Posted on 09/30/2022 2:52:25 PM PDT by conservative98
A consortium of four private groups worked with the departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and State to censor massive numbers of social media posts they considered misinformation during the 2020 election, and its members then got rewarded with millions of federal dollars from the Biden administration afterwards, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News.
The Election Integrity Partnership is back in action again for the 2022 midterm elections, raising concerns among civil libertarians that a chilling new form of public-private partnership to evade the First Amendment's prohibition of government censorship may be expanding.
The consortium is comprised of four member organizations: Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, and social media analytics firm Graphika. It set up a concierge-like service in 2020 that allowed federal agencies like Homeland's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and State's Global Engagement Center to file "tickets" requesting that online story links and social media posts be censored or flagged by Big Tech.
Three liberal groups — the Democratic National Committee, Common Cause and the NAACP — were also empowered like the federal agencies to file tickets seeking censorship of content. A Homeland-funded collaboration, the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, also had access.
In its own after-action report on the 2020 election, the consortium boasted it flagged more than 4,800 URLs — shared nearly 22 million times on Twitter alone — for social media platforms. Their staff worked 12-20 hour shifts from September through mid-November 2020, with "monitoring intensif[ying] significantly" the week before and after Election Day.
The tickets sought removal, throttling and labeling of content that raised questions about mail-in ballot integrity, Arizona's "Sharpiegate," and other election integrity issues of concern to conservatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Canceled dissent only serves to explode later. Aughta resist that temptation.
Sounds like they’re admitting guilt
I think we have a few of them on here tasked with promoting Biden’s proxy war for WWIII.
Look at their forum posts, 99% of them are related to and arguing in favor of the globalists’ desires.
They know they can’t get “censorship” here, so they denigrate all opposition for the proxy war.
1st amendment anyone?
Conspiracy to commit election fraud.
Ah, that’s so outdated.
(war for WWIII)
It’s incredible - and insane
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Hey! You up and at ‘em?
Good!!
Good to see you posting!
Facebook runs the elections now so I am surprised that news like this leaks out.
Just goes to show that merely having a president like Trump and barely a majority in congress didn’t/doesn’t and won’t mean squat. The swamp is a self serving behemoth. Fedgov would have to be slimmed down to 20% of what it currently is.
Still flat on my back. Trying to use speech recognition, takes forever to edit.
...that a chilling new form of public-private partnership to evade the First Amendment’s prohibition of government censorship may be expanding.
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“Public-private partnership” is the polite name for fascism.
Good to see you post!
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“...censor massive numbers of social media posts they considered misinformation”
They didn’t “consider” them misinformation, they labeled them misinformation to push their own agenda.
Go to see you post Boss.
5.56mm
I have a great idea:
NO CONSERVATIVE OR COMMON SENSE PERSON SHOULD EVER E V E R USE SOCIAL MEDIA.
The thrill of the new “toy” should be over.
Leave all of them with their hands in their pockets.
Yep.
Good to see ya
TRUMP’S DHS and STATE created and used this unconstitutional monster against him.
Talk about insurrection.
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