2. Here is a highly disturbing fact that is not widely to the American public: The same DHS cyber agency in charge of securing elections is also in charge of censoring elections.
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4. In the summer of 2020, CISA pulled off a trick. By classifying "election misinformation" as threat to "election security," its police powers extended from the tech side of elections to anyone simply *talking* about elections. pic.twitter.com/RI4f27iltH
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6. CISA "lacked the funding and the legal authorizations" to do grand-scale censorship and get away with it. So CISA partnered with EIP, who "filled the gap of the things that the government could not do themselves." pic.twitter.com/JVZ693lyBQ
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8. CISA — your federal government — is not just partnering with a few zealous individuals. The scale here is institutional. For the 2020 election alone, EIP had 120 people staffed on taking down lawful US citizen speech about an in-process US election: pic.twitter.com/8U7jtSdBNF
— Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) November 10, 2022
10. EIP relies on advanced monitoring AI to map out entire networks of people who spread a narrative they want to ban out of existence. Here you can see a walkthrough of how EIP effectively stalks every chain in an election belief to censor the whole belief system at scale: pic.twitter.com/67Bdc4myZC
— Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) November 10, 2022
12. Notice the redacted “Government partner” didn't even fully dispel the narrative being throttled for “misinformation.” They actually appear to somewhat confirm concerns about kicked-back ballots, but simply presume poll workers must have followed ideal procedures after that: pic.twitter.com/OKYkldjGxY
— Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) November 10, 2022
14. All of EIP's top targets of election censorship, during a hotly contested ongoing election, belonged to the exact same side of the political aisle.
CISA gave them absolute power to censor, so they censored absolutely: pic.twitter.com/bgxGSSF8nT
— Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) November 10, 2022
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