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/1🚨BREAKING — We filed a class-action lawsuit against “Election Integrity Partnership” & “Virality Project” for conspiring with the federal government to censor conservative political speech.
We are going after the architects of censorship.
/2 Today, we filed a federal class-action lawsuit against key persons and entities involved in the “Election Integrity Partnership” and the “Virality Project,” on behalf of the co-Director of Health Freedom Louisiana and the founder of @gatewaypundit
America First Legal Files Landmark Federal Class-Action Lawsuit Against Private Entities that Conspired With the Federal Government to Censor Speech
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-files-landmark-federal-class-action-lawsuit-against-private-entities-that-conspired-with-the-federal-government-to-censor-speech/
/3 Defendants include the Stanford Internet Observatory and its Director and Research Manager, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta, Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Research Council’s Digital Forensic Lab.
/4 This historic lawsuit alleges that these parties conspired with the federal government to conduct a mass surveillance/censorship operation targeting the political speech of millions of Americans on social media platforms.
/5 This operation was specifically designed to target conservative political speech on questions of great public interest like election integrity, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccine mandates.
/6 The scope of the surveillance and censorship cannot be overstated.
The Defendants admitted that during 2020, they surveilled a staggering 859 million posts on Twitter alone and that they tracked for possible censorship almost 22 million Tweets.
Matt Taibbi·Apr 6
Restoring report that, per the Election Integrity Partnership's own report, their work resulted in flagging of 22 million tweets.
They're playing games with terms like "unique original URL," where more than 1000 tweets can be "collpased" into one "incident":
@mehdirhasan
/7 During 2021, they tracked posts about COVID with about 200 million engagements for possible censorship.
Americans who spoke out against the liberal orthodoxy faced censorship and de-platforming by Big Tech and these elusive surveillance orgs acting with the government.
Mike Benz·Apr 7
No. EIP literally created a ticket for every single one of these election narratives, flagged each NARRATIVE to be mass banned by the tech platforms, and every major tech platform responded to EIP’s narrative-level censorship demands.
Those narratives total to 22 million tweets.
/8 Our lawsuit alleges that this massive operation was concocted in collusion with government officials — including federal national security officials — to evade the First Amendment, all while shielding the government bureaucracy.
Mike Benz·3h
Just so we’re clear: the US government (CISA, at DHS) set up the private sector censorship group (EIP) w/ the censorship switchboard operator (CIS).
The censorship group (EIP) only existed in the first place after its concept was presented to the government (CISA).
12:11 PM · May 2, 2023
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