JULY 31, 2020 : (Laurence Tribe appears on MSNBC speculates on what could happen if electoral college can make no clear decision in upcoming election ) Liberal Supreme Court Justice In Waiting Who Never Was Laurence Tribe gave away the ultimate Democrat election game plan to Joy Reid on MSNBC on July 31. As he explains, via massive use of mail-in ballots which, as we have already seen, cause chaos, confusion, and delay, the electoral college could be unable to choose a clear winner of the election. If no winner is determined by this January 20 then, according to Tribe, Nancy Pelosi would become president...if the Democrats retain control of the House.
JULY 31, 2020 : (Atlantic Council DFRL email states an “election integrity partnership” at the request of DHS and CISA -— see Stanford University, censorship, cyber security, social media ) One of EIP’s founding partners — the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab — described CISA’s central role in the alleged censorship effort in a July 31, 2020, email.
“I know the Council has a number of efforts on broad policy around the elections, but we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA and are in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo,” the lab’s senior director Graham Brookie wrote. —— via NY Post
MAY 2020 : (DHS email) DHS acknowledged that it could not “openly endorse” a centralized portal to flag information in a May 2020 email released in the staff report, which cleared the way for Stanford’s EIP to take up the effort in July of that year [2020].
The task force used a tactic known as “switchboarding” to refer to removal requests from state and local officials to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, which CISA-CFITF Director Brian Scully confirmed in testimony in the bombshell case Missouri v. Biden —— NY Post
2016 : () Foreign disinformation became a focus of the U.S. government after Russia’s state-sanctioned attempts to interfere in the 2016 election, which relied in part on bots and trolls to amplify falsehoods disseminated through social media.
Following the election, Congress passed a bipartisan law, the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which established the State Department’s GEC.
Since then, government entities charged with combating foreign disinformation have proliferated. —— The Intercept
2017 : (FBI establishes FITF -— see Censorship) In the fall of 2017, the FBI established the Foreign Influence Task Force. -— The Intercept
2018 : (DHS establishes CFITF-— see Censorship) In 2018, the Department of Homeland Security established the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force.
-— The Intercept
2021 : (DHS’s CFITF is updated to include a misinfo/disinfo/malinfo team) In 2018, the Department of Homeland Security established the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force — which in 2021 was updated to include a misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation team — as well as a Foreign Influence and Interference Branch and last year [2022], the Disinformation Governance Board. -— The Intercept