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/1 @NaomiNixWrites and @josephmenn with the @washingtonpost claim government censorship is a “conspiracy theory.”
Widespread collusion between the government, tech, and academia is well documented and we have the receipts…
Widespread collusion between the government, tech, and academia is well documented and we have the receipts…
https://twitter.com/josephmenn/status/1666131327631118339
/2 The @EI_Partnership report, authored by @Stanford and @UW reveal the stakeholder groups they worked with to censor free speech, including @CISA and @TheGEC @StateDept. 
/3 The EIP, in its own words admits, even brags, about the collusion and touts how it was run by Stanford university students:
/4 But if reading EIP’s own statements about itself wasn’t enough, Naomi could have looked at AFL’s work which exposed that the CDC was sending Twitter officials tweets they wanted removed.
https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1600246196102389760
/5 Or she could have read our thread from two weeks ago where we explained how the @StateDept works with “private” media orgs, to push propaganda…maybe she missed it, it only had 2.1M views.
https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1661361562580287489
/6 Or, if Naomi was an investigative journalist, she could have looked at the lawsuit we filed against the architects of censorship, who brazenly conspired with the federal government to censor political speech: aflegal.org/america-first-…
/7 It has been nearly a year since AFL first exposed this explicit coordination, including tech grants to the government, “partner support” portals” and more.
https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1552416618671706116
/8 There is also a trove of evidence from the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, including thousands of pages of evidence and deposition transcripts.
/9 And, if all of this wasn’t enough, Naomi could have followed the money, like a real investigative journalist, to see that all this censorship work is government funded.
/10 University of Texas has received over $2 million from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to “combat misinformation.”
https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1630952985403486208?s=20
/11 Stanford received $3 million from the National Science Foundation and $250,000 from the DOD to study “Accessible machine learning for misinformation and influence operation analysis.”
/13 UW’s CIP was one of the participant organizations of the EIP and is funded by (among others) the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, and the State of Washington. cip.uw.edu/about/
/14 AFL is also leading an investigation into the extent of the government’s funding of the censorship network, which can be found here:
https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1622982498723536897?s=20
/15 But publicly available information shows that another EIP partner, Graphika, received a $3 million grant from the DOD after the 2020 election.
/16 All of this information was available to Naomi and Joseph before they published their article.
Political censorship isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s documented and proven, had they bothered to look.
Political censorship isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s documented and proven, had they bothered to look.
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