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Margot Cleveland: The State Department Funded a Private Group to Draw Up Lists of Conservative Outlets Who Should Be Censored, Then Used This List to Pressure Advertisers Not to Do Business With ThemHere's some background. Do you remember this story? In 2018, a leftwing group was faking "Russian bot" support of the Republican candidate Roy Moore. They then took the fake Russian bot story, that they had created out of whole cloth, to the media, to help the Democrat win the election. It was all fake. The only "Russians" in the story were the ones created by this leftwing group. Here's the New York Times, spinning insanely for their Democrat "disinformation" buddies. As Russia's online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results. Sure. We know for sure that $150,000 in Russian ad buys on FaceBook to support both Trump and Hillary Clinton definitely swung that election to Trump, but no one can say if this Democrat op had any "significant" effect on a statewide race, during a period of Peak Russiagate Paranoia in the media. ... in which the Democratic candidate it was designed to help, Doug Jones, edged out the Republican, Roy S. Moore. Oh he edged him out? Definitely, there's no way this op could have contributed to that edging. But it was a sign that American political operatives of both parties have paid close attention to the Russian methods, which some fear may come to taint elections in the United States. Of "both parties"! It was the Democrats that did this, but don't you worry -- this is about both parties! One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russia's social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Oh I see -- we know that scheme swung an election. But not this one! Now, note the name Renée DiResta: Mr. Morgan reached out at the time to Renée DiResta, who would later join New Knowledge and was lead author of the report on Russian social media operations released this week. Oh she just was a Helpy Helperton in all this. She was Advancing Science. So who is Renée DiResta? Well, she's a former CIA employee -- she claims she was just an "intern," um, whatever, she's not exactly a reliable witness -- who just so happens to have lead the "Global Engagement Center" and then the "Stanford Internet Observatory," two government-funded groups that carry out "disinformation" operations against the right. In other words, she's the government's Queen of Disinformation -- and labeling Republicans as almost exclusively guilty of spreading it. And yet the Queen of Disinformation-Labeling was guilty of having helped a Democrat group create a Fake Russian Conspiracy in order to swing an election. The woman who claims to be an expert in disinformation was a critical part of spreading actual disinformation (involving Russia) in a closely-fought election in which the Democrat "edged out" the Republican.
She claims that she thought she was just participating in "an experiment" -- an experiment to see if disinformation could successfully get a Democrat to edge out a Republican in a real live election. She claims -- and those behind this disinformation scheme claim -- they were just running an "experiment" during a real election using real ads intended to manipulate real voters, but they "designed the experiment" to be so "limited" as that it could not have any significant impact on the race. This is their cover story. The New York Times obviously was convinced of this -- or rather, they walked into the story already convinced of the notion that if Democrats ever engaged in disinformation themselves, it must only be for Scientific Purposes, to better understand how Russians and Republicans (but they repeat themselves) use disinformation. No one else believes this. Just the hard-left propagandists of the media. And the Disinformation-Industrial Complex itself. So keep Reneé DiResta in mind as you read Margot Cleveland's article about the "Global Engagement Center," which DiResta used to run. Meet The Shadowy Group That Ran The Federal Government’s Censorship Scheme This included running GEC's "Testbed" program, which tested government efforts to censor speech it didn't like in the real world. ... Park Advisors also handed out government money -- awards -- to companies for technology that made it easier for the government to censor conservatives. Nemr stressed that eight awards were granted. At least two of the monetary awards went to organizations targeting conservatives -- including news outlets -- for censorship, namely the Global Disinformation Index and the Institute of Strategic Dialogue. Despite purporting to fund foreign-based tech experts "to implement a tool, locally, to address misinformation and disinformation challenges in the region," these U.S.-Paris Challenge awardees reached squarely into the American marketplace of speech. Here's another winner: Leftwing group Newsgard, which consistently rates conservative sites as "unreliable" and most leftwing conspiracy-mongering sites as "reliable." One of the winners of this challenge was the irresponsible, reliability-ratings company NewsGuard. Like GDI, NewsGuard also champions leftist outlets that peddled the Russia-collusion hoax and wrongly framed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, while branding conservative outlets such as The Federalist as unreliable. All paid for by the State Department, in program of widespread, massive government censorship with an avowed goal of starving right-leaning sites of ad dollars. David French just emailed me to say, "Snooze, what a nothingburger, this is just 'jawboning' by the government. The government has the right to free speech too, and the most important part of free speech is using taxpayer dollars to censor speech." One more story: "disinformation" groups refuse disclose their donors. They even refuse to disclose, on their legally-required Form 990 charitable organization disclosure forms, who their directors and principals even are. They claim their refusal to engage in the most minimal levels of disclosure is justified -- to stop "harassment" by the right. 'Disinformation' network blacklisting conservative news hides tax forms over 'harassment' by Gabe Kaminsky, Investigative Reporter | This "disinformation group" is violating US law. "This is outrageous," said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative watchdog that plans to file an IRS complaint against both nonprofit groups. So: "business defamation" is a real tort. You can sue for this. But these companies operate in secret -- they spread their defamations on the down-low to advertisers and social media monopolies. The victims of their defamations don't even know why their ad revenue has suddenly dropped to zero. Congress needs to pass a bill specifically empowering business defamation victims to sue their defamers, and further, because leftwing judges will claim that these defamations are made as part of "spirited public debate," the new law should make it clear that a defamation, passed privately to an advertiser or social media company, is obviously not part of a "spirited public debate" and therefore cannot be said to have special protection under the First Amendment. The law should mandate that any group engaged in efforts to censor speech must keep strict records of exactly what is said to the companies they talk to, so we have a record of what defamations were made. And if their records appear incomplete or "edited," then juries may infer that what they said was legally defamatory. Further, the law must specify that the any "malice" standard, if applicable at all, can be satisfied by proving the defamation-throwing company is politically biased and has a substantial history of animus against particular political groups and ideas. Allowable evidence to prove this should include demonstrating that the "disinformation" defamer employs almost exclusively people from one side of the political aisle. I believe it was Reneé DiResta herself who admitted there are barely any Republicans at the Sanford Observatory (for tracking "disinformation" online), explaining that Republicans just aren't interested in fighting disinformation. They're the primary purveyors of it, as she explained in that Atlantic article. Lastly, there must be allowance for huge, and I do mean huge, punitive damage awards if the company engaged in suppression-of-speech-by-defamation is funded by any government money at all. | Recent Comments
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