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/1🚨🔎 BREAKING — We launched a multi-front investigation into government collusion with the pro-censorship UK-based nonprofit “Center for Countering Digital Hate.”

Let’s unpack how this group is working tirelessly to kill free speech in America⤵️ Image
/2 We filed a series FOlA requests with HHS, the FBI, DHS, and the State Department, seeking their communications with Imran Ahmed and his group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).


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/3 CCDH is a UK-based nonprofit that has been encouraging censorship online for years. It originates from and is staffed with many individuals in the United Kingdom.
/4 However, it has been incorporated in the United States and registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States, effective as of December 11, 2020. Image
/5 CCDH describes itself as a "not-for-profit non-governmental organization" that "works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation through innovative research, public campaigns and policy advocacy." Image
/6 CCDH describes its founder and CEO, Imran Ahmed, as an “authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories.”
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/7 Imran Ahmed and members of CCDH's board consist of political operatives affiliated with the highest levels of the UK Labour Party.
/8 Through his work with Stop Funding Fake News, which was later folded into CCDH, Imran Ahmed took credit for a so-called "defund racism" campaign associated with Black Lives Matter to force Google to remove their ads from The Federalist and ZeroHedge. https://t.co/WYDcFd2kcFnbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…


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/9 Today, Imran Ahmed leads both CCDH US and CCDH UK and "employ[s] a large team of people who collaborate together to fulfill the shared mission of both organizations."
/10 In March of 2021, the CCDH published a report labeling a group of influential COVID lockdown critics "the Disinformation Dozen.” Image
/11 In that report, CCDH explicitly calls for these Americans, including @RobertKennedyJr to be deplatformed. Image
@RobertKennedyJr /12 The Biden Admin and 12 Democratic state attorneys general were happy to comply, working with social media companies to eliminate accounts and crush disfavored narratives and accounts selected by the CCDH.
@RobertKennedyJr /13 In several emails, the Biden Administration directly calls on Facebook and other social media companies to deplatform the "disinfo dozen,”
the name coined by the CCDH. Image
@RobertKennedyJr /14 To uncover the full extent of CCDH's pernicious influence on our gov and the way they seem to be serving as an outside (and foreign) coordinator of illegal censorship activity, we have launched a FOlA investigation, seeking to expose their influence operation in our country.
@RobertKennedyJr /15 More here: aflegal.org/america-first-…

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Feb 21
/1🚨✨🏰 VICTORY: Disney has eliminated multiple DEI programs AFL specifically targeted.

Here’s exactly what Disney changed.🧵👇 Image
/2 Last week, Disney announced it planned to eliminate numerous DEI programs, including:

➡️ Its DEI website called “Reimagine Tomorrow”

➡️ Incorporating DEI into executives’ compensation

➡️ Mandatory warnings before classic Disney cartoons

AFL called out EACH of these initiatives in complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and letters sent to Disney’s Board of Directors.
/3 DISNEY DEI CHANGES — “REIMAGINE TOMORROW”

Disney has shut down its DEI “Reimagine Tomorrow” website, cited by AFL over 30 times in our letters.

Disney’s recently filed Annual Report for 2024 removed all references to “Reimagine Tomorrow” that were included in its 2023 Annual Report and cited in AFL’s 2024 complaint and letter.

Disney also appears to have abandoned other discriminatory “[e]mployee development programs and fellowships for underrepresented talent.”Image
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Feb 19
/1🚨BREAKING — AFL has sent a letter to Apple’s CEO and Board of Directors demanding that the company end its illegal DEI programs, warning that its plan to reject a shareholder proposal to eliminate DEI poses significant legal, reputational, and financial risks. Image
/2 AFL’s letter, sent ahead of Apple’s upcoming annual shareholder meeting, calls for an immediate end to the company’s DEI programs and highlights the material risks these initiatives pose to investors and shareholders.
/3 Apple shareholders have proposed a resolution (Proposal Number 6) requesting that the company abolish its DEI “program, policies, department and goals.” Image
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Feb 16
/1🚨BREAKING — FEDERAL JUDGE McCONNELL MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY.

AFL has uncovered a major potential conflict of interest for Judge John McConnell, Chief Judge of the federal district court of Rhode Island, who halted President Trump’s temporary spending freeze.

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/2 AFL has uncovered evidence suggesting that Judge McConnell appears to be currently serving on the Board of Directors for the non-profit NGO Crossroads Rhode Island, where he was previously the Chair of the Board and is still currently listed as the Chair-Emeritus. Image
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/3 In fact, Judge McConnell has appeared as a Director on Crossroads’ IRS Form 990 every year since he took the federal bench in 2013. Image
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Feb 14
/1🚨BREAKING — New law enforcement documents reveal that Colorado officials knew the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua posed a real and present danger — but withheld the truth from the public for over a year, shielding criminal illegal aliens and endangering U.S. citizens. Image
/2 AFL has obtained Aurora Police Department records revealing that officials knew about Tren de Aragua’s presence and violent crimes but failed to disclose it to the public for more than a year — until the gang took over an apartment complex, making the threat undeniable. Image
/3 The documents show that the nonprofit “Organization Papagayo” placed Venezuelan illegal aliens in the Aurora apartments that Tren de Aragua later took over, terrorizing residents with shootings, stabbings, and extortion. Image
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Feb 13
/1 🔔 TRANS IN TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA 🔔

AFL just SUED the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and its tour partners for retaliating against a female employee who reported sexual harassment by a biological man “identifying” as a woman.

DETAILS 🧵👇 Image
/2 AFL, in partnership with @IWF and Murphy Ball Stratton LLP, filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court against:

🏢 Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO)

🏢 Night Castle Management

🏢 Wild Child Touring

🏢 Production Resource Group LLC (PRG)

🏢 Showpay LLC
@IWF /3 AFL’s lawsuit alleges TSO and the affiliated entities violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Texas labor laws. Image
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Feb 12
/1🚨BREAKING — New NARA emails further confirm that the classified documents case against President Trump was a sham prosecution that involved the Biden White House from the start — long before NARA’s official referral of classified documents to DOJ for investigation. Image
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/2 In 2023, AFL explained how a “special access request” from the Biden White House led to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.
/3 In both NARA’s response to AFL and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment against President Trump, the Biden Administration’s official position was that NARA referred the matter to DOJ for investigation in February 2022 after it received classified documents from MAL.Image
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