Patrick Colbeck

Suppression of State Farm Arena Surveillance Reporting (GA)

Censorship Policy, Established Fact, Georgia, Information Control, United States /

Established Fact Following the December 3, 2020, release of State Farm Arena surveillance video – which showed ballot boxes emerging from under tables and scanning resuming without observers after observers had been told counting was complete – EIP and platform moderators applied the “delegitimization” content category to posts sharing the video footage and underlying reporting.

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Deplatforming Threat Against Sitting Member of Congress and Congressional Candidate (GA)

Censorship Policy, Established Fact, Georgia, Information Control, United States /

Established Fact The EIP identified and flagged core political speech from Georgia Representative Jody Hice (EIP-904) and congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene (EIP-780). Rep. Hice’s post directly criticizing Georgia’s election administration procedures – a textbook instance of protected legislative political speech – was targeted for suppression. Twitter subsequently labeled a significant portion of Rep. Greene’s

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Suppression of Audit-Related Speech During Cyber Ninjas Investigation (AZ)

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Established Fact The EIP engaged in rapid-response flagging campaigns targeting posts that publicized findings from the Arizona Senate-commissioned Cyber Ninjas forensic audit of Maricopa County, characterizing audit-related reporting as a “delegitimization narrative.” Posts citing audit-documented facts – including deleted EMS files, overwritten security logs, and missing ballot images – were labeled as misinformation and routed

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State-Sponsored Suppression of Private Citizen Speech via CIS Tipline (AZ)

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Established Fact The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, under then-Secretary Katie Hobbs, monitored the private Facebook page of a private Arizona citizen and submitted a formal censorship request to the CIS misinformation tipline. The report was forwarded through CIS to CISA and the EIP, and then to Facebook to effectuate content removal. A state government

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CISA Website Scrubbing of Domestic Censorship Activity Records Following Congressional Oversight Inquiry – Awareness of Pending Investigation (US)

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Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – As to § 1519 applicability, pending determination of whether CISA officials knew of pending investigation when scrubbing occurred] Following the initiation of congressional oversight proceedings and the filing of Missouri v. Biden litigation, CISA deleted references to its domestic speech-monitoring and censorship-coordination activities from its public-facing website. The specific content

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CISA Website Scrubbing of Domestic Censorship Activity Records Following Congressional Oversight Inquiry (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – As to the scrubbing occurring post-oversight inquiry] Following the initiation of congressional oversight proceedings and the filing of Missouri v. Biden litigation, CISA deleted references to its domestic speech-monitoring and censorship-coordination activities from its public-facing website. The specific content that was removed included references to the CFITF’s domestic monitoring work

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EIP Suppressed Factual News Reporting of Police-Investigated Ballot Dumping in Greenville, WI – Verified Fact Labeled “Misinformation” Because It Fueled Disfavored Narrative (WI)

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Established Fact The Election Integrity Partnership actively mitigated and labeled social media content reporting on the discovery of absentee ballots that had been found dumped in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin. The event was a confirmed, documented occurrence – it was investigated by local law enforcement. It was not a false claim, a fabricated story,

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CISA Official Brian Scully Directly Contacted Facebook Regarding Erie Postal Worker Whistleblower to Justify Content Removal – Federal Agency Suppression of Sworn Witness Speech (PA)

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Established Fact CISA official Brian Scully communicated directly with Facebook to confirm the status of an Erie, Pennsylvania postal worker who had submitted a whistleblower affidavit alleging that mail-in ballots in his jurisdiction were being backdated and improperly handled. Scully’s direct communication to Facebook regarding the postal worker – a sworn federal witness – was

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Michigan Election Official Deployed CIS/EIP Pipeline to Censor Factual Reporting of Confirmed Antrim County Algorithmic Error – Including Suppression of Presidential Speech (MI)

Antrim County, Censorship Policy, Established Fact, Information Control, Michigan, United States /

Established Fact Following a confirmed algorithmic glitch in Antrim County, Michigan, that temporarily and incorrectly assigned 6,000 votes – switching them from Republican to Democratic candidates – a Michigan state election official filed a report to the CIS censorship portal explicitly to stop “individuals… using this incident to spread misinformation.” The official’s own words acknowledge

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EIP Targeting of Congressional Candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Campaign Social Media Posts as “Delegitimization” Content (GA)

Censorship Policy, Established Fact, Georgia, Information Control, United States /

Established Fact The Election Integrity Partnership, operating under its mandate to suppress “delegitimization” narratives, flagged social media posts from the campaign account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene – then a congressional candidate in Georgia – for censorship or labeling by social media platforms. The posts contained political objections regarding the handling of the Georgia election

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