{"id":5561,"date":"2023-11-16T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:54:04","slug":"2020-election-dhs-colluded-with-private-groups-to-censor-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/opinion\/2020-election-dhs-colluded-with-private-groups-to-censor-conservatives\/paul-crespo\/2023\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Election &#8211; DHS Colluded With Private Groups To Censor Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS<\/strong> \u2013 Yes, this was election interference. Under the guise of combating &#8216;misinformation&#8217; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) led the effort that colluded with major universities and Big Tech to censor free speech leading up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As&nbsp;House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Monday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/house-judiciary-newsmax-government-censorship\/2023\/11\/06\/id\/1141218\/?ns_mail_uid=2ae606f0-443e-4311-975a-e8ee22590b5c&amp;ns_mail_job=DM541949_11072023&amp;s=acs&amp;dkt_nbr=010504777sxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> Newsmax: &#8220;This pressure was largely directed in a way that benefited one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as &#8216;misinformation&#8217; while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did they do this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An interim&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">staff report<\/a>&nbsp;by the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government explained that DHS, so-called disinformation &#8220;experts&#8221; at universities, Big Tech and others colluded through the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to monitor and censor Americans&#8217; online speech during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The federal government and universities pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes and political opinions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The federal government, disinformation \u201cexperts\u201d at universities, Big Tech, and others worked together through the Election Integrity Partnership to monitor &amp; censor Americans\u2019 speech.<\/p>&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1721674462922170578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the DHS targets was Newsmax, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/eip-jira-report-key-takeaways-one-pager-11.6.23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">summary<\/a>&nbsp;of the report, titled &#8220;The Weaponization of &#8216;Disinformation&#8217; Pseudo-experts and Bureaucrats: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor Americans&#8217; Free Speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newsmax&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/house-judiciary-newsmax-government-censorship\/2023\/11\/06\/id\/1141218\/?ns_mail_uid=2ae606f0-443e-4311-975a-e8ee22590b5c&amp;ns_mail_job=DM541949_11072023&amp;s=acs&amp;dkt_nbr=010504777sxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>: \u201cThe report revealed how the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Global Engagement Center (GEC) within the State Department coordinated with Stanford University and other entities to create the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to censor Americans&#8217; speech in the lead-up to the election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1721674464276988193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on X<\/a>, Jordan wrote, &#8220;according to one EIP member, the EIP was created &#8216;at the request of CISA.&#8217; The head of the EIP also said that EIP was created after &#8216;working on some monitoring ideas with CISA.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newsmax added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>It [the report] outlines how the EIP was created in the summer of 2020 to provide a way for the federal government &#8220;to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing the First Amendment and public scrutiny.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The EIP targeted Americans across the political spectrum, but especially conservatives,&#8221; according to the report&#8217;s summary.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The House committee found that EIP, using Stanford, encouraged social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, to declare conservative news as &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Newsmax&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/house-judiciary-newsmax-government-censorship\/2023\/11\/06\/id\/1141218\/?ns_mail_uid=2ae606f0-443e-4311-975a-e8ee22590b5c&amp;ns_mail_job=DM541949_11072023&amp;s=acs&amp;dkt_nbr=010504777sxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continued<\/a>:<strong><em>&nbsp;\u201c&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>EIP used a tactic known as &#8220;switchboarding&#8221; to refer to removal requests from state and local officials to Facebook, X and other social media sites, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/06\/news\/new-emails-show-dhs-created-stanford-disinfo-group-that-censored-speech-before-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;reported Monday\u2026the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana ruled in September federal officials colluded with Big Tech social media platforms to suppress speech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they didn\u2019t just censor everyday Americans, they also targeted Republican politicians ranging from former President Donald Trump, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the media, the report noted, in addition to Newsmax, this corrupt political effort targeted conservative commentators such as Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, Michelle Malkin and Mollie Hemingway, and &#8220;an untold number of everyday Americans of all political affiliations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an added note, I was permanently banned from LinkedIn, where I had a growing following in the tens of thousands, back in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Great America News Desk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS \u2013 Yes, this was election interference. Under the guise of combating &#8216;misinformation&#8217; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) led the effort that colluded with major universities and Big Tech to censor free speech leading up to the 2020 election. As&nbsp;House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Monday,&nbsp;according to Newsmax: &#8220;This pressure was largely directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[58,160,251,181],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-2020-election","tag-conservatives","tag-homeland-security-department","tag-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2020 Election - DHS Colluded With Private Groups To Censor Conservatives - Great America News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/opinion\/2020-election-dhs-colluded-with-private-groups-to-censor-conservatives\/paul-crespo\/2023\/11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2020 Election - DHS Colluded With Private Groups To Censor Conservatives - Great America News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ANALYSIS \u2013 Yes, this was election interference. 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