1/ THREAD🚨 #TwitterFiles@elonmusk slams CISA censorship network as ‘propaganda platform.’
This DHS-backed censorship consortium used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19.https://t.co/88YpFKoTuJ
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
3/ On the 2020 election:
•120 analysts monitored 15 tech platforms
•22 Million tweets labeled “misinformation”
•Entire “misinformation narratives” targeted for platform-wide throttlingThe EIP claimed every “repeat spreader of election misinformation” was on the right. pic.twitter.com/WCNRlpkUMj
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
5/ The @FFO_Freedom report comprehensively details the US government’s role in outsourcing censorship to this public-private network.
Founder @MikeBenzCyber extensively documented the individuals involved and the flow of taxpayer funds ($40M) to domestic censorship. pic.twitter.com/EjeNpziu38
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
7/ But CISA had a First Amendment problem. The US government cannot sandblast millions of voters off the Internet because of their speech about elections.
CISA needed private sector partners to do dirty work. And that’s where EIP stepped in:@FFO_Freedom @MikeBenzCyber pic.twitter.com/jVSrZNZ14D
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
9/ So, who are these unelected bureaucrats who get to play judge, jury, and executioner and control the thoughts of millions of Americans?
“The main character in the CISA side of this story is its then-director, Chris Krebs.”https://t.co/WWYhl8pkl8@FFO_Freedom @MikeBenzCyber
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
11/ Alex Stamos, a former Facebook exec, is the founder of the EIP censorship network and Krebs’ business partner.
Stamos is a member of the CFR, a member of the Aspen Institute, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and he loves censoring his political opponents. pic.twitter.com/Ww45NogbNS
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
13/ Kate Starbird is the head of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public director and CISA’s “disinformation” advisor subcommittee.
US government grants have funded her work on domestic censorship since 2013. pic.twitter.com/chjMmXYOjw
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
15/ In October 2018, Starbird told her Facebook followers to vote Democrat to hold Trump responsible for “corruption and collusion” and his “racist, anti-LGBT agenda.”
Starbird claimed Trump’s “nationalism” didn’t stand for “patriotism” but instead stood for “white supremacy.” pic.twitter.com/aFjdtaQbAG
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
17/ Graham Brookie is the figure who led the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and a previous Obama White House National Security Council member.
The Atlantic Council is a NATO think-tank with seven living CIA directors as members. pic.twitter.com/w2lqNQOQLO
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
19/ In Oct. 2020, Brookie would call the #BidenLaptop “laundered unverified misinfo.”
When DNI John Ratcliffe stated that the laptop was legitimate, Brookie publicly condemned Ratcliffe’s “credibility” and accused him of “politicizing intel.” pic.twitter.com/lpvKEtkkEw
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
21/ Ben Nimmo, a Facebook exec, leads the censorship role at Graphika and is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab.
He was a NATO press officer and was briefly listed as a senior fellow at the UK Institute for Statecraft. pic.twitter.com/CYFipopXtZ
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
23/ In June 2019, at an Atlantic Council conference, Nimmo trained journalists on how to spot “disinformation” in Trump tweets and Brexit ads.
Senior journalists were encouraged to hold up placards reading “Bullsh*t” to Trump tweets and Brexit slogans:@FFO_Clan pic.twitter.com/LYi2L42xCv
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
25/ In effect, the left was allowed to discuss the vulnerabilities of voting machines after the 2016 election, and the right was banned from social media platforms for discussing those very same vulnerabilities after the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/mupJcI3Qhe
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
27/ The political establishment and the left used the covid-19 crisis to push for nationwide mail-in voting, which increased the number of ballots cast by mail from 28.8 million in 2016 to 66.4 million in 2020, a massive 131% increase. pic.twitter.com/yVCHS5VhfT
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
29/ In Europe, 74% of nations ban mail-in ballots for citizens living inside their country.
Brazil, Russia, Israel, Mexico, and a host of additional developed nations have also banned mail-in voting due to security concerns.https://t.co/MWEkGsVfqD pic.twitter.com/Z1cNtRtPN3
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022
31/ Regardless of your opinion on voting machines or mail-in voting, it’s clear that this public-private censorship network conspired with big tech & big government to censor one side of the discussion.
In Feb. 2021, the EIP expanded its focus to censor covid-19 disinformation. pic.twitter.com/LRJO2QG9Sn
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2022