Meet The Partisans Who Wove The Censorship Complex’s Vast And Tangled Web

The following are some of the highlights. “Twitter Files” The Washington Examiner’s coverage on the Global Disinformation Index has revealed a vast Censorship Complex, which seeks to silence Americans for politics, money, ideology, power, and much more.

A Search The keywords include the list of grants and government contracts for the eight fiscal year 2016-2017 “misinformation” Or “disinformation” It was revealed that 538 federal grants and 36 contracts were given to many academic institutions and nongovernmental organizations. 

It will take more time to map out the connections between the award recipients, government officials, and pro-censorship left. However, this snapshot confirms that taxpayers funds the expansion of Censorship Complex. The eight previous fiscal years (2008 to 2015) show the federal government. Recipient Only two federal grants and seven federal contracts are available. “disinformation” Or “misinformation” research. 

A similar investigation was done into the academic institutions and nonprofits mentioned in the “Twitter Files” The expansion of the Censorship complex was funded by government grants, donations from liberal nonprofits, as well as money from leftist billionaires. Research shows that disinformation organizations are run by ex-government employees, leftist media types, and left-leaning, or anti-Trump, individuals.

Alliance Securing Democracy

Of the think tanks identified in Twitter communications, Alliance Securing Democracy (ASD) might be the most notorious thanks to Matt Taibbi’s exposé on ASD’s Hamilton 68 dashboard. 

Hamilton 68, ex-FBI agent Clint Watts, launched the digital dashboard in August 2017. “help ordinary people, journalists, and other analysts identify Russian messaging themes and detect active disinformation or attack campaigns as soon as they begin.” Based on 644 accounts Hamilton 68 Claim It was “selected for their relationship to Russian-sponsored influence and disinformation campaigns,” ASD’s dashboard, which allowed users to track online Russian influence, was maintained. 

Taibbi said that the problem is: “The Twitter Files expose Hamilton 68 as a sham.”

ASD was apparently unaware that Twitter reverse-engineered Hamilton 68’s online Russian influence. Find it “No evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of Russian information ops.” The entire method was flawed. 

ASD, however, played a crucial role in the drive to censor speech as claimed “disinformation,” With the dashboard Serving As “the source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years” By “virtually Every major news agency.” Watts is another source of disinformation. testified before Congress, telling senators that the Hamilton 68 dashboard provided the means for the U.S. government “to have an understanding of what Russia is doing in social media.” 

Watts further revealed in his testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, that he “tried to provide to the U.S. government directly through multiple agencies” the Hamilton 68 information, telling the lawmakers they should “want to equip our intelligence agencies, our law enforcement agencies, and the Department

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