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Sep 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
EXCLUSIVE: The State Department, joined by the likes of the Poynter Institute, Clemson University, disinfo professor Kate Starbird, and Snopes, have secretly coordinated on a "fake news" listserv targeting conservative media, according to documents obtained by @dcexaminer 🧵1/4
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In one example, in 2021, personnel from the State Department-funded National Endowment for Democracy and Snopes founder David Mikkelson took aim at @DailyCaller — with Mikkelson trying to determine its funders. 2/4

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State's Global Engagement Center has been on this listserv despite its mandate, like NED, to focus on foreign matters. That's a problem, according to House Republicans, who want to defund the GEC.

Some of these documents were obtained by @dcexaminer through the Freedom of Information Act, and others are cited in a new report by Congress. 3/4Image
Story: Embattled State Department office violated mandate in funding ‘censorship’ groups: House GOP

washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/314…

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Sep 12
NEW: The FBI is being pressed by House Oversight Chair James Comer to promptly turn over information on a China-linked research institute that Tim Walz helped secure funding for and—as I reported at @dcexaminer —is a partner of the CCP-run Wuhan Institute of Virology. 🧵

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"Recent reports indicate Mr. Walz, while in Congress, 'helped secure over $2 million' and 'pushed for a $5 million federal earmark' for the Hormel Institute, which [has] a history of working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China," @RepJamesComer told FBI Director Christopher Wray.

"The Committee is concerned that Mr. Walz’s involvement with Chinese entities and officials may have allowed the CCP to influence his decision-making as a congressman and governor and potentially would allow the CCP to influence the White House should Mr. Walz be elected vice president," he said.Image
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Comer, who said the FBI told @GOPoversight its Foreign Influence Task Force investigates "this kind of CCP activity," cited how ex-Hormel Institute director Dr. Zigang Dong resigned in 2019 upon the FBI investigating his failure to report foreign backing when applying for grants.

1) Here's Tim Walz with Dong in 2014.

2) Here's Tim Walz's then-legislative director Tim Bertocci, now working at the Pentagon, and former deputy chief of staff Sara Severs, now chief of staff at Minnesota's Transportation Department, with Dong in 2016.Image
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Jun 17
EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s State Department is now facing a congressional subpoena for failing to turn over documents on ‘censorship-by-proxy’ funding to outside organizations, @dcexaminer has learned 🧵1/4

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The subpoena, served to State’s Global Engagement Center from House Republicans, demanded sprawling records by June 27

It’s the latest development in a House investigation launched after @dcexaminer reports on the Global Disinformation Index blacklisting conservative media. 2/4
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The subpoena comes as State’s GEC may lose funding via Congress over the $100K Global Disinformation Index grant and others lawmakers say promoted widespread censorship of disfavored speech.

@FDRLST and @realdailywire are suing GEC over the ‘disinfo’ programs 3/4

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Apr 11
SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security/its CISA had privately "recommended" the State Department contact the Election Integrity Partnership, which worked to suppress speech on social media before the 2020 presidential election, according to internal emails
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When did State Global Engagement Center reach out to EIP — which it helped flag "misinformation" posts to social media platforms?

. . . Just hours after @nypost's bombshell Hunter Biden story suppressed by Twitter, a key partner of EIP, on Oct. 14, 2020

cc @EmmaJoNYC
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The unearthed coordination between DHS/State on EIP raises further concerns to Republicans, including on @JudiciaryGOP, about why a foreign-focused agency in the GEC would ever get involved in the EIP.

The EIP worked to systemically suppress posts by Trump/other Republicans
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Apr 9
The DC Attorney General has closed its investigation into left-wing dark money kingpin Arabella Advisors, a lawyer for Arabella groups confirms to @dcexaminer

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Lawyer Timothy Parlatore for Sarah Walker, a former New Venture Fund employee suing the Arabella group over alleged racial and gender discrimination, indicated to me he thinks the investigation was prematurely closed

Walker’s case is headed to discovery, @AndrewKerrNC reported
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“The last thing you want, if you’re a truly honest, nonpartisan law enforcement officer, is to come to a hasty decision and then have a civil suit that reveals information you should have uncovered before making your decision.”


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Apr 5
Some other interesting parts of this testimony, among others . . . 🧵
Stamos said DHS' National Protection and Programs Directorate sounds "like a Soviet era spy agency."

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Stamos makes reference to the idea that localities cannot defend their election systems against state actors. Image
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Apr 2
EXCLUSIVE: DHS-tied “misinformation” researcher Kate Starbird, who recently appeared on 60 Minutes, personally advised Big Tech on content moderation — she testified behind closed doors to Congress 🧵

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Starbird then claimed to me she didn't work w/ platforms AT ALL on a DHS misinfo panel or EIP, which suppressed speech before the 2020 election

Platforms would "reach out to me . . .to help them better understand how rumors and disinformation spread online” since 2017, she said

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Reach out they did: Speaking to Congress in June, Starbird said she advised platforms “which accounts you might want to not bother” labeling — or, effectively, suppress

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technol…
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