1) I exposed Center for Countering Digital Hate for trying to "Kill Musk's Twitter." We learn today that the British government has been funding them with taxpayer money.
Why is England funding a political front group to attack an American company?
2) Here's my report w/ @mtaibbi and the documents showing that CCDH was created by Keir Starmer's COS Morgan McSweeney, and was tasked to "Kill Musk's Twitter" tinyurl.com/4v25xenk
3) CCDH has alleged that they receive no government funds. This is a lie.
CCDH's letter to @Jim_Jordan on @JudiciaryGOP seems misleading and 1001 violation.
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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.