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Bombshell: Feds Paid Companies to Silence Trump, His Family, and Supporters on Social Media Around 2020 Election
westernjournal.com ^ | 10/2/2022 | Michael Austin, The Western Journal

Posted on 10/03/2022 7:37:46 AM PDT by bitt

The federal government has been working with a group of four private companies to flag supposed election “misinformation” for censorship by social media platforms.

Two recent reports, published on Friday and Saturday by Just the News, reveal the group was responsible for the censorship of 20 news outlets during the 2020 election.

After Biden was in the White House, Just the News reported, the group was “rewarded” with millions of taxpayer dollars and its work continues today.

Most of the targeted groups were right-leaning in their coverage. Those outlets include Just the News, the New York Post, The Epoch Times, The Washington Times and the Washington Examiner.

In addition, the group, which calls itself the Election Integrity Partnership, put together a list of “repeat spreaders” of election misinformation in 2020. The list included now-former President Donald Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump and a number of other prominent right-leaning figures on social media.

The four members of the EIP are the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and Graphika, which deals in social media analytics.

In a lengthy report dated June 15, 2021, the EIP describes itself as an “information exchange” between various entities, including “election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, social media platforms, the media, and the research community.” The report said the EIP helps these groups pass information back and forth regarding supposed “mis- and disinformation” occurring on social media.

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KEYWORDS: 2020election; atlanticcouncil; bigtech; braking; eip; feds; freespeech; graphika; internet; rico; sedition; socialmedia; stanford; technotyranny; uwashington
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1 posted on 10/03/2022 7:37:46 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 10/03/2022 7:38:02 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'width=50%> )
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It would be a shock if they did not do this. I am surprised the Feds had to pay. I thought the companies would voluntarily do this.


3 posted on 10/03/2022 7:38:45 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: bitt

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election#article

Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/news-organizations-targeted-fascist-public-private-partnership-stamp-out

Just the News, New York Post, Fox News, Epoch Times and Breitbart were identified among the “most prominent domains” whose election coverage was cited in tweets flagged by the Election Integrity Partnership and its collaborators.


4 posted on 10/03/2022 7:39:52 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

Oh goody, another bombshell? 🤪🤗😆🤭


5 posted on 10/03/2022 7:41:12 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: bitt

Insurrection.


6 posted on 10/03/2022 7:41:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: bitt

I am going to file this under No Effn S+++


7 posted on 10/03/2022 7:42:29 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Mark17

So what is anybody doing about this “Bombshell”?


8 posted on 10/03/2022 7:43:07 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: bitt

Fundamental to the steal and totalitarian in outlook and practice.


9 posted on 10/03/2022 7:43:08 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Jeebus! The FR Ukie Narrative Offensive has opened full bore! Got to get their licks in before Wednesday and the finalization of accession of the four new oblasts...

Indeed, "insurrection".

President Trump was the head of the government that was working against him.

10 posted on 10/03/2022 7:43:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: bitt

Thanks.


11 posted on 10/03/2022 7:44:36 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ProudDeplorable
So what is anybody doing about this “Bombshell”?

The usual, nothing.

12 posted on 10/03/2022 7:45:01 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: bitt

I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

And then they still had to cheat.


13 posted on 10/03/2022 7:45:08 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: nwrep

The Feds paid the MSM to promote the vaccines. All the MSM including Fox News and Newsmax took the money.
Why would you expect them to do it voluntarily? Just because they are liberals?


14 posted on 10/03/2022 7:45:54 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ProudDeplorable
So what is anybody doing about this “Bombshell”?

It's not a "bombshell," it's obvious.

It would be a "bombshell" if the congressional Republicans did something about it.

You can be damn sure that if the party labels were reversed, the Democrats wouldn't stop until people were marched off to a prison cell.

15 posted on 10/03/2022 7:46:07 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: bitt

😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴


16 posted on 10/03/2022 7:46:57 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Yes. They drink from the same fountain of beliefs.


17 posted on 10/03/2022 7:48:41 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Unfortunately the Republicans won’t do anything. However, saying that if the Federal government used taxpayer money to partnership with the private sector to go after a Presidential candidate, who is the President I would say there is a nice class action lawsuit against those companies as well as RICO violations that should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.


18 posted on 10/03/2022 7:51:44 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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To: Mark17

It actually is a huge bombshell. It’s just that we’ve seen hundreds of huge “bombshells” come and nothing happens.

If it was proved Biden’s hurricane machine caused Ian, it would just quietly appear and disappear from the news with no repercussions.


19 posted on 10/03/2022 7:52:42 AM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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To: nwrep

I am surprised the Feds had to pay. I thought the companies would voluntarily do this.

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The overwhelming number of Feds are liberals so this is no surprise. They will do anything to perpetuate the corrupt system that nourishes and rewards them. Simple as that.


20 posted on 10/03/2022 7:53:45 AM PDT by Starboard
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