United States

CISA-EIP Domestic Censorship Architecture (US)

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Established Fact CISA requested the creation of the Election Integrity Partnership in July 2020, then fed state/NGO complaints into EIP’s Jira system, monitored outcomes, and celebrated successful takedowns. EIP partners (Stanford Internet Observatory, UW Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, Atlantic Council DFRLab) systematically targeted “delegitimization of election results” narratives, a category that disproportionately encompassed

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Re-framing Verified Reporting on Discarded Ballots as “Mail Dumping Myths” (WI)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, United States, Wisconsin /

Established Fact In Greenville, Wisconsin, local media accurately reported an incident of discarded absentee ballots. EIP analysts, citing that reporting, categorized the story as part of a “mail dumping” disinformation narrative and pushed platforms to deprioritize or label related content. Rather than correcting any specific factual error, the operation treated accurate but politically inconvenient reporting

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Coordinated Suppression of Legal Allegations Concerning Philadelphia Election Procedures (PA)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, Pennsylvania, United States /

Established Fact EIP and CISA collaborated to label and suppress high-profile statements by attorney Harmeet Dhillon and former Speaker Newt Gingrich concerning alleged denial of lawful observation in Philadelphia and related election-law issues. Their public legal arguments, grounded in sworn declarations from Pennsylvania poll watchers, were categorized as “delegitimization” and “disinformation,” and flagged for platform

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Narrative Control of the Antrim County Tabulation Failure (MI)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, Michigan, United States /

Established Fact After Antrim County reported a confirmed mis-tabulation that temporarily flipped a historically Republican county to Biden, state officials, working within the CISA/EIP information-control architecture, pressed platforms to treat discussion of the Antrim incident as “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation.” EIP records show that posts by the sitting President, as well as Michigan-based election-integrity content

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Illegal Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression by Intelligence Community and Platform Coordination (US)

Disputed Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, United States /

Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – Legal classification] Fifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed a public letter on October 19, 2020, characterizing the Hunter Biden laptop story – published by the New York Post – as bearing “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post’s Twitter account was locked. Facebook reduced distribution

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Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression by Intelligence Community and Platform Coordination (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Coordination] Fifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed a public letter on October 19, 2020, characterizing the Hunter Biden laptop story – published by the New York Post – as bearing “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post’s Twitter account was locked. Facebook reduced distribution of

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51 Former Intelligence Officials Published Intentionally False Statement Characterizing Authentic Hunter Biden Laptop as Russian Disinformation (US)

Disputed Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, United States /

Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to whether individual signatories knew the characterization was false at time of signing] Fifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed and published, in October 2020, a letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop story bore “the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.” This letter was published ten days before the 2020 presidential

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51 Former Intelligence Officials Published Statement Characterizing Authentic Hunter Biden Laptop as Russian Disinformation – Coordinated With Biden Campaign; IC IG Found Characterization False (US)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, United States /

Established Fact [Established Fact – As to letter, campaign coordination per Morell’s Senate testimony, and IC IG authentication finding] Fifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed and published, in October 2020, a letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop story bore “the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.” This letter was published ten days before the 2020 presidential

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DNC Participated in EIP Jira Ticketing System; RNC Declined – Structural Partisan Asymmetry in Government-Sponsored Censorship Apparatus (US)

Influence Operation, Information Control, Reasonable Inference, United States /

Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – As to partisan effect and FEC in-kind contribution theory] The EIP invited both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee to participate as “external stakeholders” in its Jira ticketing system – the mechanism through which suppression requests were submitted, routed, and tracked against platform action outcomes. The DNC

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DNC Participated in EIP Jira Ticketing System; RNC Declined (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – As to DNC participation and RNC non-participation] The EIP invited both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee to participate as “external stakeholders” in its Jira ticketing system – the mechanism through which suppression requests were submitted, routed, and tracked against platform action outcomes. The DNC accepted and

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