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Hawley and Grassley Receive Evidence from Whistleblower Showing DHS Intent to Weaponize Social Media to Control Information

Whistleblower evidence

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_hawley_to_deptofhomelandsecuritydisinformationgovernanceboard.pdf

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Documents also suggest that the Department has been working on plans to

“operationalize” its relationships with private social media companies to implement its public

policy goals.

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For example, we obtained draft briefing notes prepared for a scheduled April 28,

2022, meeting between Robert Silvers and Twitter executives Nick Pickles, Head of Policy, and

Yoel Roth, Head of Site Integrity. The notes are marked “TBC,” and it is unclear whether the

scheduled meeting actually took place. The briefing notes frame the planned meeting between

Silvers and the Twitter executives as “an opportunity to discuss operationalizing public-private

partnerships between DHS and Twitter, as well as [to] inform Twitter executives about DHS

work on MDM, including the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board and its analytic

exchange…”

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According to whistleblower allegations, Nina Jankowicz may have been hired

because of her relationship with executives at Twitter. Consistent with these allegations, Silvers’

briefing notes state that both Pickles and Roth know Jankowicz.16

A recent DHS strategy

document further discusses efforts to “[e]mpower partners to mitigate MDM threats.”17

The

document states that in certain cases, federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial or

nongovernmental partners “may be better positioned to mitigate MDM Threats based on their

capabilities and authorities.”

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DHS theorizes that “[b]y sharing information, DHS can empower

these partners to mitigate threats such as providing information to technology companies

enabling them to remove content at their discretion and consistent with their terms of service.”

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