1) Disney's CEO @RobertIger is a Biden campaign donor who is running a squeeze play on @elonmusk w/ Democratic attack dogs Media Matters & Center for Countering Digital Hate tinyurl.com/yckh8czb
2) If you think @Disney's Bob Iger is above political reproach, take a look at his bona fides.
He donated $250K to Biden's campaign and began angling for an administration job even before Biden had been sworn into office.
3) This last summer, Iger swore to stay out of America's "culture wars" before hiring a Biden press secretary to handle .... "culture war" messaging issues.
4) NY Magazine reports that Iger remains a critical funder for Biden's reelection.
5) As for Media Matters, the NY Times reported in 2004 the Democratic Party operative David Brock created them with the help of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party think tank and lobby shop.
6) After Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, Brock retooled Media Matters to move into the digital space and attack “misinformation.” See Brock's "privileged and confidential" memo documentcloud.org/documents/3440…
7) Media Matters has constantly attacked Musk since he bought Twitter and took away the party's censorship toy. After I released #TwitterFiles exposing Taylor Lorenz for coordinating with the old Twitter to censor @DrJBhattacharya, Media Matters leapt to downplay the documents.
8) The Center for Countering Digital Hate has a similar political background and was created by the conservative wing of the British Labour Party to attack the Left and Right.
9) The group is run by political operative Imran Ahmed who does not disclose his ties to British intelligence, nor who funds him. The chair of CCDH is Simon Clark, formerly with the Democratic Party's Center for American Progress.
10) Here's Simon Clark's bio at the Atlantic Council, which works with the Biden Administration on censoring Americans.
11) Imran Ahmed refused to disclose his donors, but I found that 75% of CCDH's money is cycled through a dark money group.
A board member is Hollywood agent Aleen Keshishian.
12. Here's Aleen's bio at USC. Note that one of her clients is actor Mark Ruffalo. I have been told that Imran Ahmed spends time in LA fundraising.
And guess which actor comes out to support him in attacks on @elonmusk?
13) Hi, @markruffalo. If you're in the audience.
14) You don't need to support Musk to be concerned that a political party--either Democrat or Republican--feels emboldened to attack corporations when the CEO doesn't donate to them or support their censorship activities. Read more at @DisInfoChron tinyurl.com/yckh8cz
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1) Trump transition team is moving to control political games and partisan manoeuvres by NIH career staff, who NIH official says are trying to "tar the new administration."
"There’s a continued lack of transparency.”
2) Trump officials are replacing Lawrence Tabak with NIH researcher Matthew J. Memoli to control the agency until the Senate confirms Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya to run the NIH. tinyurl.com/mr2p735r
3) NIH official shut down private study sections that review scientific grant approvals "to scare everyone into believing [research] studies will shut down and labs will shutter,” said an NIH official in the Director’s office.
1) This @WSJ article by @NidhiSubs & @l_e_whyte is a bit of a mess. Here's why
A. Frames concern of dangerous research as partisan
B. Falsely states "Republicans" think pandemic started in a lab.
C. Quotes researcher w/ COI
D. Misleading reporting on COVID origins
2) "The gain-of-function studies had been a staple of research into viruses, but became an object of controversy and criticism during the pandemic crisis. Republicans in Congress criticized the studies."
FALSE: Scientists have long criticised this research. This is from 2018
3) @NidhiSubs & @l_e_whyte: "Some Republicans have blamed the Covid-19 pandemic on gain-of-function research."
FALSE: A majority of Americans believe the pandemic started in a lab, including 53% of Democrats.
1) EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Working w/ @mtaibbi we report on @CCDHate documents showing the Labour Party's political front's objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter" thru "Advertising focus" meaning harass his advertisers.
See internal documents provided by a whistleblower.
2) Internal Center for Countering Digital Hate document shows their annual objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter"
This is their internal monthly planner. Their goal is to also trigger regulatory action, although they are a tax-exempt nonprofit.
3) CCDH held a private conference w/ a slew of liberal groups organizing against Musk including Biden White House, Congressman Adam Schiff's office, Biden/Harris State Department officials, Canadian MP Peter Julian & Media Matters for America
1) Twitter Files: Democrats & media claimed Twitter 1.0 was a “private company” that made its own decisions, despite Biden Administration pressure to censor.
But new emails show Twitter hired a lobby shop staffed w/ Biden loyalists & then coordinated w/ Biden State Dept.
2) “This is John Hughes from Albright Stonebridge Group, the commercial diplomacy firm founded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,” wrote Twitter’s lobbyist to a senior official at State.
Twitter was seeking “advice” and help.
3) Politico reported around this same time that 10 of Biden’s top foreign policy crowd came from Albright Stonebridge.