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The Intercept published a set of leaks that drew broad interest in perhaps the most undercovered scandal inside the US gov: DHS's quiet move to establish, for the first time in US history, an inward-facing domestic censorship bureau. #TwitterFiles

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DHS censorship team.

"120 People", "Huge Teams Behind Each Of Us"

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15 tech platforms monitored for “misinformation” often in real-time.

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1 hour average response time between government partners and tech platforms

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Dozens of “misinformation narratives” targeted for platform-wide throttling.

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Millions of FB posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, & tweets impacted due to misinformation TOS policy changes that DHS openly plotted & bragged tech companies would never have done without DHS partner insistence and “huge regulatory pressure” from government.

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While The Intercept rightly noted that DHS's “truth cops“ now take on a range of other topics – such as Covid-19 and geopolitical opinions – it all started from, and grew out of, DHS's speech control infrastructure set up to censor speech about elections.

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At Foundation for Freedom Online, we've been publishing & sharing research about a wide span of shocking components to DHS's speech control operations. Our investigation has spurred multiple members of Congress to vow probes into DHS's censorship.

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In the final section of the report, we will cover a disturbing aspect of this story — DHS's pre-censorship of speech that could cast doubt on a so-called “red mirage, blue shift” election scenario, months in advance of such an exact sequence playing out.

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CISA's censorship power grew out of interpreting critical infrastructure beyond its hard physical meaning to apply to meta-physical concepts. By 2019, “foreign disinfo” on social media was increasingly framed as a cyber threat to election infrastructure.

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When the 2016 election-era “Russian interference” Special Prosecutor's probe ended in July 2019 with Robert Mueller's failure to find “collusion” between then-President Trump and outside Russians, DHS and CISA began to change their tunes.

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Krebs said in April 2022 that the Hunter Biden laptop still looked like Russian disinfo & that he didn't care whether it was or wasn't Russian disinfo; the important thing was that news media did not cover the laptop during the 2020 election cycle.

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Krebs said that every lawyer who represented conservative clients on claims concerning 2020 election irregularities should be permanently disbarred and banned from legal practice for life.

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Krebs said he hopes conservative media outlets are bankrupted & forced to pay billions in damages in the lawsuit by Dominion. He stressed the same fate should apply to anyone in the news media who questioned US voting machines during the 2020 election.

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Krebs said he personally canceled his DirecTV subscription in protest of conservative-leaning OANN having been allowed to have a platform on cable.

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Krebs said that the sitting President in 2020, Donald Trump, was a national security threat because he espoused domestic “disinformation.”

Krebs said he feels equally passionate about the need to censor critics of government Covid-19 protocols as he does about censoring critics of government election administration issues.

Krebs is so passionate about censorship he even called for a social media crackdown on the sale of humor tee-shirts that make jokes about Covid-19.

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Kreb's role in gov was not supposed to be as arbiter of truth; he was supposed to be a cybersecurity expert from Microsoft. Yet US citizen opinions on social media became the top cyber security threat facing the US, replacing foreign hacking and malware.

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Shortly before President Biden's inauguration, Krebs started a private consulting firm with former Facebook executive Alex Stamos, simply called “Krebs Stamos Group.”

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Stamos, covered extensively below, was perhaps the top figure overseeing the entire private sector side of the public-private censorship enterprise that Krebs and Stamos jointly built to censor populist political voices during the 2020 election.

Stamos who, according to his own group's report, pitched the idea in July 2020 for DHS to even create a government censorship apparatus in the first place.

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Easterly & Krebs held a discussion at CISA's “Cybersecurity Summit 2021” in which they mutually agreed that Krebs's construction of a “counter-misinformation” conglomerate with the private sector was among the top structures to preserve and expand at DHS.

Before discussing the private sector side, it should be noted that the government apparatus at DHS is now larger and scattered beyond just CISA.

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The main character on the private sector side is a “counter-disinformation” collective called the Election Integrity Partnership. EIP is made up of four of the most powerful and politically well-connected social media monitoring and mass-reporting groups in the world.

The four entities comprising EIP are:

1. Stanford Internet Observatory
2. University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public
3. The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab
4. Graphika

The four entities comprising EIP are also connected to the US military & foreign policy establishment & they went into the 2020 election cycle with pre-existing connections having worked together on censorship issues at the social media platforms.

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EIP leader Alex Stamos said the whole DHS-EIP partnership was set up to outsource censorship through EIP, “to try to fill the gap of the things that the gov could not do themselves” because the gov “lacked both the funding & the legal authorizations”.

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EIP did not just do “research”: they manually flagged posts and personally pressured for policy changes. That is active censorship, not passive research.

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Stamos describes how he had already lined up the tech companies to join the public-private censorship apparatus so EIP could quickly go straight from scanning posts to banning them.

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This portal is for onboarded partner requests pertaining to content issues on Facebook and Instagram. If you are an onboarded partner, please put in your request through this portal.

It is still active.

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DHS, EIP and social media companies all on a shared real-time chat app (Jira Service Desk) to coordinate speech takedowns all as a single, seamless unit.

EIP, in their own report, shows they throttled 822,477 tweets alone on the #Sharpiegate topic. And that's just Twitter — not including YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms named in the tickets above. That means millions of posts were impacted.

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These are the accounts and narratives that the EIP determined to be the most egregious.

The Stanford Internet Observatory (“SIO” or “Stanford disinfo lab”) is an academic center set up in June 2019 for the purposes of promoting Internet censorship policies and for doing real-time social media narrative monitoring of targeted political and social causes.

During the 2020 election, SIO had 50 “misinformation” analysts at the university assigned to monitor conservative social media posts after SIO began its partnership with CISA.

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Before receiving a $3 million grant from the Biden regime in 2021, SIO was originally funded by private foundations such as Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Omidyar Network, and the Koch Foundation.

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SIO is run by director Alex Stamos & research manager Renee DiResta. Stamos's goal is to end a free and open Internet and move toward a controlled “cable news network” model where socially impactful views must first be authorized by a gatekeeper.

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In June 2021, Stamos states quite plainly that the target for censorship is simply ordinary people with large follower accounts who have the ability to impact public narratives.

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In Dec 2019, Krebs, then head of CISA, traveled from DC to California for a roundtable with Stamos and his new “misinformation” team at Stanford (they specifically discussed “election security” for the 2020 election, which includes “misinformation”).

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In the run-up to the 2020 election, while Chris Krebs was running CISA, Stamos was a frequent panel speaker on CISA “disinformation” panels.

In December 2021, with Jen Easterly at CISA's helm, Stamos was directly made a member of CISA's private sector advisory committee, where he has regular meetings with CISA brass.

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DiResta, as noted above, gave a 15 minute keynote lecture at a taxpayer-funded October 2021 CISA summit, in which DiResta described how EIP and DHS worked together to censor social media narratives at scale before, during and after the 2020 election.

The NYT exposed that DiResta's dem donor-funded small cybersecurity firm, New Knowledge, had clandestinely created thousands of fake Russian bots on Twitter and Facebook then mass subscribed those bots to Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore's campaign.

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In a race in which Moore narrowly lost, New Knowledge – in its own report — took credit. At the time, mainstream news thought Roy Moore was being backed by Russians. But it was DiResta's professional disinformation firm interfering in the election.

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The scandal was so bad that DiResta's future co-partner in the EIP censorship coalition, the Atlantic Council, called out how egregiously disastrous and morally repugnant the depths of her company's deception was in effectively rigging the Senate vote.

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According to the NYT, DiResta's firm bragged in an internal report after Moore lost the election: “We orchestrated an elaborate 'false flag' operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.”

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in Nov. 2017, DiResta appeared on live TV as an expert on “social media disinformation” — opining on disinformation in the very Senate race her firm was secretly conducting “black hat” false flag cyber operations on behind the scenes.

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DiResta would go on to be a lead author of the Democrat-led Senate Intelligence Report on “Russian disinformation in the 2016 election” in November 2019.

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Stamos and DiResta are both members of the Council on Foreign Relations, which recently argued the “free and open Internet model” is no longer working and the US should adopt a more semi-closed and speech restrictive posture.

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The CFR is one of the top NGOs pushing for global technocratic governance. As I always says... They have to control the message to control the masses.

Mark Warner (D-VA), had a panel discussion with Krebs in 2019 at a DHS-CISA conference in DC. In that panel, Warner boasted to Krebs that he had dinner with FB CEO Zuckerberg.

For the dinner, Senator Warner claimed he had the Senate Intelligence Committee effectively threaten Zuckerberg with heavy-handed regulation if Zuckerberg didn't do what was expected of him, especially on content moderation/censorship) on the platform.

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The Stanford disinfo lab was the site of where President Obama gave his “social media misinformation is a threat to democracy” speech in April 2022.

It was Alex Stamos's department at Stanford who hosted President Obama for that speech. The introduction to President Obama was given by Stamos's boss at Stanford and the head of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Michael McFaul.

Again as a reflection of the partisan bias of the personnel DHS outsourced social media censorship to, McFaul was a loud, proud and driving force behind the Congressional impeachment of President Trump in 2019.

In 2020, while McFaul was tweeting that Trump could no longer lead because he had lost the intelligence community and the military, McFaul's lieutenants Alex Stamos & Renee DiResta were deputized by Chris Krebs's CISA to censor millions of Trump supporters ahead of the election.

Facts like this help explain how every single “repeat misinformation spreader” account EIP reported for throttling in the 2020 election cycle was a right-wing populist account. EIP targeted the same populists for takedowns on essentially every platform.

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