{"id":1443141,"date":"2023-12-10T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1443141"},"modified":"2023-12-10T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:00:00","slug":"how-the-federal-private-speech-police-operated-in-election-2020-with-radar-highly-attuned-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/how-the-federal-private-speech-police-operated-in-election-2020-with-radar-highly-attuned-to-the-right\/1443141\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Federal-Private Speech Police Operated In Election 2020: With Radar Highly Attuned To The Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

How The Federal-Private Speech Police Operated In Election 2020: With Radar Highly Attuned To The Right<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Wire<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

During the 2020 election, the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) partnered with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP),<\/strong> a consortium of groups led by the Stanford Internet Observatory, to track and counter what they considered mis- and dis-information.<\/p>\n

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EIP surveilled hundreds of millions of social media posts and collected from the cooperating government and non-governmental entities that it calls its \u201cstakeholders\u201d potential violations of social media platforms\u2019 policies concerning election speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It coordinated its efforts primarily through a digital \u201cticketing\u201d system. <\/strong>There, one of its as many as 120 analysts or an external partner could highlight a piece of offending social media content, or narrative consisting of many offending posts, by creating a \u201cticket,\u201d and share it with other relevant participants by \u201ctagging\u201d them. Tagged participants could then communicate with each other, in something of a group chat, about the veracity of the flagged content, concerns about its spread, and what actions they might take to combat it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For social media companies this meant removing the content outright, reducing its spread, or \u201cinforming\u201d users about dubious posts by slapping corrective or contextualizing labels on them.<\/p>\n

During the 2020 election cycle, EIP generated a total of 639 tickets, covering some 4,784 unique URLs \u2013 representing content shared\u00a0millions of times<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 disproportionately related to the \u201cdelegitimization\u201d of election results. Major platforms including Twitter, Google, and Facebook responded to tickets in which they were tagged at rates of 75% or higher.<\/strong> The platforms \u201clabeled, removed, or soft blocked<\/a>\u201d 35% of the URLs shared via EIP.<\/p>\n

RealClearInvestigations has obtained data associated with nearly 400 EIP tickets, data produced for the House Homeland Security Committee in connection with its oversight efforts. The tickets come in the form of a series of spreadsheets. Each row represents one ticket. The Stanford group provided no key for the spreadsheets. Much of the information is redacted.<\/p>\n

Here are just a few examples of the tickets EIP produced:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ticket EIP-482 (created October 27, 2020) was originated by the CISA\u2019s Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). It concerns a\u00a0tweet<\/a>\u00a0from then-President Trump indicating \u201cmost\u201d states permit one to change one\u2019s original vote after engaging in early voting, which EIP categorized as potential \u201cProcedural Interference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The analysts point to fact-checks from, among other sources,\u00a0Buzzfeed<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ABC News<\/a>\u00a0challenging the president\u2019s claim. Following two redacted comments on the ticket, an unnamed commenter writes, \u201cTwitter received and is reviewing.\u201d A subsequent comment reads: \u201cWe heard back from Twitter through CISA with this response: Our team concluded that the Tweet was not in violation of our Civic Integrity Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

CISA-produced documentation shows the sub-agency\u2019s chief counter-MDM (mis-, dis-, and malinformation) officer, Brian Scully, had also reported the tweet to Twitter, which responded to him directly about it. Therefore, EIP and its stakeholder, an executive agency, both forwarded the chief executive\u2019s speech to a social media platform for potential censorship.<\/p>\n

Ticket EIP-257 (Sept. 29), originated by the EI-ISAC, concerns a social media post from an unnamed user, alleging an absentee ballot had been delivered by mail to his dead father. An EIP stakeholder \u201cflagged the post to Facebook for removal and the link is no longer active which means it has either been taken down or made private to the individual\u2019s Facebook.\u201d A subsequent comment notes that \u201cWe also received confirmation from Facebook (by way of CISA) that Facebook took action on this case,\u201d again showing EIP and CISA seemingly working as force multipliers in content moderation.<\/p>\n

Ticket EIP-301 (Oct. 2), originated by the EI-ISAC, concerns a \u201ctweet regarding voting machines.\u201d <\/strong>An elected official reported that the since-deleted and unavailable tweet \u201cis false. Voting machines work the vast majority of the time. Old machines do have issues, but to phrase it like [this] vastly overstates the scope of the problem.\u201d CISA inquired as to whether Twitter took the tweet down. It did.<\/p>\n

Ticket EIP-954 (Nov. 8), the origins of which are not discernible, concerns social media posts sharing an article from The Federalist, where I am a senior contributor, titled \u201cAmerica Won\u2019t Trust Elections Until The Voter Fraud Is Investigated<\/a>.\u201d According to the ticket, the article \u201cMisconstrues Disinformation as Evidence.\u201d <\/strong>One tagged post comes from Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway. A stakeholder writes to Facebook and Twitter in connection with the ticket that \u201cthis seems to be the greatest hits from the past 3 days wrapped up in one article. The article links to several of the gateway pundit links which have received action since Tuesday.<\/strong>\u201d Twitter indicates it was reviewing the tweet, though it appears not to have taken action on it. RCI asked Hemingway for comment on the flagging of her tweet and publication\u2019s work. She replied:<\/p>\n

This unconscionable censorship of The Federalist and its reporters is sadly unsurprising.<\/strong> The censorship-industrial complex in this country clearly views free speech as its enemy and will do anything to shut it down, including spreading lies and using intimidation to coerce private companies to censor factual, legal speech on behalf of the regime.<\/p>\n

Hemingway concluded with a warning: \u201cThe censorship-industrial complex better buckle up, because the days of conservatives taking this lying down are over.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was adapted from a <\/em>RealClearInvestigations article published Nov. 6<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 12\/09\/2023 – 21:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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