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  • Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020

    09/30/2022 2:52:25 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 32 replies
    Just the News ^ | 9/30/22 | Greg Piper and John Solomon
    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...
  • “SharpieGate” Resurfaces: Archived Web Captures Reveal More

    07/22/2021 5:47:16 PM PDT · by bitt · 11 replies
    uncoverdc.com/ ^ | July 21, 2021 | Wendi Strauch Mahoney
    SharpieGate resurfaces with a historical review of archived posts from the Maricopa County Recorder. On October 26, 2020, guidance for the use of Sharpies changed, and voters were instructed to use Sharpie markers to fill out their ballots. Voting machines and ballots were changed for the Democratic Presidential Preference Election in March 2020. The equipment and ballots were used in all ensuing elections. The equipment and ballots were changed, in part, so that voters could use Sharpies that are “fast drying.” YET, the guidance discouraging the use of Sharpies stayed in place until October 26. SB1135 was put in place...
  • Video: Arizona Voters Force Election Officer To Admit That Sharpies Will Impact The Vote – New Election Laws Say Sharpies Have No Impact On The Vote

    11/05/2020 6:12:53 AM PST · by USA Conservative · 26 replies
    Red State Nation ^ | 11.05.2020 | Sarah Hall
    The result of the election is still unclear today with several key swing states still in play including Arizona, where Joe Biden’s comfortable lead over Trump shrank overnight, wreaking havoc on the results and prompting a posse of armed Trump voters to descend on counting centers. As tensions flared in Arizona overnight, armed pro-Trump protesters descended on a counting center in Maricopa County, after Biden’s commanding 200,000-vote lead was slashed to just 68,000 as ballots continued being tallied. They faced off with police and security outside the counting center, chanting that every vote should be counted with the result in...
  • National Weather Service workers are 'disgusted' at their NOAA bosses for 'throwing them under the..

    09/07/2019 8:26:24 AM PDT · by RummyChick · 113 replies
    daily mail ^ | 9/7/2019 | JENNIFER SMITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    Workers in the National Weather Service are 'shocked, stunned and irate' at their bosses in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for backing Trump up and claiming that he was right to say Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama. In a string of baffling developments now known as 'Sharpiegate', the row centers on the president's September 1 tweet that the brutal storm was likely to hit Alabama 'harder' than expected. The NWS Birmingham office quickly issued a tweet to insist the state was not in the storm's path. Trump then defended his statement and insist it was based on early...
  • Agency reverses course on Trump's Alabama hurricane claim (once again, Trump is right)

    09/06/2019 8:00:52 PM PDT · by cba123 · 23 replies
    WASHINGTON — A federal agency reversed course Friday on the question of whether President Donald Trump tweeted stale information about Hurricane Dorian potentially hitting Alabama, upsetting meteorologists around the country. On Sunday, Trump had warned that Alabama, along with the Carolinas and Georgia, was “most likely to be hit (much) harder than anticipated.” The National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, tweeted in response: “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.” But the president has been adamant throughout the week that...
  • Statement from NOAA

    09/06/2019 10:20:42 PM PDT · by Synthesist · 59 replies
    NOAA ^ | 6SEP2019 | Unknown NOAA Spokesperson
    From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama. This is clearly demonstrated in Hurricane Advisories #15 through #41, which can be viewed at the following link. The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
  • Trump drags ‘Sharpiegate’ into second day as latest self-inflicted wound festers

    09/06/2019 5:00:25 PM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 39 replies
    Roll Call ^ | 9/5/19 | John T. Bennett
    President Donald Trump on Thursday dragged another self-created scandal into another day as he defended a map he displayed a day earlier of Hurricane Dorian’s expected path that appeared to have been altered, prompting howls from Democrats and accusations that he was putting lives in danger. White House aides were eager last week to portray a commander in chief as deeply involved in the federal government’s efforts to prepare for and respond to Dorian. The storm even did the Trump team a favor when it turned away from Florida, sparing the Sunshine State the kind of catastrophic direct hit that...