shepherded a seminal partnership between fact-checkers and Facebook.” ♦️Now let’s head into Brazil: - Cristina Tardáguila, NED FELLOW, Founder of Agência Lupa and was at Brazil misinfocon with Zommer. Both were GDI advisors. Cristina Tardáguila is the IFCN Associate Director. - Laura Zommer is Zommer isn the board of the IFCN and Género & Numero from Brazil. She’s also the Executive and Editor-in-Chief at Chequeado, the first initiative of fact-checking and verification of public discourse in Latin America. Knight Fellow Laura Zommer started Factchequeado, a journalism and education hub to stem disinfo flows in Spanish-language platforms in the US. Factchequeado will use innovative approaches developed by Chequeado and Maldita in Latin America and Spain – introducing a WhatsApp tipline to involve audiences in fact-checking. Factchequeado is a collaborative alliance with Latino media and fact-checking orgs. Sources plus more to follow.
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Let’s begin with the International Fact Checking Network’s (IFCN) first days. ♦️Oct 2015 the IFCN was launched by Poynter with support from grants by the Omidyar Network and the National Endowment for Democracy. https://archive.is/RpKYc ♦️This is a September 2020 report, and funding still was from the State Dept NED and Omidyar but now included Soros funding etc. Broadband Commission research report on ‘Freedom of Expression and Addressing Disinformation on the Internet’ The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN, 2019a) was launched in September 2015 as a business unit within the non-profit journalism school Poynter Institute for Media Studies, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.. The Institute, which owns the Tampa Bay Times, launched IFCN to bring together fact-checkers worldwide and to promote good practices and knowledge exchange in the field. The IFCN’s mission is to monitor trends, formats and policy-making about fact-checking worldwide, to publish regular articles about fact-checking, to promote training - both in person and online - as well as ensuring basic standards through the fact-checkers’ code of principles. On August 6th, 2020, IFCN had 79 verified active signatories of its code of principles, 14 verified signatories under renewal (IFCN, 2020d) IFCN has received funding from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, the Duke Reporters’ Lab, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations and the Park Foundation (IFCN, 2019d). https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.broadbandcommission.org/download/2809/
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Please excuse both the Sept and Oct 2015 dates, in the top post, for the inception of the IFCN. The likely explanation is that most things are planned before they are announced. Now back to sourcing the timeline. This here 🧵 discusses Google starting the First Draft Coalition in April 2015. With the June 18, 2015 formal announcement. And only 2 days after Trump announced running.
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Since we are on the subject of the CIA linked, and State Dept funded NED, First Draft Consortium founding orgs included the NED funded Bellingcat. Another founding org included Storyful Intelligence whose Global Managing Director was the founder of the UK 77th psyop brigade. First draft worked massively with the IFCN and Poynters Politifact. Now back to the IFCN sources.
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🔥And this is what you call bringing the baby home. Massive document found right here with Google admitting everything! Google is synonymous with disinfo work! Google News Lab created the First Draft Coalition in April 2015. Then announced it formally in June 2015. In August 2015, Google News Lab partnered with Poynter who then on Sept/Oct 2015 created the IFCN. Conveniently, First Draft News worked heavily with the IFCN. Google later partnered with the IFCN itself. ♦️Here’s an article on Google partnering with Poynter in August 2015. And before IFCN was created. Dates are important! https://archive.is/W2XKf ♦️Now here’s the big document, Google admitting everything! “Addressing disinfo is not something we can do on our own. The Google News Initiative also houses our products, partnerships, and programs dedicated to supporting news organizations in their efforts create quality reporting that displaces disinformation. This includes: 🔹Helping launch the First Draft Coalition (https://firstdraftnews.org/), a nonprofit that convenes news orgs and technology companies to tackle the challenges around combating disinformation online – especially in the run-up to elections. 🔹Participating in and providing financial support to the Trust Project (http://thetrustproject.org/), of which Google is a founding member and which explores how journalism can signal its trustworthiness online. The Trust Project has developed eight indicators of trust that publishers can use to better convey why their content should be seen as credible, with promising results for the publishers who have trialed them. 🔹 Partnering with Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a nonpartisan organization gathering fact-checking organizations from the United States, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, India, and more. In addition, we support the work of researchers who explore the issues of disinformation and trust in journalism by funding research at organizations like First Draft, the Oxford University’s Reuters News Institute, Michigan University’s Quello Center for Telecommunication Management law, and more. https://web.archive.org/web/20190915004409/https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/14a-8/2019/arjunanyscrfl041919-14a8.pdf
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The Google Trust project mentioned above is what created the Trust Indicators used by Newsguard. And they partnered with Newsguard before it even went live. This was slightly off topic, but you all need to understand how central Google was with everything. Also the Disarm framework used by our DHS CISA and ran by rabid anti conservatives globally, was started by none other than Googles Newsgeist. (Long story, it’s a mess.) Now back to the ICFN.
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🔥🔥Breaking! Bad Kitteh busts Newsguard and its shady GOOGLE links in multiple ways! In fact, their censorship methodology was acquired from a Google, Omidyar and Soros etc funded partner! A little history first: Recall Google seed funded a humongous censorship apparatus called First Draft News, created on June 18, 2015, and 2 days after Trump announced running. Google also visited the Obama Whitehouse 427 times and Googles Eric Schmidt with an est $1.5 billion budget, ran Hillary’s 2016 campaign with artificial intelligence to sway the media and voters. Newsguard the beginning and GOOGLE PART 1: Nov 3rd and 4th 2017 Gordon Crovitz, the founder of Newsguard attended Newsgeist at Arizona State University (ASU). This is a very rare find. Newsgeist is hosted by Google (both Europe and US programs) and The Knight Foundation (US program only). Born at Newsgeist was Misinfocon. Connected to my major pinned expose’, and more to come later. Jennifer 8 Lee, co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Sport and also co-founded what is now the Newsgeist conference. She also co-founded the Misinfocon conferences and the Credibility Coalition (more later). Also in attendance with Gordon Crovitz, at the Google and Knight Foundation Newsgeist was the other Newsgeist cofounder, Wired’s, Karen Wickre, who was a past editorial board member at Twitter and currently serves on the boards of The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford and the News Literacy Project. At Newsgeist with Gordon Crovitz, was also Craigslist's Craig Newmark, a funder of some of the trust projects. Claire Wardle of First Draft News was also there. And was also a host at the first ever Misinfocon. It just so happens, that along with the WEF partnered Publicis, the hard left, Knight Foundation seed funded Newsguard too. Newsguard and GOOGLE part 2, the Trust Project: “Nuzzel is joining the Trust Project and the Credibility Coalition, and collaborating with other partners such as NewsGuard and http://Deepnews.ai on NuzzelRank.” Never mind that Nuzzel was a Newsguard investment, and the Credibility Coalition is involved in my major pinned exposé. But the Trust Project that partnered with NewsGuard BEFORE they even went live, was funded by: ♦️Craig Newmark Philanthropies ♦️Google ♦️John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ♦️Democracy Fund ♦️Markkula Foundation. Recall that the Omidyar Democracy Fund is a Soros Democracy Alliance partner. And its money is funneled thru Arabella Sixteen Thirty Fund. But it gets better. “Adding to Trust Project’s momentum are new uses of the Trust Indicators by partners in the technology sector. Google, Bing, Facebook, Nuzzel, PEN America and NewsGuard are using them to surface, display or better label journalism on their platforms.” The Trust Indicators from the Trust Project are what Newsguard uses to judge new sites. “NewsGuard: The news literacy company uses the Trust Indicators as a source for rating the transparency and accountability of participating news and information sites.” Boom.. Big bada boom…. Sources to follow. How’s this sweeties? 😁
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🔹February 12, 2018 Poynter Expands Fact-Checking Franchise by Acquiring PolitiFact. “Though Poynter owns the Tampa Bay Times newspaper — which created the PolitiFact initiative in 2007 –the formal acquisition and relocation allows Poynter to expand its fact-check training and leadership in best practices, and to be engaged in the real time journalism that it teaches. Poynter and PolitiFact have a history of collaboration and have worked together to secure grant funding.” https://archive.is/Y9fnb 🔹Second photo - PolitiFact was also in the First Draft News Network. That photo was a listing of all of its members. (Lupa, another member, is partnered with Brazil’s TSE aka Alexandre de Moraes.)
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The State Dept NED funded IFCN was involved in US elections. And I’m telling you, they were involved massively in Fact Checking globally starting in 2015. There’s lots of evidence to be had. That WhatsApp stuff mentioned here involved Brazil and its TSE court with Alexandre de Moraes etc too. “Led by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, FactChat is the first collaborative project to unite U.S. fact-checking organizations with two major Spanish-language news broadcasters to fight mis/disinformation during the 2020 presidential campaign. FactChat brings together U.S.-based journalists and fact-checkers in a bilingual alliance to give voters the information they need to make their decisions based on facts. From Sept. 15, 2020 until the Inauguration Day in 2021, fact-checkers from AFP, Check Your Fact, http://FactCheck.org, Lead Stories, MediaWise, PolitiFact, The Dispatch, The Washington Post Fact Checker, Science Feedback and USA Today will share their content with Telemundo and Univision. Both networks will translate the fact-checks to Spanish before republishing the content on their respective websites. With support from WhatsApp, the IFCN will upload both versions into the FactChat chatbot. The system, developed by http://Turn.io, is free for all WhatsApp users and features an easy-to-use interface available in both languages.” https://archive.is/DfTd4
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🔥This is even bigger yet. I forgot that in 2016 with the help of Google, Poynter and IFCN actually PARTNERED with First Draft News! You see they started as a smaller First Draft Coalition and in 2016 they were expanded to be called First Draft News. If you look in this photo you will see Poynter IFCN as being a new partner. Later, this partnership grew even larger. Linkie https://archive.is/bzWzR The linked post shows how Googles Olivia Ma and Steve Grove were responsible for the creation of the First Draft Coalition. And then later Googles Olivia Ma expanded it to include Poynter IFCN plus more. There’s pertinent info above that post too.
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Now there are multiple formal announcement of the creation of the First Draft Coalition, but why not share one made by Googles Olivia Ma, one of the actual creators herself? I’ll also show that Olivia got a promotion to the Google News Lab to join, Steve Grove. Where she grew the First Draft Coalition to become the massively expanded, and now globalized, First Draft News. 1. Olivia Ma, the director of the Google News Initiative, and the creator of the First Draft Coalition: “We’re bringing together a group of thought leaders and pioneers in social media journalism to create educational resources on how to verify eyewitness media, and how to consider the ethics of using it in news reporting. This new group, called The First Draft Coalition, will consist of experts from Eyewitness Media Hub, Storyful, Bellingcat, First Look Media's http://Reported.ly, Meedan, Emergent, SAM Desk, and Verification Junkie. The Coalition will develop and program a new site for verification and ethics training, tools, research, and, most importantly, case studies around the biggest news stories of the moment.” https://archive.is/l8y7Q 2. Olivia Ma, Head of Partnerships, the Google News Lab. “Today, just over a year after its creation, we’re excited to announce the expansion of the First Draft Coalition, with the launch of a new partner network, including major news and technology organizations. We’re proud to welcome Facebook and Twitter into the network, as well as newsrooms around the world, including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, CNN, ABC News (Australia), AJ+, ProPublica, Agence France-Presse, Channel 4 News, The Telegraph, France Info, Breaking News, Les Décodeurs, International Business Times UK, Eurovision News Exchange, SAM, Aljazeera Media Network, Reveal project, InVID project, Euronews, Sourcefabric, WITNESS, Amnesty International, European Journalism Centre, American Press Institute, International Fact Checking Network, Duke Reporters’ Lab.” https://archive.is/xMgYS
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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD:
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/2 As a part of the NSC’s regular interagency meetings on censoring COVID-related speech in the United States, the White House hosted the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) from the U.K. government in 2021 to learn about their most effective censorship techniques.
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/3 This meeting was attended by high-level staff from: 🚨White House 🚨NSC 🚨CIA 🚨FBI 🚨State Department 🚨Treasury 🚨Department of Defense 🚨Homeland Security 🚨Health and Human Services 🚨USAID 🚨Global Media 🚨Office of the Director of National Intelligence as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
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/4 At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public, and these documents expose how left-wing authoritarian governments across the globe are working together to attack free speech.
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/5 During the censorship meeting, the Biden-Harris NSC invited the British government to share its censorship playbook. They recommended: 🚨Creating a dedicated hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts 🚨Passing legislation to enable the government to coerce social media companies 🚨Enlisting the Department of State to partner with foreign allies and multilateral institutions to coordinate the global censorship agenda Keep reading…
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/6🚨A centralized hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts: The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) is a British “cross-departmental” body that coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. They “support formulation of a coordinated Government response” to the “threat” of misinformation (anything the government deems false).
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/7 The CDU coordinates the British censorship program with private companies such as social media platforms and non-profits. The CDU includes components of the U.K.’s foreign policy apparatus, domestic and foreign intelligence services, and individuals working directly for the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office’s National Security Unit.
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/8 Our separate litigation previously uncovered that the Biden-Harris Admin convened similar public-private censorship partnerships in the U.S. well into 2024.
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/9 Around election time, the CDU stood up a “Central Election Cell” to kick censorship efforts into overdrive.
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/10 During the U.S. 2022 Midterm elections, the Biden-Harris Administration similarly set up a National Election Command Post within the FBI.
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/1🚨FBI SURVEILLANCE EXPOSED: Our lawsuit just exposed that the FBI implemented extensive nationwide social media monitoring ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The FBI’s National Election Command Post received lists of “multiple Twitter accounts posting misinformation.” 🧵
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/11🚨Enacting censorship laws In the meeting, the CDU shared how their proposal would allow them to directly coerce social media platforms to ensure that the government’s censorship demands were followed. By creating a new duty of care, the proposed legislation empowers a British regulatory agency to demand the censorship of content that the U.K. government deems harmful.
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/12 The U.K. Online Safety Act came into force in October of 2023 and is the basis under which U.K. law enforcement officials have threatened to extradite and jail U.S. citizens.
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/13 The law parallels recently resurfaced comments made by then Senator Kamala Harris in 2019, which called for the DOJ to punish social media companies that allowed “disinformation” and “misinformation.”
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/14 One of our separate investigations confirmed that the Biden-Harris White House solicited policy recommendations from the British-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—the group behind the U.K. Online Safety Act—and adopted commitments to hold companies accountable through DOJ prosecutions and FTC enforcement actions for allowing “online harassment” on their platforms.
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/15🚨Establish regular lines of communication between government and social media platforms The CDU also relies heavily on “trusted flagging relationships.” Effectively, this means when the government directs social media companies to censor specific posts and individuals. This behavior of flagging posts led us to initially file the lawsuit, which resulted in the production of these documents and is at the heart of the Missouri v. Biden case, in which we filed two key Amicus Briefs on behalf of dozens of members in the House of Representatives.
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/16 Prior doc releases we obtained in this litigation revealed that the Biden-Harris admin had also engaged in this sort of “trusted relationship” partnership with social media companies even before this meeting.
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/17🚨International government pressure The presentation appears to show that the U.K. government engages its foreign policy apparatus to further its censorship agenda and encouraged the U.S. to do the same. One of the so-called “significant benefits” of this approach would be, according to the presentation, that this unified front of government pressure would “encourag[e] cooperation from platforms.”
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/18 The U.K. Foreign Office and the U.S. Department of State appear to play important similar roles in this international government censorship partnership. By coordinating across left-wing authoritarian governments, they can manipulate the global population into believing that there is no alternative to massive government censorship of social media, and “industry” would “efficiently implement[] new systems and processes.” In 2021, the U.K. boasted of a close working relationship with the U.S., Australia, and Canada, as well as bilateral relationships with 20 additional countries. This begs the question: how many nations have come on board with this initiative by now?
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/19 The CDU presentation also highlights the role of multilateral institutions in this international engagement, specifically identifying the G7’s Rapid Response Mechanism and the United Nations Interagency Platform on Culture for Sustainable Development (IPCSD) under the heading: “Multilateral cooperation to counter disinformation.” The logos of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the European Center for Excellence of Countering Threats are visible under the heading, “International training and capability.”
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/20🚨Promote leftist dogma Part of the U.K. government’s presentation included a description of a U.K. initiative called the “Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme,” which was active in Eastern Europe from 2016 to 2021. According to their “Theory of Change,” one of the outcomes of this scheme was that the targeted populations would “reduce identification with pre-existing social biases” and increase “support for gender equality” and “liberal democratic values.”
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/21 These terms may sound innocuous, but in practice, they are covers for left-wing social re-engineering experiments. For instance, money from the CDMD Programme was used to fund the “Global Disinformation Index,” which runs an “advertising blacklist” for websites that they allege push “anti-trans narratives.”
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/22 These slides expose the Biden-Harris Administration’s cooperation with ideologically aligned leftist allies to push woke progressive dogmas while monitoring and censoring what Americans think and say.
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/23 This release comes on the heels of calls from House Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman, @RepNancyMace, to ensure that the 2024 election is protected from the deep state censorship that was prevalent in the 2020 election.
@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Mace is calling on President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris to provide all White House communications with social media companies and between federal employees about efforts to pressure social media platforms to censor online content. @RepNancyMace
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@RepNancyMace /24 Find the full slide deck linked at the bottom of our release here: https://aflegal.org/exclusive-america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collusion-in-biden-harris-government-censorship-regime/
@JohnStossel - John Stossel
Government is eager to censor. Until they get caught. The Department of Homeland Security terminated its creepy “Disinformation Governance Board.” But information that’s been censored behind the scenes, is just as disturbing. I’ll show you: https://t.co/eaqKJLOd4M
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
🔥 “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!” Musk Exposes Labour’s Secret U.S. Meddling 🚨 UK Labour accuses Elon Musk of undermining British democracy. But what if the real story is THEIR meddling in U.S. elections? 💥 Black ops, FEC complaints, and a crackdown on free speech—it’s a diplomatic bombshell with global implications. Here’s the full story 🧵
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
1/ Labour’s Accusations Against Musk 🇬🇧 In a viral post shared by Elon, Labour MP Barry Gardiner accused Musk of “undermining democracy”, claiming his criticism of the UK government was an attack on a “recently, democratically elected government.” But the allegations quickly turned back on Labour… 👇
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
2/ Musk Fires Back via Matt Goodwin Political analyst @GoodwinMJ called out Labour’s hypocrisy: “Barry, you belong to a party that sent activists to America to actively plot to, and I quote, ‘kill Elon Musk’s Twitter.’" Goodwin also highlighted Labour’s history of attacking Musk, Trump, and other dissenters. 🔗More details here: https://sayerji.substack.com/p/crossfire-of-democracy-uk-labour
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
3/ Labour’s U.S. Election Meddling 🇺🇸 Sofia Patel, Labour’s Head of Operations, was caught on LinkedIn coordinating activists to campaign for Harris-Walz in U.S. battleground states: ❗️Nearly 100 volunteers recruited. ❗️Housing & logistics arranged. As a result, Trump filed an FEC complaint, alleging illegal foreign contributions. 📖 Read more: bbc.com/news/articles/…
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
4/ The CCDH Connection 🌍 Labour’s ties to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) deepen the scandal: ❗️CCDH ran “black ops” targeting RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, aiming to suppress their influence and silence dissent. https://greenmedinfo.com/content/exposed-ccdh-ceo-imran-ahmed-orders-black-ops-against-rfk-jr-shocking-memo-lea ❗️Leaked directive: “Kill Musk’s Twitter” aimed to silence dissent and trigger U.S. & EU regulatory action. https://greenmedinfo.com/content/breaking-kill-musks-twitter-leaked-docs-reveal-british-advisors-kamala-harris- 🚨Morgan McSweeney, founder of CCDH, adds another layer of controversy: McSweeney is not only tied to CCDH but also served as key advisers to both Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris’s campaign, creating potential conflicts of interest that fuel allegations of coordinated interference. This web of influence reveals CCDH as more than just an NGO—it’s a political weapon for suppressing opposition and shaping narratives globally.
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
5/ 🚨But Labour Interferes in Their OWN Elections Too The hypocrisy is staggering: while accusing Musk of meddling, Labour-linked groups like CCDH and Hope Not Hate (HNH) have interfered in UK elections: ⁉️Susan Hall’s Mayoral Race: CCDH’s sister NGO, HNH, received funding from the UK’s Counter Extremism Unit, which was used to target Hall. NHN, the same NGO who UK grooming rape gang whistleblower @TRobinsonNewEra exposed, a British taxpayer-funded, government-directed NGO openly took credit for stealing her election chances as detailed below. These groups manipulate elections under the guise of combating "extremism" while crushing dissent. 🧩 Shared Staff: Jemma Levene, former Deputy Director of HNH, is now COO at CCDH. 📖 Full details from @CharlotteCGill : https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-funds-you-hope-not-hate-case
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
6/ Dark Money Funders 💰 CCDH and HNH act as proxies for government influence, using funds from: 💵Paul Hamlyn Foundation 💵Burrow Cadbury Trust 💵Rowntree Charitable Trust These organizations export their playbook globally, from targeting Cindy Hall in the UK to running black ops against RFK Jr. (the "disinfo dozen") and Musk in the U.S. In fact, leaked documents obtained via an @America1stLegal FOIA request reveal that as early as 2021, the Biden-Harris administration received a “masterclass” in censorship from the UK’s Countering Disinformation Unit (CDU); an interagency meeting which included discussing censoring election-related content, and which promoted a leftist, "woke" dogma. 🇬🇧 This shocking collaboration shows that the UK’s meddling in U.S. democratic institutions has been happening long before the recent election interference controversy surfaced. 📖 Learn more about this troubling, globally coordinated foreign influence operation attempting to censor, adjudicate and criminalize all free speech online: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collu 👉Learn more about CCDH's Funders: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/17-dark-money-funders-behind-ccdhs-kill-elon-s-twitter-directive1
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
7/ EO 13848 + U.S. Laws UK's Labour Party May Have Violated ⚖️ 1️⃣ EO 13848 (Executive Order 13848): ✅Signed in 2018 to address foreign interference in U.S. elections after allegations of Russian meddling in 2016. It targets any foreign entity attempting to: 🚨Undermine public confidence in elections. 🚨Manipulate outcomes through covert or overt means (e.g., disinformation or logistical support). 🚨Violators can face asset freezes, sanctions, and more. ✅Labour’s coordinated campaigns and CCDH’s black ops could fall squarely under this order’s provisions. 2️⃣ FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act): ✅Requires foreign entities or individuals working to influence U.S. politics on behalf of a foreign principal to register with the DOJ. 🚨Labour’s U.S.-based operations, including activist deployment and links to CCDH, could violate this act if unregistered. ❗️Penalties: Fines, prison, or forced disclosure of all activities and funding sources. 3️⃣ FECA (Federal Election Campaign Act) ✅Prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to U.S. elections, whether financially or through in-kind contributions like housing and logistics. 🚨Sofia Patel’s alleged coordination of activists to assist Harris-Walz in battleground states could breach FECA if Labour provided any form of support. These laws exist to protect U.S. democracy from foreign manipulation. Labour’s actions, if proven, may trigger serious consequences. 🔗Read Trump's complaint against the UK: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/re-complaint-against-labour-party-united-kingdom-and-harris-president
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
8/ Hypocrisy Exposed 🤔 While Labour accuses Musk of meddling in UK democracy, their alleged actions in the U.S.—sending activists, suppressing speech, and coordinating with CCDH—show a troubling pattern of interference. Who is really undermining democracy?
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
9/ Musk Calls Out ‘ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!’ 💥 @elonmusk has publicly blasted Labour, CCDH, and their allies, accusing them of orchestrating attacks on free speech and election integrity—not just in the UK, but in the US as well! The UK’s Online Safety Bill is so tyrannical it could allow Britain to prosecute U.S. citizens for violating their speech laws, effectively reviving “seditious libel laws” against a former colony. This isn’t just hypocrisy—it’s a diplomatic crisis. Elon Musk’s fight for free speech may be the last line of defense for countries where freedoms are being systematically eroded. If speech is silenced everywhere else, platforms like X remain a beacon of hope. 🔥Learn more by reading: The 'Kill Musk’s Twitter' Directive: A Modern 1776 Stand Against a Global Plot for Censorship and Election Interference https://greenmedinfo.com/content/kill-musk-s-twitter-directive-modern-1776-stand-against-global-plot-censorship2 #ElectionInterference #FreeSpeech #Musk #UKLabour #CCDH #DiplomaticCrisis
@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji
10/ Wrapping Up 🚨🇺🇸🇬🇧 As Trump’s campaign gains momentum, his FEC complaint against Labour awaits action—and if re-elected, he’s likely to pursue justice for these alleged foreign interference acts. Meanwhile, Elon faces growing pressure, with the EU Commission being urged to act over his so-called “election meddling.” What’s at Stake? 🗣️ Free Speech: CCDH’s campaigns threaten global discourse. 🗳️ Election Integrity: Labour’s actions undermine democracy. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 U.S.-UK Relations: These tensions could fracture transatlantic ties. What’s Next? Labour and CCDH must come clean. A public apology and reset may be their only way to avoid further fallout. Will they own up—or double down? #ElectionInterference #FreeSpeech #Musk #Trump #UKLabour #CCDH
@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. 🔥
@laralogan - Lara Logan
This is a real conspiracy to subvert the constitution & the will of the American people.
@America1stLegal - America First Legal
/1🚨BREAKING — Explosive new documents expose a massive government-backed censorship operation orchestrated by USAID, the Global Engagement Center, the UK government, and media firms to manipulate public discourse and silence Americans. https://t.co/ScJJeYoFcJ
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
It's hard to overstate how big this is. For years, the State Department ran a global censorship operation—not just in America, but across the West. Now, it's pushing free speech instead. Here's why this matters. 🧵
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
The "disinformation" and "hate speech" industry is one of the top threats to Western freedom today. "From its very beginnings," @SecRubio writes, this industry "has existed to protect the American establishment from the voices of forgotten Americans."
@SecRubio - Secretary Marco Rubio
Over the past half decade, our own governing ruling class nearly destroyed America's long free speech history. Today, we are putting that to an end. https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/16/rubio-to-protect-free-speech-the-censorship-industrial-complex-must-be-dismantled/
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
As Attorney General of Missouri, I sued the Biden admin for working with Big Tech to censor conservatives. We took them all the way to the Supreme Court. That case—Missouri v. Biden—led to the release of thousands of pages of documents detailing a vast censorship enterprise. https://t.co/YffN43srog
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
Piece by piece, we uncovered exactly how this system worked. Under Biden, government agencies funded an army of third-party censors and "disinformation" groups to do what they couldn't legally do themselves—censor American speech. More details here: https://t.co/vNDBYyAo8r
@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
One of the nerve centers of this censorship machine was the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC). Founded under Obama, the GEC was originally billed as a way to combat FOREIGN propaganda. But it began to target Americans—under the guise of fighting "disinformation." https://t.co/i8LTeUKzcB
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
And it wasn't just Americans. The GEC funded and worked with powerful NGOs pushing speech restrictions and creating advertiser blacklists—designed to crush conservative media—across the West. Your tax dollars were funding a global war against conservatives. As Rubio writes: https://t.co/1I03Q8VCks
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
These people were very good at burying their radicalism in neutral, harmless euphemisms—"disinformation," "information integrity," etc. But in practice, they were almost exclusively going after right-wing speech. This was an international effort to silence criticism of the Left.
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
For example: One GEC-funded group, the London-based Global Disinformation Index, compiled blacklists of media outlets to feed to advertisers—essentially a form of financial warfare against disfavored outlets. The top 10 outlets on its "disinformation" list were all on the right. https://t.co/sdjGwfu3dF
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
Last year, I led a fight in Congress to shutter the GEC for good. The agency was supposed to sunset at the end of 2024. But the Biden State Department simply renamed it, kept all the same employees, and tried to smuggle it into the next administration. https://t.co/Zfmi7fDTys
@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
That's how the administrative state works. It morphs and adapts to protect itself. But now, those of us in Congress who pushed for these reforms have an administration that shares our goals. As Rubio writes today: "Whatever name it goes by, GEC is dead. It will not return." https://t.co/M0VsQrrfAN
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
This is a huge step in dismantling the Left's censorship enterprise. Free speech—and in particular, free speech online—is one of the major battlefields of our time. It's one of the fights that will define whether we win or lose on everything else. It's a big, big win.
@America1stLegal - America First Legal
/1🚨BREAKING — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified the Biden Administration’s top-secret surveillance and censorship strategy — exposing a chilling plan to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against the American people. 🧵👇 https://t.co/su5GUkL3Ym
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/2 On April 2, AFL formally urged @DNIGabbard to declassify the Biden Administration’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy — a top-secret plan AFL uncovered through litigation against the Department of Homeland Security.
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/1🚨NEW: AFL is urging Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to declassify and release the Biden Admin’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy. The Biden Admin’s weaponization of the intelligence apparatus against Americans must be fully exposed. https://t.co/GLV9ylnwS6
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@DNIGabbard /3 This week, in direct response to AFL’s request, DNI Gabbard declassified and released the Biden Administration’s top-secret surveillance and censorship strategy.
@DNIGabbard - DNI Tulsi Gabbard
As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Read it here: https://www.odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/dig/4064-dig-strat-impl-plan-ct-biden https://t.co/p9co00Scge
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@DNIGabbard /4 This thread breaks down the Biden Administration’s once-classified plan to surveil Americans and censor free speech in the United States.
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@DNIGabbard /5 In 2021, without any evidence, the Biden Administration declared that the greatest threat to Americans was “right-wing domestic terrorism” from supporters of President Trump.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Internal docs from Biden’s DHS show their plans to target Trump supports as domestic extremists. The Brennan-Clapper intel group discussed how “most of the domestic terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president.” #DeepStateDiaries PART 2: https://t.co/q2HcoAe2Kd
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/6 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance strategy directed the State Department, FBI, DOJ, and CIA to “obtain from foreign partners foreign intelligence and information related to U.S.-based violent extremism.” In other words, the Biden Administration planned to outsource surveillance of Americans to foreign governments.
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/7 As a subset of that strategic goal, the Biden Administration asked the FBI, CIA, DHS, and the State Department to study how disinformation relates to the “domestic terrorism threat” — connecting the whole-of-society censorship program to the national security and intelligence apparatus.
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@DNIGabbard /8 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy pushed for “information sharing across all levels,” including with “state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement partners.” https://t.co/Jo3EY7I3RG
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@DNIGabbard /9 The left supports maximum information sharing with law enforcement to label conservatives as domestic terrorists… But if a local sheriff wants to work with ICE to turn over a murderous illegal alien, communication is prohibited because of “sanctuary” policies.
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/10 The classified censorship and surveillance strategy also calls for funding for “digital literacy programming.” Despite the domestic scope of this plan, the Biden Administration tapped the State Department and USAID to produce “digital literacy programming” to “combat misinformation” online.
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@DNIGabbard /11 As @MikeBenzCyber has shown, “digital literacy” is when organizations — such as NewsGuard — approve certain publications as “trustworthy” and then suppress “non-trustworthy” sources as “misinformation.”
@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz
"Nudge Theory" is the bedrock of an unholy new field, born after the 2016 election, called "media literacy" (also called "digital literacy") "Media literacy" means if you don't read the right news sources (aka, mainstream slop), you are "media illiterate" & must be re-educated. https://t.co/rykCF9556X
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/12 This classified strategy contains numerous parallels to documents from AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries, including the revelation that the “intelligence experts” group, led by John Brennan and James Clapper, suggested that DHS use people’s military and religious affiliations as indicators that they could be domestic terrorists.
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/4 Under the Brennan-Clapper committee’s approach to national security, when all else fails, DHS should use being “in the military” or “religious” to profile people and tag them as having “indicators of extremists and terrorism” as a pretext to allow DHS to spy on them. https://t.co/f2ucWhFgAW
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /13 The left tried to use this same tactic to smear now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, before his confirmation, suggesting he could be a white supremacist for having a tattoo of a cross. https://t.co/s4BQ5wMd45
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /14 On the left is an excerpt from the classified plan from 2021. On the right is an excerpt from the DHS meeting minutes from 2023. They are the same playbook. https://t.co/wj4cEzrRDJ
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /15 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance plan also appears to be the beginning of its push to label all domestic terrorists as “right wing” and threats to “public health.” https://t.co/hxhT2acDOF
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /16 Two years later, in a DHS “intelligence experts” group meeting, an unidentified member said this public health reclassification was important, so that mothers and teachers would feel more comfortable turning in their kids to authorities.
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/11 The very next speaker proposed another solution: reclassify “concerning” behavior into the “public health catcher’s mitt” so that “mother[s] and teacher[s]” feel comfortable coming forward. https://t.co/qQa40k0g5p
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/17 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy makes clear that the administration meant it when it said this was a “whole-of-government approach.” The same concepts and buzzwords throughout this implementation plan are used repeatedly in documents from the DHS “intelligence experts” group, which AFL sued and successfully disbanded.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 New docs reveal DHS intel group proposed: ✔️Americans should report their neighbors to the feds ✔️Reclassifying political dissent under the guise of “public health” so that “mothers and teachers” feel comfortable coming forward #DeepStateDiaries PART 1: https://t.co/oo5zP88uYo
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /18 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy outlines a plan to “share transnational approaches, good practices, and lessons learned” with “multilateral” meetings and “foreign government[s].” https://t.co/4ve0Ei2THu
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /19 AFL exposed that the Biden Administration hosted the UK Government’s “Counter Disinformation Unit” in 2021 to share its recommendations to censor speech with the White House during a meeting with the National Security Council.
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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD: https://t.co/bZ9H8gYQec
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /20 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy also emphasizes the importance of “increasing faith in democracy and the government,” another recurring theme in documents released in AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries. https://t.co/PnFFyIT3zH
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /21 Two years later, Brennan and Clapper’s “intelligence experts” group discussed how DHS could “quietly make democracy work” and use covert messaging campaigns to get the American public to feel certain ways about issues. https://t.co/MD6yYF6LEF
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /22 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance plan also calls for maximum law enforcement action against domestic terrorism crimes. https://t.co/OEtvzkAzAa
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /23 Domestic terrorists — like those setting fire to Tesla dealerships, burning governors’ mansions, and engaging in political violence — should absolutely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /24 This top-secret plan was created by the same administration that released the infamous October 4 DOJ memo labeling concerned parents at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”
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/1 Three years ago today Attorney General Garland issued a memo weaponizing the entire DOJ against parents for speaking out at school board meetings. With @DefendingEd we created a detailed timeline and are revealing shocking new details and context about the weaponized DOJ.🧵 https://t.co/RwtkMWdAE3
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /25 The same administration that labeled Trump supporters as domestic terrorists — while turning a blind eye to pro-Hamas vandals and rioters in cities and on college campuses across the country, actively spewing hatred, engaging in violence, and supporting actual terrorists.
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/1🚨BREAKING — We just sued Biden’s Department of Education for obstructing records on pro-Hamas college rallies including foreign extremists. Many of these radical students are here on F-1 student visas. Deport. Hamas. Sympathizers. THREAD: https://t.co/t8BpOWkMFI
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /26 The Biden Administration weaponized the entire intelligence apparatus — the NSC, ODNI, CIA, FBI, DOJ, and the State Department — to target, censor, and silence the very people it was responsible for protecting.
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /27 AFL will continue fighting to expose and dismantle the left’s weaponization of our intelligence community against the American people.
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The Biggest Information-Control Operation You Didn’t Know Existed https://t.co/taT5e7wU93
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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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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD: https://t.co/bZ9H8gYQec
