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Feb 7 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Musk isn’t wrong… but I’m not sure he presently understands just how bad the GEC actually is…

FFO has covered GEC extensively, see links below:

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Feb 8
THREAD: I will be live-reacting to today's House Oversight Committee, titled "Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story" in the tweets below.

Follow along with the Congressional livestream here:

2. Table-setting: A preview of key issues for Committee to probe:

- AI censorship and the deployment of algorithms to stop citizens from talking *to each other* about the Hunter laptop story

- Gadde’s relationship w CISA & EIP

- Yoel’s wargame exercise with Aspen Insitute
3. Comer's opening remarks were excellent. Notable framing choices:

- Embraced "Virtual Town Square" as Internet free speech standard
- Championed Elon Musk as free speech ally, divided Twitter eras in to "Pre" and "Post" Musk
- Singled out Yoel Roth Aspen Institute exercise
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Feb 7
The founder of the GEC literally called to end the First Amendment

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Did I mention Rick Stengel, the founder of the GEC, is also a constant keynote and panel speaker at Atlantic Council censorship consensus-building events:

And if you want a real wild, Rick Stengel connected GEC to Aspen Institute Cyber...

GEC founder Rick Stengel, Integrity Initiative + DHS Disinformation Governance Board Nina Jankowicz, & Google Jigsaw's Yasmin Green, all coordinating censorship plan:

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Feb 6
I'm in this space here. Thread below of citations that I mentioned while holding the conch shell:
2. Here is the FFO report with a deep dive investigation of the relationship between the DHS and the Atlantic Council:

report.foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-9-22.html

CC: @stillgray
3. Thread highlights on John Podesta and the Transition Integrity Project (TIP):

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Feb 5
My take on the upcoming House Oversight Committee hearing on the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Takeaway: Target them on narrative-level censorship, which is where 95% of the damage is done.
For example, I don’t think direct evidence has yet come to light confirming tweets about Hunter Biden were censored at the narrative level. We only know about the incident level.

Congress should press witnesses on whether Hunter-related keywords were added to the flagging AI.
It’s almost inconceivable that they weren’t. So the most interesting reveal will be how they rigged the AI to map out of the topography of conservative talking pointe and emerging narratives about Hunter to systemically stifle conservative and only conservative tweets about it.
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Jan 30
The Biden Admin is funding next-generation censorship technologies with millions of dollars in cash infusions to start-up AI censorship projects.

Their targets are Covid critics and political conservatives. Full report here:

foundationforfreedomonline.com/?page_id=875
2. The censorship laundering process:

One technique is the federal gov't funds universities & NGOs to develop new censorship technologies for tech platform to use to censor more.

Another technique is gov't funding AI tools for journalists to mass flag posts & communities first. ImageImage
3. In Sept 2021, Biden's NSF took a Trump-era program to solve "grand challenges" like quantum technology & used it for the science of censorship.

Called "Track F: Trust & Authenticity."

The premise: If trust in government could not be earned, it would have to be installed. Image
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Jan 18
They’re not just confessing. They’re bragging. This is how the raise donor dollars for new levels of funding — by demonstrating how effective their censorship was in crushing the donors’ political opposition.
Just 3 mo’s after the man in this video (Alex Stamos) confessed his 2020 censorship deeds in a public tell-all report, his group got federal gov’t funding for the first time ever, to censor future elections.

Bragging about it got him & partners $3 million. From your tax pockets.
Receipts

fsi.stanford.edu/news/225m-fund…
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