{"id":152004,"date":"2022-12-29T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152004"},"modified":"2022-12-29T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:46:27","slug":"152004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152004","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Now Here&#8217;s How They Really Did It&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8230; So Most Voters Would Not Even<br \/>\nKnow So Many 2020 &amp; 2022 Elections Were Stealthily Rigged And Stolen<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152093\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stolen2020_1600x-1024x353.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stolen2020_1600x-1024x353.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stolen2020_1600x-300x104.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stolen2020_1600x-768x265.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stolen2020_1600x-1536x530.webp 1536w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stolen2020_1600x.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>CISAgate:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s how a criminal network of<br \/>\nPublic-Private Partnerships has literally institutionalized election theft<br \/>\nacross the USA.<\/span><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152004\">SOTN<\/a> Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> A Khazarian-created RICO-level criminal enterprise has been formed to rig and fix, hijack and steal any and all elections held in these once United States of America.\u00a0 And the two biggest criminals are the utterly corrupt duo U.S. Federal Government &amp; <em>Big Tech<\/em>, which are both partnering with their insidious NGO accomplices.<\/h3>\n<h3>The following expos\u00e9 presents what is perhaps the best Public-Private Partnership investigation of the highly complex and convoluted criminal conspiracy known as the <strong>&#8220;2020 POTUS Election Theft&#8221;<\/strong>.\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s of paramount importance to understand that this same RICO-level crime syndicate was used to steal countless elections at every level &#8212; federal, state, county and city &#8212; during both the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.\u00a0 While everyone was focused solely on Donald Trump in 2020, as they are on Kari Lake in 2022, the Democrat perps got away with stealing untold elections in all 50 states.<\/h3>\n<h3>Going forward, the Khazarian-directed election thieves now have the institutional apparatus firmly in place to steal any and all future elections held on American soil.\u00a0 Which means that there will never be another free and fair election for any public office in the land.\u00a0 Oh, and by the way, the U.S. Federal Government and their NGO co-conspirators are using your hard-earned tax dollars to fund this massive criminal operation which will ensure that your conservative candidate LOSES every Election Day.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152004\">State of the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nDecember 29, 2022<\/h3>\n<h3>N.B. The hard proof confirming the existence of a highly organized election theft crime syndicate, which is provided in the scathing indictment that follows, is absolutely irrefutable.\u00a0 <em><strong>How so?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Because all of the identified criminals featured below have been caught in the act.\u00a0 According to their own words and deeds they are essentially dead to rights.\u00a0 To wit, these self-incriminated election thieves have already indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced themselves for treason committed against the American Republic.\u00a0 You gotta love it!!!\u00a0 Therefore, please post, tweet and send this verdict out&#8212;EVERYWHERE!<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><strong>Elon Musk slams CISA censorship<br \/>\nnetwork as &#8216;propaganda platform&#8217;<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>This DHS-backed censorship network used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Posted by KanekoaTheGreat<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, recently made a bold move by releasing the Twitter Files, which detail how the social media platform coordinated with federal law enforcement to silence voices that didn\u2019t align with the company\u2019s far-left agenda.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s been missing from much of this analysis is the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) role in this censorship through a consortium called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), made up of four organizations: the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the University of Washington\u2019s Center for an Informed Public, the Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika, a social media analytics company.<\/p>\n<p>The EIP published a report on its censorship of the 2020 election, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf\" rel=\"\">The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election<\/a><\/em>, which describes how the private-public censorship consortium was formed in the summer of 2020 to \u201cmonitor and correct election mis- and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This censorship network partnered with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center (GEC), and the DHS-backed Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) during the 2020 election cycle and operated as technocratic thought police forwarding tickets of &#8220;mis- and disinformation&#8221; to social media companies.<\/p>\n<p>The EIP built communication portals with Big Tech platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, TikTok, Reddit, and Discord; and liberal groups NAACP, Common Cause, the Democratic National Committee, and Harvard&#8217;s Defending Digital Democracy Project, cofounded by former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, throughout the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, to censor domestic \u201cmis- and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They had about 120 analysts monitoring social media for 20 hours a day, forwarding tickets of misinformation to be censored, and this censorship pivoted to covid vaccines when they started the Virality Project in Feb. 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152006\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3ec4a506-ef79-4ebb-b088-e0e1f43b4c7a_1670x932-1024x572.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3ec4a506-ef79-4ebb-b088-e0e1f43b4c7a_1670x932-1024x572.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3ec4a506-ef79-4ebb-b088-e0e1f43b4c7a_1670x932-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3ec4a506-ef79-4ebb-b088-e0e1f43b4c7a_1670x932-768x429.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3ec4a506-ef79-4ebb-b088-e0e1f43b4c7a_1670x932.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf\" rel=\"\">The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>A report from the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), a non-profit founded by Mike Benz, entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" rel=\"\">DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On \u2018Red Mirage, Blue Shift\u2019 Election Events<\/a><\/em> details this government speech control machine and its ability to control the narrative during the 2020 election:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on our investigation, below are seven bottom-line figures summarizing the scope of censorship carried out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yNe4MJ351wU\" rel=\"\">DHS speech control partners<\/a>, as compiled from their own reports and videos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=201\" rel=\"\">22 Million<\/a> tweets labeled \u201cmisinformation\u201d on Twitter;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=201\" rel=\"\">859 Million<\/a> tweets collected in databases for \u201cmisinformation\u201d analysis;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1kopht-eip-120-people-huge-teams-behind-each-of-us.html\" rel=\"\">120 analysts<\/a> monitoring social media \u201cmisinformation\u201d in up to<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=28\" rel=\"\"> 20-hour<\/a> shifts;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=283\" rel=\"\">15<\/a> tech platforms monitored for \u201cmisinformation\u201d often in real-time;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=57\" rel=\"\">&lt;1 hour<\/a> average response time between government partners and tech platforms;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=65\" rel=\"\">Dozens<\/a> of \u201cmisinformation narratives\u201d targeted for platform-wide throttling; and<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets impacted, due to \u201cmisinformation\u201d Terms of Service policy changes that DHS partners<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1lzhvy-eip-bragging-that-they-pushed-the-envelope-on-censorship-policies-threat-of.html\" rel=\"\"> openly plotted and bragged<\/a> tech companies would never have done without DHS partner insistence and \u201chuge regulatory pressure\u201d from government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In short, CISA outsourced censorship to a web of like-minded private sector and civil society partners to circumvent unclear legal authorities and violations of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in 2018, CISA\u2019s stated mission was to protect America from cybersecurity threats from hostile foreign countries, but that mission was quickly and quietly corrupted when the branch of DHS designated foreign and then domestic disinformation as attacks on critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne could argue we\u2019re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,\u201d Jen Easterly, Biden\u2019s CISA said.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, any US citizen spreading what the government deemed \u201cmisinformation or disinformation\u201d was now carrying out a cyber attack on critical US infrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. But CISA had a problem. It&#39;s called the First Amendment. The US government is not allowed to sandblast millions of voters off the civilian Internet because of their speech about elections.<\/p>\n<p>CISA needed private sector partners to do dirty work. And that&#39;s where EIP stepped in: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RPNzH85M1L\">pic.twitter.com\/RPNzH85M1L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFO_Freedom\/status\/1590549196696092672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6. CISA &quot;lacked the funding and the legal authorizations&quot; to do grand-scale censorship and get away with it. So CISA partnered with EIP, who &quot;filled the gap of the things that the government could not do themselves.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JVZ693lyBQ\">pic.twitter.com\/JVZ693lyBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFO_Freedom\/status\/1590551208132956160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This leftist establishment-aligned censorship consortium flagged then-President Donald Trump, the highest elected official in the US government, as one of its top \u201cmis- and disinformation\u201d spreaders.<\/p>\n<p>The EIP also targeted news outlets, including Breitbart News, Fox News, Just The News, the\u00a0New York Post<em>,\u00a0<\/em>and the Epoch Times, as well as the social media accounts of prominent conservatives James Woods, Charlie Kirk, Tom Fitton, Jack Posobiec, James O\u2019Keefe, and the President\u2019s sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Every single &#8220;repeat spreader of election misinformation&#8221; cited in the EIP\u2019s report was aligned with the political right:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152007\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a590242a-c806-4108-860b-c3a1efde1240_1291x1007-1024x799.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a590242a-c806-4108-860b-c3a1efde1240_1291x1007-1024x799.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a590242a-c806-4108-860b-c3a1efde1240_1291x1007-300x234.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a590242a-c806-4108-860b-c3a1efde1240_1291x1007-768x599.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a590242a-c806-4108-860b-c3a1efde1240_1291x1007.webp 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf\" rel=\"\">The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cThe channels found to be repeat spreaders of false and misleading narratives through YouTube look similar to the repeat spreaders on Twitter\u2014right-wing influencers, hyperpartisan media outlets such as One America News Network (OANN) and The Gateway Pundit, political groups supportive of President Trump such as Project Veritas, and President Trump himself,\u201d the EIP authors <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf\" rel=\"\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This speech control network also flagged popular populist-right YouTube channels, including Steven Crowder, BlazeTV, Judicial Watch, CDMedia, and even the GOP War Room, as \u201cmis- and disinformation\u201d spreaders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152009\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/faddbf32-81f7-4bd8-9ece-e37ecd8e5e6c_922x509.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/faddbf32-81f7-4bd8-9ece-e37ecd8e5e6c_922x509.webp 922w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/faddbf32-81f7-4bd8-9ece-e37ecd8e5e6c_922x509-300x166.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/faddbf32-81f7-4bd8-9ece-e37ecd8e5e6c_922x509-768x424.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf\" rel=\"\">The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cThe entire countering Russian disinformation on social media apparatus that had been constructed before July 2019 to censor, throttle and identify foreign disinformation was quietly, but entirely, pivoted to focus inward on domestic disinformation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" rel=\"\">said Mike Benz<\/a>, the founder of Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDHS insiders&#8217; collective justification, without uttering a peep about the switch&#8217;s revolutionary implications, was that \u201cdomestic disinformation\u201d was now a greater \u201ccyber threat to elections\u201d than falsehoods flowing from foreign interference,\u201d Benz continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo CISA&#8217;s self-invented censorship powers against \u201cforeign disinformation\u201d went from being pointed outward against supposed Russian bot accounts to being pointed inwards at tens of millions of US citizens simply talking lawfully about their elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main character in the CISA side of this story is its then-director, Chris Krebs,\u201d Benz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" rel=\"\">explained.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Benz\u2019s foundation illustrates this swap through a supercut of DHS censorship network partners switching from a \u201cforeign\u201d to a \u201cdomestic\u201d predicate for censorship between the 2016 election and the 2020 election:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. DHS was not authorized to do this. It was tasked with countering &quot;foreign&quot; disinformation, then quietly pulled off a &quot;foreign to domestic switcheroo&quot; in the run-up to the 2020 election: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZsYR4EUyi8\">pic.twitter.com\/ZsYR4EUyi8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFO_Freedom\/status\/1564066676412485633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: Chris Krebs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_152012\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152012\" class=\"wp-image-152012 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/30653187-e4dd-4b4f-a502-dfee011dcbc1_1240x698-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/30653187-e4dd-4b4f-a502-dfee011dcbc1_1240x698-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/30653187-e4dd-4b4f-a502-dfee011dcbc1_1240x698-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/30653187-e4dd-4b4f-a502-dfee011dcbc1_1240x698-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/30653187-e4dd-4b4f-a502-dfee011dcbc1_1240x698.webp 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-152012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Krebs gives a speech at CISA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To better understand the intent of this government censorship operation, the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) report lists examples of Chris Krebs\u2019 political bias coupled with his affinity for domestic speech control:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Krebs said in April 2022 that<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1kp4d9-chris-krebs-hunter-biden-laptop-looked-like-russian-disinfo-news-media-corr.html\" rel=\"\"> the Hunter Biden laptop still looked like Russian disinformation<\/a> and that Krebs didn&#8217;t care whether it was or wasn&#8217;t Russian disinformation; the important positive thing, he stressed, was that news media did not cover the laptop during the 2020 election cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Krebs, who administered the federal side of the 2020 election after DHS effectively nationalized election infrastructure on January 6, 2017, said that every lawyer who represented conservative clients on claims concerning 2020 election irregularities should be<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1kp4tx-chris-krebs-state-bar-associations-should-revoke-law-license-of-election-fr.html\" rel=\"\"> permanently disbarred and banned from legal practice for life<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Krebs said he hopes<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1kp801-chris-krebs-hopes-dominion-bankrupts-all-news-outlets-who-questioned-voting.html\" rel=\"\"> conservative media outlets are bankrupted and forced to pay billions in damages<\/a> in the ongoing lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems. He stressed the same fate should apply to anyone in the news media who questioned US voting machines during the 2020 election, which he helped administer.<\/li>\n<li>Krebs said he personally canceled his DirecTV subscription<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1kp603-chris-krebs-boycotted-directtv-because-they-gave-a-platform-to-oann-on-cabl.html\" rel=\"\"> in protest of conservative-leaning OANN having been allowed to have a platform<\/a> on cable.<\/li>\n<li>Krebs said that the sitting President in 2020, Donald Trump, was a<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZDC8qSj2ITE?t=103\" rel=\"\"> national security threat<\/a> because he espoused domestic \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Krebs said he feels<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i3eF99LKSd8?t=21\" rel=\"\"> equally passionate about the need to censor critics of government Covid-19 protocols<\/a> as he does about censoring critics of government election administration issues.<\/li>\n<li>Krebs has repeatedly said on record that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\/2021\/12\/03\/why-domestic-misinformation-is-americas-greatest-election-security-threat\" rel=\"\"> \u201cmisinformation\u201d is the single biggest threat<\/a> to election security. Note that Kreb&#8217;s role in government was not supposed to be as arbiter of truth; he was supposed to be a cybersecurity expert from Microsoft. Yet US domestic citizen opinions on social media became, in Kreb&#8217;s estimate, the top \u201ccyber\u201d security threat facing the US, replacing foreign hacking and malware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn total, the National Science Foundation (NSF) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-22-22.html\" rel=\"\">spent $38.8 million on government grants and contracts<\/a> to combat \u201cmisinformation\u201d since the start of the Biden administration,\u201d according to the Foundation for Freedom Online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c64 NSF grants totaling $31.8 million were given to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-22-22.html\" rel=\"\">42 colleges and universities<\/a> to research the science of stopping viral ideas,\u201d Mike Benz said. \u201cSome grants explicitly target \u201cpopulist politicians\u201d and \u201cpopulist communications\u201d to scientifically determine how best to counter populist narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEIP uses a system where each misinformation incident is classified as part of a specific larger misinformation narrative,\u201d Benz continued. \u201cEIP then turns around and pressures social media representatives to censor entire narratives at scale by using the network maps and narrative analysis that the EIP compiles and shares with social media companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krebs and the EIP\u2019s decision to completely censor the narrative around voting machine vulnerabilities fails to acknowledge that congressional members aligned with the left, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Ron Wyden, and Sen. Kamala Harris, among numerous computer science professors and election security experts, spent the last 4-years warning the American people that computerized voting systems are often connected to the internet, compromised, and vulnerable to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, the left was allowed to discuss the vulnerabilties of voting machines after the 2016 election and the right was censored for discussing those very same vulnerabilities after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats sound like based pillow merchant (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realMikeLindell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realMikeLindell<\/a>)! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpPdi7P4kT\">pic.twitter.com\/vpPdi7P4kT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1603920748266934273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The EIP created four categories of \u201cmis- and disinformation\u201d to target; fraud, procedural interference, participation interference, and delegitimization.<\/p>\n<p>Delegitimization, the category most censored, accounted for <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=27\" rel=\"\">72% of the EIP&#8217;s censorship tickets<\/a> and targeted<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=203\" rel=\"\"> over 99%<\/a> of the post throttled by narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because the EIP-rigged definition of \u201cdelegitimization\u201d \u2013 defined to mean any speech that \u201ccasts doubt\u201d on any kind of election process, outcome, or integrity issues \u2014 made all conservative and populist criticism of the administration of the election <em><strong>pre-banned at the narrative level<\/strong><\/em>, five months in advance of Election Day,\u201d Benz explained.<\/p>\n<p>In a twist of fate, those most responsible for delegitimizing the 2016 election would go on to silence their political opponents from questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gall to mass censor \u201cdelegitimization,\u201d coming from this crowd, is truly something to behold. The entire EIP network consisted of <em><strong>professional delegitimizers<\/strong><\/em> of the 2016 election who dedicated their entire careers to promoting the (unsubstantiated) theory that Russia had stolen the 2016 election,\u201d Benz continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex Stamos, Renee DiResta, Kate Starbird, the entire Graphika team, and the DFR lab<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1gx8h7-dhss-foreign-to-domestic-disinformation-switcheroo.html\" rel=\"\"> were all personally<\/a> the foremost tips of the spears that created a narrative that the sitting United States President from 2016-2020 was functionally \u201cillegitimate\u201d because of unfounded rumors about Russiagate that turned out later not to be true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In yet another display of the EIP\u2019s political bias, this government-backed censorship network sided with the left six months before the 2020 election and mass-censored any delegitimization of vote-by-mail as misinformation and disinformation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DNC Chairman Tom Perez is urging states to adopt vote-by-mail, no-excuse absentee voting and expanded polling place hours to prevent more delays in the primary calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1YxqnROt29\">https:\/\/t.co\/1YxqnROt29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1240045842561720320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every voter must have the opportunity to vote by mail this year. <\/p>\n<p>Senators <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonWyden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonWyden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amyklobuchar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amyklobuchar<\/a> have a bill to get it done, and you can call your senators right now at (202) 224-3121 to urge them to support it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ACURsoNrE\">https:\/\/t.co\/9ACURsoNrE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/1240697412164829184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vote-by-mail is essential to protecting the future of our democracy as we confront this public health crisis. There is no legitimate argument against enacting it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LSSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LSSC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WPgOgIivK0\">pic.twitter.com\/WPgOgIivK0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1246203557772230659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152016\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bdc7d627-d25a-4ecc-a6b6-fdf4d913f719_974x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bdc7d627-d25a-4ecc-a6b6-fdf4d913f719_974x676.jpg 974w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bdc7d627-d25a-4ecc-a6b6-fdf4d913f719_974x676-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bdc7d627-d25a-4ecc-a6b6-fdf4d913f719_974x676-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152018\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/5e004c8a-240b-4a49-9fe0-cd3480764867_800x546.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/5e004c8a-240b-4a49-9fe0-cd3480764867_800x546.webp 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/5e004c8a-240b-4a49-9fe0-cd3480764867_800x546-300x205.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/5e004c8a-240b-4a49-9fe0-cd3480764867_800x546-768x524.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152017\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/b6180d95-a9e9-4f1a-a494-79a52bb952aa_930x660.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/b6180d95-a9e9-4f1a-a494-79a52bb952aa_930x660.webp 930w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/b6180d95-a9e9-4f1a-a494-79a52bb952aa_930x660-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/b6180d95-a9e9-4f1a-a494-79a52bb952aa_930x660-768x545.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The EIP aligned with one party\u2019s candidate when the censorship network targeted speech casting doubt on mail-in ballots as \u201cmis- and disinformation\u201d despite evidence that mail-in ballots are not as secure as in-person voting.<\/p>\n<p>The 2005 bipartisan Federal Election Reform Commission report chaired by former President Jimmy Carter concluded, &#8220;Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, previous examples of mail-in ballot fraud caused the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/kanekoa.substack.com\/p\/2000-mules-exposing-the-ballot-traffickers\" rel=\"\">to write<\/a>in 2012, &#8220;all the evidence of stolen elections involves absentee ballots,&#8221; and Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/kanekoa.substack.com\/p\/2000-mules-exposing-the-ballot-traffickers\" rel=\"\">to write<\/a> in 2016, &#8220;the only voting fraud schemes with the potential to actually swing elections involved mail-in ballots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, 74 percent of nations <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3666259\" rel=\"\">ban<\/a> mail-in ballots for citizens living inside their country. Brazil, Russia, Israel, Mexico, and a host of additional developed nations have also <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3666259\" rel=\"\">banned<\/a> mail-in voting due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152019\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57f6f4e4-61b0-4d9a-8fb8-b694281ec64b_725x497.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57f6f4e4-61b0-4d9a-8fb8-b694281ec64b_725x497.webp 725w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57f6f4e4-61b0-4d9a-8fb8-b694281ec64b_725x497-300x206.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of your opinion on voting machines or mail-in voting, it\u2019s clear that this public-private censorship network conspired with big tech and big government to censor one side of the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>In a further shocking example of mission creep, the security state\u2019s censorship by proxy operation expanded from its original focus on elections to include covid-19 vaccine mis- and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>In Feb. 2021, the Virality Project was launched, a collaboration between the four EIP partners that added the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC)\u2019s Algorithmic Transparency Institute, New York University\u2019s Center for Social Media and Politics, and Tandon School of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Their collaboration culminated in a Feb. 2022 report,<em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.fsi.stanford.edu\/io\/news\/virality-project-final-report\" rel=\"\">Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines<\/a><\/strong>, <\/em>detailing how the censorship network tracked, documented, and censored alleged vaccine mis- and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Virality Project partnered with federal government agencies, most notably the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services, and the CDC, public health partners such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Facebook (including Instagram), Twitter, Google (including YouTube), TikTok, Medium, and Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152020\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/601e9a98-30ea-4ddb-ae42-93f4c6c7e9a2_1900x822-1024x443.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/601e9a98-30ea-4ddb-ae42-93f4c6c7e9a2_1900x822-1024x443.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/601e9a98-30ea-4ddb-ae42-93f4c6c7e9a2_1900x822-300x130.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/601e9a98-30ea-4ddb-ae42-93f4c6c7e9a2_1900x822-768x332.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/601e9a98-30ea-4ddb-ae42-93f4c6c7e9a2_1900x822.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Workflow of the Virality Project. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:mx395xj8490\/Virality_project_final_report.pdf\" rel=\"\">Virality Project<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Their analysts monitored \u201ckeyword-based queries and cluster-based community lists of key public figures and influencers\u201d on all of the Big Tech platforms and alternative platforms, such as Gab, Parler, Telegram, Rumble, and Gettr.<\/p>\n<p>They censored reports of post-vaccination deaths and injuries, arguments against vaccine mandates or passports, anything that questioned the safety, efficacy, or necessity of vaccines, and even what they considered conspiracy theories such as pharmaceutical industry profit was the motivation behind the vaccine campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The report lists so-called anti-vaccine influencers, pseudomedical influencers, medical freedom influencers, right-leaning political influencers, and conspiracy theory influencers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Del Bigtree, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Judy Mikovits, US. Joseph Mercola, Alex Berenson, Erin Elizabeth, Naomi Wolf, Michael Yeadon, Tucker Carlson, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Dr. Simone Gold, Dr. Dolores Cahill, Dr. Stella Immanuel, Candace Owens, Sen. Ron Johnson, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Virality Project authors censored entire narratives based on debatably false premises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe idea that natural immunity from infection is superior to immunity from vaccination became a political talking point raised repeatedly by right-leaning political influencers, despite inconclusive scientific evidence.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Maddie de Garay, a 12-year-old girl in the Pfizer children\u2019s vaccine trial, went from being healthy to paralyzed in a wheelchair and eating from a feeding tube 12 hours after her second dose was not injured by the Pfizer vaccine.<\/li>\n<li>The covid-19 response, which denied early treatment to patients, and the subsequent vaccine rollout were not \u201cstate-imposed oppression designed to enrich pharmaceutical companies and erode American freedoms.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There are no warning signs about these mRNA vaccines in VAERS, and from other injury databases outside the United States, such as the UK\u2019s Yellow Card reporting site, EudraVigilance (used in the European Economic Area), and the World Health Organization\u2019s VigiAccess.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So who are these unelected bureaucrats who get to play &#8216;judge, jury, and executioner&#8217; and control the thoughts of millions of Americans?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>Stanford Internet Observatory: Alex Stamos<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152022\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/29f47968-b201-4060-9ee3-b1c4bc53fefd_1200x800-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/29f47968-b201-4060-9ee3-b1c4bc53fefd_1200x800-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/29f47968-b201-4060-9ee3-b1c4bc53fefd_1200x800-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/29f47968-b201-4060-9ee3-b1c4bc53fefd_1200x800-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/29f47968-b201-4060-9ee3-b1c4bc53fefd_1200x800.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2019\/5\/24\/18637823\/alex-stamos-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ceo-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-interview-collision-conference\" rel=\"\">Alex Stamos<\/a> speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on May 21, 2019.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>After being fired by President Trump, Krebs started a private consulting firm with former Facebook executive Alex Stamos.<\/p>\n<p>Stamos is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Aspen Institute\u2019s Cyber Security Task Force, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), and the founder of the EIP censorship network Krebs established while at CISA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore<a href=\"https:\/\/fsi.stanford.edu\/news\/225m-funding-national-science-foundation-help-support-mis-and-disinformation\" rel=\"\"> receiving a $3 million<\/a> government grant from the Biden Administration in 2021 after censoring the Biden Administration&#8217;s political opposition in 2020, SIO was<a href=\"https:\/\/fsi.stanford.edu\/news\/stanford-internet-observatory-seeks-detect-internet-abuse-real-time\" rel=\"\">originally funded<\/a> by private foundations such as Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Omidyar Network, and the Charles Koch Foundation,\u201d Mike Benz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" rel=\"\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stamos momentarily dropped the veil of nonpartisanship when he compared \u201cover half of the Republicans in Congress\u201d to the terrorist network ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>The unelected CISA censorship czar called on Verizon, AT&amp;T, and Comcast to block OANN and Newsmax from their airwaves and discussed other potential ways to limit the reach of \u201cconservative influencers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences,\u201d Stamos told CNN\u2019s, Brian Stelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN, and they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex Stamos Compares Republicans To ISIS And Says Censor Conservative Influencers, OANN, &amp; Newsmax\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i0Vwp8awJV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>University of Washington\u2019s Center for an Informed Public: Kate Starbird<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152023\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9aeb4d31-00c9-42cf-abed-ca2c8308d0ff_1192x795-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9aeb4d31-00c9-42cf-abed-ca2c8308d0ff_1192x795-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9aeb4d31-00c9-42cf-abed-ca2c8308d0ff_1192x795-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9aeb4d31-00c9-42cf-abed-ca2c8308d0ff_1192x795-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9aeb4d31-00c9-42cf-abed-ca2c8308d0ff_1192x795.webp 1192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cip.uw.edu\/2020\/03\/09\/cips-kate-starbird-reflects-on-sense-making-in-a-crisis\/\" rel=\"\">Kate Starbird<\/a> on the University of Washington\u2019s campus.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kate Starbird is the head of CISA\u2019s \u201cdisinformation\u201d advisor subcommittee and the University of Washington\u2019s Center for an Informed Public director.<\/p>\n<p>US government grants have funded her work on domestic censorship since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian propaganda (with an assist from Bannon and alt-right media) has become the President of the United States\u2019 ideology,\u201d Kate Starbird <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181027075739\/twitter.com\/katestarbird\" rel=\"\">wrote<\/a> in a 2018 Twitter post. \u201cAnd he\u2019s spreading it to his masses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, Starbird told her Facebook followers to vote Democrat to \u201cbegin to hold this President and his friends\/family accountable for things like corruption and collusion; that it will help stop his racist, anti-LGBT agenda from adding to the damage already done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starbird claimed that the then-president\u2019s \u201cnationalism\u201d didn\u2019t stand for \u201cpatriotism\u201d but instead stood for \u201cwhite supremacy and ethno-nationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we cannot stop it [fascism and white nationalism] here, it won\u2019t be stopped,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are facing a wholly different kind of threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152026\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e3d45b8b-86d8-4581-bd12-4d3d1ca567f9_1004x1553-1-662x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e3d45b8b-86d8-4581-bd12-4d3d1ca567f9_1004x1553-1-662x1024.png 662w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e3d45b8b-86d8-4581-bd12-4d3d1ca567f9_1004x1553-1-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e3d45b8b-86d8-4581-bd12-4d3d1ca567f9_1004x1553-1-768x1188.png 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e3d45b8b-86d8-4581-bd12-4d3d1ca567f9_1004x1553-1-993x1536.png 993w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e3d45b8b-86d8-4581-bd12-4d3d1ca567f9_1004x1553-1.png 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarbird sits on CISA&#8217;s disinformation advisory panel directly with Vijaya Gadde, the recently fired top lawyer at Twitter who famously<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AwIYHwbojQo\" rel=\"\"> promoted censorship of the hashtag \u201c#LearnToCode\u201d<\/a> on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast in March 2019,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ak1SKvXfQPs\" rel=\"\"> led the internal Twitter decision<\/a> to ban President Trump&#8217;s Twitter account in January 2021, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/news\/elon-musk-takes-a-shot-at-twitter-legal-head-vijaya-gadde-over-a-censorship-issue-1263458\/\" rel=\"\"> vociferously opposed<\/a> Elon Musk&#8217;s proposal to roll back Twitter censorship policies,\u201d Mike Benz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration provided Kate Starbird&#8217;s UW disinformation lab with a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cip.uw.edu\/2021\/08\/15\/national-science-foundation-uw-cip-misinformation-rapid-response-research\/\" rel=\"\"> $3 million government grant<\/a> (jointly with Stanford) just months after Starbird&#8217;s lab helped censor the Biden Administration&#8217;s political adversary during the 2020 election,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152027\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/297571c1-230d-48de-b149-7badbb57405c_1057x1123-964x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/297571c1-230d-48de-b149-7badbb57405c_1057x1123-964x1024.webp 964w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/297571c1-230d-48de-b149-7badbb57405c_1057x1123-282x300.webp 282w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/297571c1-230d-48de-b149-7badbb57405c_1057x1123-768x816.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/297571c1-230d-48de-b149-7badbb57405c_1057x1123.webp 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>Kate Starbird is the chair of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Subcommittee on \u201cProtecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation\u201d that disUSaced Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde is a member of Alex Stamos is a member of another CISA Subcommittee on \u201cCyber Hygiene.\u201d Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/CSAC_Factsheet_5-19-22_508c.pdf\" rel=\"\">CISA<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn late 2016, our research began to see connections between conspiracy theorizing, state-sponsored disinformation (specifically from Russia), and content criticizing globalism and advocating for nationalism,\u201d Starbird claimed in another Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see this ideology move from fringe to mainstream, with the help of alt-right media and active disinformation campaigns (both foreign and domestic), is truly frightening,\u201d Starbird concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Starbird, a liberal university professor, insulated from working-class Americans, wrote off criticism of \u201cglobalism\u201d as \u201cstate-sponsored disinformation (specifically from Russia).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, many American citizens who advocate against global governance are upset with the discredited neoconservative and neoliberal political establishment that lied the populace into decades of endless wars, disastrous international trade agreements like NAFTA and WTO, which closed down 70,000 factories and destroyed the US manufacturing base, and a ruling class that is willing to send $100 billion to defend Ukraine\u2019s border while refusing to spend $5 billion to secure the US border.<\/p>\n<p>Starbird, as a member of the managerial class, is tasked with intellectualizing elaborate ways to justify censoring populist criticism of the corrupt political establishment, failed institutions, and disastrous policy decisions that have stagnated working-class incomes since the 1970s, created the greatest wealth inequality since the 1930s, and led to record inflation, supply chain shortages, and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152028\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/13ec9a4e-3171-490f-852b-b18b4517fc0b_1006x1460-706x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/13ec9a4e-3171-490f-852b-b18b4517fc0b_1006x1460-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/13ec9a4e-3171-490f-852b-b18b4517fc0b_1006x1460-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/13ec9a4e-3171-490f-852b-b18b4517fc0b_1006x1460-768x1115.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/13ec9a4e-3171-490f-852b-b18b4517fc0b_1006x1460.jpg 1006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab: Graham Brookie<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152029\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db8ecb75-c018-4303-b178-9bb6c335ce5c_1600x882-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db8ecb75-c018-4303-b178-9bb6c335ce5c_1600x882-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db8ecb75-c018-4303-b178-9bb6c335ce5c_1600x882-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db8ecb75-c018-4303-b178-9bb6c335ce5c_1600x882-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db8ecb75-c018-4303-b178-9bb6c335ce5c_1600x882-1536x847.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db8ecb75-c018-4303-b178-9bb6c335ce5c_1600x882.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Graham Brookie speaks at an Atlantic Council conference in 2019.<\/h4>\n<p>Graham Brookie is the figure who led the Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab and a previous Obama White House National Security Council member.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Council is a NATO think-tank that boasts \u201cseven living CIA directors &#8211; Michael Hayden, James Woolsey, Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, Michael Morrell, William Webster &amp; Robert Gates &#8211; on the board of the group deputized by DHS to censor your opinions about mail-in ballots during the 2020 election cycle,\u201d Mike Benz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1605704258854088704\" rel=\"\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brookie, a government-funded disinformation expert, dedicated much of his time during President Trump\u2019s years in the White House to promoting the false narrative that the President of the United States was a Russian agent controlled by Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Putin is a spy working a source. <\/p>\n<p>We elected someone vulnerable enough to be used and worked over. <\/p>\n<p>The analysis here is not hard. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UUtLyngTcZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/UUtLyngTcZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Graham Brookie (@GrahamBrookie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamBrookie\/status\/1015590972716134401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s no doubt that Donald Trump is the largest spreader of specific and important types of misinformation today, especially about coronavirus, or COVID-19,\u201d Brookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/the-ongoing-american-battle-against-pandemic-misinformation\" rel=\"\">said<\/a> during a PBS interview weeks before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, Brookie would call the Hunter Biden laptop story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamBrookie\/status\/1318346669780586497\" rel=\"\">laundered unverified misinfo<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Leon Panetta and Michael Hayden, two of his Atlantic Council partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/intelligence-experts-refuse-to-apologize-for-smearing-hunter-biden-story\/\" rel=\"\">signed<\/a> an infamous disinformation letter with 49 other former US intelligence officials that spread the lie that the Biden laptop was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated that the Biden laptop story was legitimate and not \u201cRussian disinfo,\u201d Brookie questioned Ratcliffe\u2019s \u201ccredibility\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamBrookie\/status\/1318216705655541761\" rel=\"\">accused<\/a> him of \u201cpoliticizing intel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the Atlantic Council\u2019s disinformation lab, tasked by the US government to censor the 2020 election, publicly tweeted its director\u2019s disdain for the President days before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTrump is hands down the most significant accelerant and amplifier for disinformation in the election&#8230; The scale and scope of domestic disinformation is far greater than anything a foreign adversary could ever do to us.&quot; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFRLab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DFRLab<\/a> Director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamBrookie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GrahamBrookie<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S06mxnGNED\">https:\/\/t.co\/S06mxnGNED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DFRLab &#8211; @dfrlab.bsky.social (@DFRLab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFRLab\/status\/1322546430301638656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>Graphika: Ben Nimmo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152031\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/61bef6ee-2bae-4963-968b-c199be10cda0_1092x752-1024x705.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/61bef6ee-2bae-4963-968b-c199be10cda0_1092x752-1024x705.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/61bef6ee-2bae-4963-968b-c199be10cda0_1092x752-300x207.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/61bef6ee-2bae-4963-968b-c199be10cda0_1092x752-768x529.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/61bef6ee-2bae-4963-968b-c199be10cda0_1092x752.webp 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/02\/09\/facebook-nato-social-media-censor-ben-nimmo-intel\/\" rel=\"\">Ben Nimmo<\/a> speaks at the 2018 Digital Sherlocks conference in Berlin, Germany.<\/h4>\n<p>Ben Nimmo leads the censorship role at Graphika and is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council\u2019s DFR Lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is right that someone is trying to rig the US election, but it is not Hillary Clinton: it is the Kremlin, and Trump is an accomplice, whether or not he realizes it,\u201d Nimmo, a former NATO press officer, wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/02\/opinions\/kremlin-trying-to-rig-election-nimmo-opinion\/index.html\" rel=\"\">November 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump has parroted at least one allegation which began in the Kremlin media. He has benefited from Kremlin-linked hackers, and there are hints that his online support is being influenced by Russian-linked social media accounts,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, the year after Graphika helped censor the 2020 election for the Biden Administration, Graphika<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/search\/?hash=5caa43faf4a5ff7cd70185d0466731e1\" rel=\"\"> was rewarded<\/a> with<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/nL1JWHx\" rel=\"\"> nearly $5 million<\/a> in government grants from the Pentagon \u2013 all to facilitate more censorship work,\u201d Mike Benz explained.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2019, at an Atlantic Council DFR Lab conference, Nimmo trained a roomful of international journalists on how to spot \u201cdisinformation\u201d in tweets by then-President Donald Trump and in ads promoting Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Senior journalists were encouraged to hold up placards reading \u201cBullsh*t\u201d as Trump tweets and Brexit slogans played across the screen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Graphika &amp; DFR Lab Ben Nimmo Trains Journalists To Flag \u201cDisinformation\u201d In Trump Tweets\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_bIlr_n8OFo?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Foundation for Freedom Online report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" rel=\"\">details<\/a> how this government censorship network was hyper-targeted against one specific side. Still, it gets much more severe once you understand the scale of censorship and how entire narratives were systemically silenced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEIP, in its own report, say they classified 22 million tweets (<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=201\" rel=\"\">21,897,364 individual posts, to be precise<\/a>) as each comprising unique \u201cmisinformation incidents\u201d during the four-month period between August 15, 2020 and December 12, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To get this 22 million \u201cmisinformation\u201d number, EIP created a bucket of<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=183\" rel=\"\"> 859 million tweets<\/a> discussing \u201cmisinformation narratives\u201d, and then applied a crude set of subjective inferences to conclude that 22 million tweets out of that 859 million total could be confidently classified as endorsing a banned \u201cmisinformation narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EIP uses a system where each \u201cmisinformation incident\u201d is classified as part of a specific larger \u201cmisinformation narrative\u201d. EIP then turns around and pressures social media representatives to censor entire narratives at scale by using the network maps and narrative analysis that EIP compiles shares with social media companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below are just a few of the<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.stanford.edu\/file\/druid:tr171zs0069\/EIP-Final-Report.pdf#page=203\" rel=\"\"> dozens of narratives<\/a> EIP targeted for throttling wholesale:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152032\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74ad63de-25bc-40ab-a3aa-f933d3e44941_1008x767.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74ad63de-25bc-40ab-a3aa-f933d3e44941_1008x767.webp 1008w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74ad63de-25bc-40ab-a3aa-f933d3e44941_1008x767-300x228.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74ad63de-25bc-40ab-a3aa-f933d3e44941_1008x767-768x584.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Foundation for Freedom Online report is the most comprehensive write-up of the US government\u2019s role in outsourcing censorship to this public-private network named, in Orwellian fashion, the Election Integrity Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Mike Benz, who previously worked for the State Department, has extensively documented the individuals involved, the flow of taxpayer funds, and how the government transformed foreign disinformation into domestic censorship.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFO_Freedom\" rel=\"\">Foundation For Freedom Online<\/a> and its founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\" rel=\"\">Mike Benz<\/a>, on Twitter and check out their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/index.html\" rel=\"\">www.foundationforfreedomonline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829.png 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152033\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829-1024x805.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829-1024x805.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829-300x236.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829-768x604.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4a0a459f-7a8e-44b5-867c-0258666497f8_1054x829.webp 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" rel=\"\">Click to read this report.<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>This authoritarian censorship network that operates in a constellation of NATO, DHS, and State Department-funded NGOs and civil society groups can not be allowed to censor inconvenient truths, facts, and narratives under the guise of protecting the public from so-called misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these censorship proponents were the most prolific spreaders of the false narrative that President Donald Trump was a secret agent of the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>After spending years delegitimizing the 2016 election, this censorship consortium received millions from the US government to silence the American people who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 and 2022 elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an age where social media platforms have become the number one source of news, freedom of speech online, must be protected at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Even Twitter\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk, realizes that the Department of Homeland Security is barrelling down a slippery slope when it circumvents the First Amendment and outsources censorship to a government-funded private network of totalitarian thought police.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the head of the EIP, Alex Stamos, asked Elon Musk for \u201ctransparency\u201d regarding the Tesla CEO tweeting, \u201cthe rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to the CISA censorship czar, \u201cYou operate a propaganda platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152034\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bbb27113-dada-43c5-809d-57feb5c03cab_750x947.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bbb27113-dada-43c5-809d-57feb5c03cab_750x947.jpg 750w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bbb27113-dada-43c5-809d-57feb5c03cab_750x947-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a 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