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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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Jun 12
/1🚨BREAKING: AFL SUES MARICOPA COUNTY TO STOP ILLEGAL ELECTION POWER GRAB🚨

Maricopa County is trying to unlawfully seize control of election operations in Arizona.

AFL just filed a lawsuit to stop this illegal election interference.

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/2 AFL filed the lawsuit against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on behalf of Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap.

The board is attempting to unlawfully seize control of election operations by refusing to give Recorder Heap the resources he needs to fulfill his statutory duty to administer elections.Image
/3 Arizona law requires the board to fully fund the recorder’s necessary expenses.

Despite this, the board recently passed a budget that permanently transfers the recorder’s key statutory duties to itself and underfunds the recorder’s office.
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/1🚨UVA’s Board of Visitors voted to dismantle its DEI infrastructure.

Instead, UVA just rebranded.

When it failed to comply, DOJ demanded proof.

So AFL investigated — and found the truth:

Same people.
Same responsibilities.
Same agenda.
New titles.

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/2 Christian West was UVA Darden’s “Senior Director of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Recruiting.”

Now he’s the “Senior Director of Global Recruitment.”

Same bio.
Leverages the same DEI “partnerships.”
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/3 Jannatul Pramanik was UVA’s “Associate Director, Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Office of Admissions.”

Now she’s “Associate Director, Global Recruitment.”

Her role didn’t change.
The discrimination didn’t disappear.
Only the label did. Image
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May 24
/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just sent a letter to DOJ exposing how the University of Virginia is disguising its discriminatory DEI infrastructure under a new lexicon of euphemisms to evade federal law.

The law is clear — and UVA is on notice.

DOJ is watching — and so are we.

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/2 On April 28, DOJ formally directed UVA to certify — “with precision and particularity” — that it had dismantled its discriminatory DEI programs to comply with federal civil rights law and President Trump’s Executive Orders.

UVA didn’t comply.

Instead, it formed a working group to “promote open inquiry” and build a “truly inclusive and welcoming community.”Image
/3 UVA has rebranded its discriminatory policies under new labels, using euphemisms like “Inclusive Excellence,” “Community Engagement,” and “Viewpoint Diversity.”

The names changed — but the substance didn’t.

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May 20
/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just moved to intervene in a major lawsuit to overturn an unlawful, decades-old, and race-based consent decree — and restore merit-based hiring in the federal government. Image
/2 For 44 years, a race-based consent decree has prohibited the federal government from using a standardized, merit-based exam to hire civil servants.

This is unconstitutional — and it must be overturned.
/3 In 1981, during the final days of the Carter Administration, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) entered into the Luevano consent decree, ending the use of a standardized written aptitude test in federal hiring.

Since then, OPM has failed to identify any test that satisfies the decree’s race-based requirements.
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May 16
🔥 Unelected judges with apparent political agendas are blocking President Trump’s policies with “nationwide injunctions.”

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Here’s how 🧵 Image
President Trump faced over 64 injunctions in his first term — more than any president in history.

Now, it’s happening again. 

This isn’t a normal judicial process — it’s a full-scale judicial power grab to thwart the results of a valid election. Image
Less than 4 months into the second Trump Administration, the judiciary has already issued over 200 orders to halt the President’s agenda — including nearly 40 nationwide injunctions.
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/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just filed a judicial complaint against Judge John McConnell, the federal judge blocking President Trump’s spending freeze.

He led a nonprofit set to gain millions from his ruling — a blatant conflict of interest and ethics violation.

He must be investigated. Image
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/3 Judge McConnell is presiding over New York v. Trump, a lawsuit brought by 21 states and D.C. challenging President Trump’s temporary freeze on federal funding.

In February, he ordered taxpayer money to continue flowing to the states, including to Crossroads Rhode Island, where he served as a board member and board chairman over a span of nearly 20 years.Image
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