SCOOP: Billionaire Musk foe Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, bankrolls second Trump resistance under "nonpartisan" banner🧵 1/6 Some background: The New York Times and other outlets recently profiled the existence of a new Democratic governors-led Trump “resistance” group, noting its funding was unclear as it preps to coordinate state-level pushback to the incoming administration

It's called “Governors Safeguarding Democracy" 2/6

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. 🧵

"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.

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

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

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



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

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

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

The DC Attorney General has closed its investigation into left-wing dark money kingpin Arabella Advisors, a lawyer for Arabella groups confirms to @dcexaminer

But a lawyer for one ex-employee in the Arabella network has thoughts: 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

Some other interesting parts of this testimony, among others . . . 🧵

https://twitter.com/gekaminsky/status/1776241005387448429

Stamos said DHS' National Protection and Programs Directorate sounds "like a Soviet era spy agency."

cisa.gov/resources-tool…

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 🧵

@dcexaminer reviewed the transcript, which hasn't been publicly released 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

NEW: The State Department-funded Global Disinformation Index is likely violating federal law by redacting its financial disclosures exclusively mailed to @dcexaminer — despite GDI blacklisting conservative media for "opaque ownership structures" 🧵

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technol… The transparency flop comes as @FDRLST and @realDailyWire — joined by the state of Texas — sue the State Department for "one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation" over funding GDI.

Breaking: @dcexaminer obtained two emails in connection to @JudiciaryGOP's Facebook subpoena showing how the NGO Center for Countering Digital Hate quietly amassed influence in the Biden White House as an "expert" to thwart alleged COVID disinformation.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/jim… In April 2021, a FB employee emailed a "Vaccine policy" thread, citing the center's efforts to thwart alleged COVID disinfo.

They also made one admission: "We also continue to see pressure from . . . the White House" to remove parties pushing speech on vaccines deemed fake news.

NEW: Fix the Court, an Arabella Advisors-linked group demanding Supreme Court "transparency" for financial disclosures, is in complete disarray after unwittingly leaking its donors to @dcexaminer

"I just fucked up," its director Gabe Roth tells me.

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/… The group is part of a coordinated campaign targeting Clarence Thomas over his relationship with Harlan Crow.

It accidentally provided @dcexaminer with its donors after failing to file 2021 and 2022 tax forms with the IRS, we learned.

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/…

Ex-deputy director of the CIA testifies to @Jim_Jordan that he decided to sign onto a letter with intelligence officers calling the Hunter Biden laptop story “Russian disinformation” after Antony Blinken called him.

“Because I wanted [Biden] to win the election,” he said Nothing to see here — just a presidential campaign seemingly setting into motion a widely influential intelligence letter used to allege that NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story was disinformation — leading to Twitter engaging in mass content moderation.

Breaking News in Disinformation Inc. World

Oracle is officially severing its relationship with the State Department-funded Global Disinformation Index, which has been secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets, @dcexaminer exclusively confirms.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/oracle-en… "After conducting a review, we agree with others in the advertising industry that the services we provide marketers must be in full support of free speech, which is why we are ending our relationship with GDI," said Oracle's Michael Egbert.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/oracle-en…

SCOOP: The Global Disinformation Index is refusing to disclose basic info about its operations, like board members, in a move that tax experts warn raise huge legal and ethical red flags

GDI's nonprofits allege harassment. Read here for the full story

washingtonexaminer.com/news/disinform… The private AN Foundation, also known Disinformation Index Foundation, and its affiliated public charity, Disinformation Index Inc., provided @dcexaminer with copies of their 2021 IRS tax returns.

The forms are heavily redacted in a way that lawyers say appears unprecedented.

BREAKING: Starting in 2011, the FBI secretly coordinated without congressional approval alongside hospitals to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, use or buy firearms, according to a trove of internal documents obtained by @dcexaminer

washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer… The docs, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, show how medical centers in New Hampshire, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma, used the gun forms and supplied signatory records to the FBI.

The New Hampshire Hospital is state-funded.

NEW: Top virologists who initially flirted with the COVID-19 lab leak theory, but reversed course, oversaw projects that have received $25 Million from Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIH, according to government records reviewed by @dcexaminer

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthc… The Scripps Institute's Kristian Andersen + Tulane University's Robert Garry raised concerns in 2020 to Fauci that COVID may've come from a lab

The virologists, who changed their tune, have evidently been rewarded. Here's a snapshot of grants NIH gave them between 2020 / 2022

NEW: The State Dept-backed Global Disinformation Index teamed up with U-Washington in 2020, the same year GDI casted doubt on the COVID lab leak theory, for a project aimed at stopping the spread of alleged "disinformation" on tens of thousands of sites

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technol… The project, which has not been reported on, was through Washington's eScience Institute

That same institute and linked University of Washington entities have received tax dollars via the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and NASA

NEW: The Global Disinformation Index repeatedly pressured ad companies to financially punish conservative sites boosting the lab leak theory — which the Energy Department now deems the most likely cause of COVID-19 . . . 🧵

washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer… In February 2020, GDI published a report dubbed "Coronavirus: The makings of a disinformation pandemic?" that slammed @SenTomCotton for flirting with the lab leak theory on Fox News.

It was a "disinformation tactic," they said.

Breaking: The National Endowment for Democracy, a State Department-backed group, will NO LONGER bankroll the Global Disinformation Index (blacklisting conservative websites) following multiple @dcexaminer Disinformation Inc reports.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/disinform… "We have strict policies and practices in place so that NED and the work we fund remains internationally focused, ensuring the Endowment does not become involved in domestic politics," an NED spokeswoman told me.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/disinform…

NEW, Disinformation Inc: The State Department-backed National Endowment for Democracy granted over $315K in 2021 to the Global Disinformation Index, which is secretly blacklisting conservative news.

washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer… @dcexaminer had reported Thursday that the NED, which received $300 million in taxpayer dollars in 2021, granted $230,000 in 2020 to the Global Disinformation Index's U.S. nonprofit group.

washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

NEW: Following multiple @dcexaminer “Disinformation Inc” reports, Microsoft has removed conservative websites from its blacklist amid an internal investigation, according to internal data and whistleblowers

It’s unclear if this is permanent.

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technol… The impact of this, of course, could be major. While the conservative outlets do not have an “approved” label in Xandr’s database, they no longer are being flagged as “false/misleading.”

@townhallcom as of this writing ie no longer flagged as “reprehensible/offensive”