/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⤵️
/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).
/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.
/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."
/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.”
/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…
/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.”
/11 In that report, CCDH explicitly calls for these Americans, including @RobertKennedyJr to be deplatformed.
@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.
@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.
AFL is investigating whether the Loudoun County School Board and Former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe played a role in AG Merrick Garland’s October 4 memo mobilizing federal counter-terrorism resources against concerned parents at school board meetings.
/2 In 2020, parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, began speaking out against a variety of issues, including school closures, Critical Race Theory (CRT) curriculum, transgender bathroom and locker room policies, and the politicization of the Loudoun County School Board.
/3 In March 2021, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office opened a criminal investigation into a private Facebook group called “The Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County.”
Members of the group — which included six school board members, the Commonwealth Attorney, and a member of the Board of Supervisors — discussed targeting parents who spoke out at school board meetings against school closures and CRT in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS).
Later, the FBI launched a parallel probe into the matter.
/1 🚨✈️ BREAKING: American Airlines to end illegal DEI employment practices
The U.S. Department of Labor has confirmed that American Airlines will end race and sex-based discrimination in hiring and promotions following AFL’s federal civil rights complaint.
/2 AFL filed the complaint against American with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on January 17, 2024, requesting an investigation into the airline for allegedly violating its federal contracting nondiscrimination obligations.
/3 Despite receiving over $140 million in federal contracts since 2008, American Airlines engaged in illegal race and sex-based discrimination in hiring, recruitment, and promotional processes.
AFL has obtained the academic records of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter in the first assassination attempt against President Trump on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
This thread details the records we uncovered. 🧵
📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ SAT scores
Crooks took the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) twice.
➡️ On March 13, 2021, he scored 1390.
➡️ On March 12, 2022, he scored 1530.
📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ high school transcript
Crooks’ official transcript from Bethel Park High School, dated June 20, 2022, details his academic performance from 2018 to 2022.
/1 🔎 NEW: INVESTIGATING FEMA FOR ALLEGEDLY DENYING FEDERAL HURRICANE AID TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS
AFL is launching an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) over allegations it withheld federal disaster relief from Trump supporters after recent hurricanes.
/2 On November 8, 2024, the Daily Wire reported that a FEMA official instructed government employees to “avoid homes advertising Trump” in the agency’s hurricane relief efforts.
/3 FEMA whistleblowers claim that “at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags… were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance.”
/1 🧵 AFL has led the fight to hold the Biden-Harris Admin accountable for failing to enforce civil rights laws against pro-Hamas networks in the U.S. Through lawsuits and investigations, we’ve worked to uphold the rule of law and protect Americans. Here’s how and why it matters:
/2 Since Hamas terrorists’ brutal attack on October 7, 2023, there has been a staggering increase in antisemitic incidents across the U.S., with violent attacks, harassment, and intimidation against Jewish Americans reaching unprecedented levels.
/3 “Pro-Palestinian” extremists have targeted Jewish neighborhoods, businesses, houses of worship, and students, committing acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation.
/1🚨BREAKING: MAJOR COURT VICTORY OVER SCHOOL PRONOUN & BATHROOM POLICIES
A court ruled in AFL’s lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools that FCPS' pronoun policy punishing “misgendering” & bathroom policy based on “gender identity” violate students’ constitutional rights.
/2 AFL filed a lawsuit on behalf of four students over FCPS’ compelled pronoun policy and bathroom policy, which the school says can change daily.
/3 AFL argued that FCPS’ pronoun policy constitutes compelled speech because it threatens discipline for even an accidental or non-malicious “misgendering” or “deadnaming.”