Newly uncovered documents reveal a covert operation within the Department of Homeland Security in the days leading up to the last presidential election.
Agents reportedly censored the posting of baseless conspiracies and hid their activity from federal document disclose laws.
The nonprofit public interest law firm Judicial Watch reports they “received 44 pages of records in a Freedom of Information Act (F lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show a close collaboration between DHS's Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the leftist Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to engage in ‘real-time narrative tracking' on all major social media platforms” in the days and weeks leading up to Election Day.
“The records discuss ‘takedowns' of social media posts and the avoidance of creating public records subject to FOIA,” Judicial Watch (JW) reports.
“The records also show that the EIP, which was initially called the Election Misinformation Partnership in the days leading up to the November 3, 2020, election, tasked staffers with monitoring online election content 24 hours a day with a priority being ‘disinfo that is going viral,'” JW reveals.
The Election Integrity Partnership was created in July 2020 to control information about the upcoming presidential election. According to Just the News:
The consortium is comprised of four member organizations: Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, and social media analytics firm Graphika. It set up a concierge-like service in 2020 that allowed federal agencies like Homeland's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and State's Global Engagement Center to file “tickets” requesting that online story links and social media posts be censored or flagged by Big Tech.
Three liberal groups — the Democratic National Committee, Common Cause and the NAACP — were also empowered like the federal agencies to file tickets seeking censorship of content. A Homeland-funded collaboration, the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, also had access.
JW argues it was unconstitutional for federal agents to remove such posts.
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