A bombshell new report by The Intercept titled, “Truth Cops: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation,” is receiving international attention for exposing how federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) worked closely with Big Tech platforms to target, investigate, and censor Americans for simply questioning government COVID policies, vaccine safety, election integrity, and other issues of vital importance to the health and civil rights of US citizens.
The report’s key takeaways are:
Though DHS shuttered its controversial Disinformation Governance Board, a strategic document reveals the underlying work is ongoing.
DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
Facebook created a special portal for DHS and government partners to report disinformation directly.
A major conclusion of the report is that,
“The inherently subjective nature of what constitutes disinformation provides a broad opening for DHS officials to make politically motivated determinations about what constitutes dangerous speech.”
The New War On Terror Directed Against Health Freedom Advocates?
Recently, the Department of Homeland Security issued a national advisory wherein it associated the exercise of the First Amendment with acts of “domestic terrorism.” The August 13, 2021 DHS bullein titled, “Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” proposes that key drivers of domestic terrorist threats include conspiracy theories related to election fraud, concerns over the origin of the COVID-19, and discussion about the [lack of] effectiveness of vaccines. More on this DHS bulletin here.
A recent lawsuit filed by two state Attorneys General (we reported on here) found at least 45 federal employees, across numerous agencies, were colluding with Big Tech platform executives to target specific individuals (such as myself) it claimed were purveyors of “disinformation.” One of the leaked emails showed that my personal account on Facebook, along with my associated organizations and their websites (www.Greenmedinfo.com and www.StandforHealthfreedom.com) were being investigated and targeted for censorship. The lawsuit described the relationship between the federal agencies and Big Tech to be a “vast Censorship Enterprise.”
According to the Intercept report,
“The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.”
The Larger Orwellian Implications to Policing Thought
A recent article by Caitlin Johnston titled, “Destroying Western Values To Defend Western Values,” aptly summarizes the larger implications of the DHS’s transmogrification into neo-Orwellian Thought Police, when she writes:
“So it turns out the US intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the "cognitive infrastructure" of the population.”
For example, after Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and hundreds of other Big Tech platforms decided to adopt the CDC and WHO’s official COVID origins, risk profile, and treatment narrative as the only acceptable speech on its platforms, as justified by their “Community Standards,” any speech or visual depiction (memes) in violation of their guidelines could result in shadow or overt banning, hundreds of millions of people either were removed from their platforms or began an even more malignant process of self-censoring as a mitigating strategy. This resulted in altering the psychological/cognitive infrastructure of the world when it came to the ability to question, reflect upon, speak and act accordingly. In other words, the “cognitive infrastructure” (which has simultaneously a behavioral component) was altered, planet wide.
The Intercept report also noted that, "prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives." Considering what we know of the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) identified by Epstein et al, namely, the majority of the world’s elections are profoundly influenced by Google’s autocomplete search suggestions, the federal government’s politically motivated influence on the speech policies of Big Tech platforms, may be having deciding effects on certain key elections.
In essence, Big Government’s merger with Big Tech (the classical definition of fascism is the merger of state and corporate power) is undermining the Constitutional rights of all US citizens. Learn more and take action with Stand for Health Freedom's latest campaign: Stop the White House from using Big Data to destroy the First Amendment.
Damning Evidence: DHS Discussed Using 3rd Party Non-Profits to Hide It’s Disinfo Propaganda
The Intercept report reveals a leaked email by a DHS official, during an internal strategy discussion, suggesting the agency should use third party non-profits as a “clearing house for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda.”
A Washington Examiner report written by John R. Schindler, a former employee with the National Security Agency, elaborates further on this highly concerning finding:
“That’s what is called a "cut-out" in the spy trade, the use of a deniable intermediary. Biden’s DHS wanted to use ostensibly private cut-outs to spread political propaganda approved by the White House, paid for with taxpayer money.
That sounds more like East Germany than America. I’ve been countering disinformation, mainly Russian, since the 1990s, and the line between foreign lies and domestic views was always clear inside the Beltway. At least until Biden entered the White House. What’s been going on in Washington is illegal and un-American. It needs thorough exposure. In the new year, when the House of Representatives is likely to be in Republican hands, what DHS and other federal agencies have been up to needs a full investigation.
We are fortunate that the DHS bureaucrats who were colluding with Big Tech against Republicans, and anyone who doesn’t follow the Democratic party line, were foolish enough to write their wacky, unconstitutional ideas down in unclassified memos where reporters could find them. Biden’s Deep State is thankfully inept. On cue, the legacy media is ignoring the Intercept’s bombshell report since it’s not the narrative they want, particularly just a few days away from the midterm elections .
Still, dear journalists who have pontificated for years about how "democracy dies in darkness" — here’s your chance to stand up for free speech and keeping the government away from our cherished values.”
Probe launched into Homeland Security’s 'taxpayer-funded censorship campaign'
According to a report by The Center Square, House Oversight Committee Republicans have initiated an investigation into what they are calling a “taxpayer-funded censorship campaign” at the Department of Homeland Security.
The Center square obtained a letter from the group, led by ranking member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, wherein it is stated:
“CISA is framing any dissenting opinion disseminated online as a cyber threat to critical infrastructure…
CISA leverages partnerships with left-leaning private organizations – who have received millions of dollars in federal money – to identify and then take action against political speech unfavorable to the Administration, especially around its handling of COVID-19 policy.”
CISA is the acronym for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an agency implicated in the “vast Censorship Enterprise” identified in the recent Schmitt/Landry lawsuit.
The Center Square report elaborates further on the nature of CISA’s unconstitutional activities:
“This effort began after CISA partnered with left-leaning organizations and Big Tech companies to launch the Election Integrity Partnership,” the letter said. “The EIP provides an online complaint-processing platform that permits groups – including the Democratic National Committee on at least four occasions – to submit ‘tickets’ reporting narratives they flagged for concerns.
“‘Tickets’ were frequently resolved by taking one of several actions: 1) banning the user from posting his or her lawful speech or deplatforming the individual entirely, 2) algorithmically restricting the reach of the speech on the platform, or 3) adding other information, such as a warning label, to the post alerting users to the post’s disfavored status,” the letter added.
According to the report, although the investigation is spearheaded by the Republican minority on the House Oversight Committee, “If Republicans take the majority in the House as current polling suggests, the probe could become a major feature of the second half of President Joe Biden’s first term in office.”
Critical Calls to Action & Empowerment!
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