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 ...
I know. Kamala needs to take some of my freedom of speech away to give it to folks of color.
DHS Complicit In Drug Cartel Human Trafficking December 21, 2013
Report: Homeland Security Officials Took Millions in Bribes to 'Look the Other Way' on Drug Cartels December 31, 2016
When CWII comes the people running these organizations will be legitimate priority targets.
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Prayers up for your recovery, Jim.
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Biggest story of the year.
Getting almost no traction even here.
Aside from a few Republicans making noise , what will happen?
Nothing.
McConnell and McCarthy are fine with this.
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Still flat on my back. Trying to use speech recognition, takes forever to edit.
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Get well, sir!
So, Biden’s fascist Nazis had the Free Republic Facebook page shut down?
That’s a turd in the punch bowl from whichever angle you’re viewing.
From un.org: Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.
However, the UN is now starting to re-frame the human right of freedom of speech as only freedom of thought.
Hope that doesn’t go on much longer. Gee it’s been a long haul for you.
“Conspiracy to commit election fraud.”
I share your concern with the mid-terms around the corner.
How are you doing? Keeping you in prayer.
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