Thread by @America1stLegal

/1🚨BREAKING — We filed a class-action lawsuit against “Election Integrity Partnership” & “Virality Project” for conspiring with the federal government to censor conservative political speech.

We are going after the architects of censorship.

Read on ⤵️

/2 Today, we filed a federal class-action lawsuit against key persons and entities involved in the “Election Integrity Partnership” and the “Virality Project,” on behalf of the co-Director of Health Freedom Louisiana and the founder of @gatewaypundit

aflegal.org/america-first-…

/3 Defendants include the Stanford Internet Observatory and its Director and Research Manager, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta, Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Research Council’s Digital Forensic Lab.

/4 This historic lawsuit alleges that these parties conspired with the federal government to conduct a mass surveillance/censorship operation targeting the political speech of millions of Americans on social media platforms.

/5 This operation was specifically designed to target conservative political speech on questions of great public interest like election integrity, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccine mandates.

/6 The scope of the surveillance and censorship cannot be overstated.

The Defendants admitted that during 2020, they surveilled a staggering 859 million posts on Twitter alone and that they tracked for possible censorship almost 22 million Tweets.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644086708252684288

/7 During 2021, they tracked posts about COVID with about 200 million engagements for possible censorship.

Americans who spoke out against the liberal orthodoxy faced censorship and de-platforming by Big Tech and these elusive surveillance orgs acting with the government.

https://twitter.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1644377461239447553

/8 Our lawsuit alleges that this massive operation was concocted in collusion with government officials — including federal national security officials — to evade the First Amendment, all while shielding the government bureaucracy.

https://twitter.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1653394427681931265

/9 If proven, this is an overt, intentional, and explosive violation of the Constitution at the hands of the government.

Full report explaining this government collusion from @FFO_Freedom @MikeBenzCyber

/10 The crusade we see against free speech in America, seemingly every day, is fundamentally antithetical to the country that our Founders intended and is rooted in a deep animosity toward the Constitution.

/11 The concept of a government “by the people, for the people” has been inverted – the federal bureaucracy is not operating for the people; it is actively working against them with the help of weaponized private actors – it is time for accountability. aflegal.org/america-first-…