Attorney General Andrew Bailey
PART THREE: In our efforts to protect the First Amendment, we deposed Brian Scully of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a key player in the federal gov’s efforts to suppress so-called “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” (MDM) about elections. (1/10)🧵
CISA, housed in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and created originally to ward off foreign cyberattacks, has now been weaponized to suppress domestic speech. (2/10)
This is the same group that launched the Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” last year. Due to immense public backlash, they formally “disbanded” that group, but its work continues. (3/10)
CISA’s head, Jen Easterly, believes that the “Infrastructure” in CISA doesn’t mean protecting roads and bridges. It means “cognitive infrastructure,” i.e. suppressing certain kinds of speech. (4/10)
Our depo. focused on Scully, leader of the "Mis-, Dis, & Malinformation" Team (started in '18 as the Countering Foreign Influence Taskforce to ward off foreign cyberattacks). In 2021, the CFITF changed its name, reflecting its shift from foreign threats to domestic speech (5/10)
A couple of the exhibits from yesterday’s deposition are included below: (6/10)
Here, Twitter “actioned” (censored) accounts under their “civic integrity policies” after CISA flags them (7/10)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1614005465750413313.html