REPORT: USAID Funded Stanford University and Its “Internet Observatory” Project – The Same Censorship Group That Targeted The Gateway Pundit and Parler
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/report-usaid-funded-stanford-university-its-internet-observatory/
Over the past years, many of us, this journalist included, have been completely wiped from major social media platforms that function as today’s digital public square.
Now we know that taxpayer money has been funneled to silence the American taxpayers. Let me tell you a story about the digital media platform Parler and how the USAID targeted them.
With that in mind, Parler and other platforms began providing us that freedom in the digital space. Parler in particular, founded in 2018 as a Twitter’esque alternative that respects ACTUAL free speech, was one of the earlier pioneers in this parallel economy for the exchange of ideas.
While it achieved some early success and showed signs of growing to tens of millions of followers over the course of the next few years, they too became victims of Orwellian attacks from hacktivist groups that have spent years doxxing, debanking, harassing, and stifling anyone to the right of Karl Marx.
In the days following the events of January 6th, that we now know was fomented by federal informants and allowed to continue by Nancy Pelosi and the DC Mayor’s failure to take President Trump’s concerns about security seriously, a leftwing hacktivist breached Parler and leaked users personal data.
And then Apple and Google banned them from the App Store, with Amazon Web Services being the final nail in Parler’s coffin by canceling their hosting services.
BTW, Parler is back under new leadership and planning BIG THINGS in the coming weeks. Secured by the blockchain and free from censorship.
Now, this GP journalist has learned that the Stanford Internet Observatory, a group that received funding from the National Science Foundation, which is in partnership and receives funds from USAID, published a report on how they “took down” Parler.
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