Censorship Policy

EIP-713 Federal Government Censorship Before “Factcheck” (PA)

Established Fact The internal logs for Jira ticket EIP-713 reveal a clear timeline showing that Twitter was tagged for action 20 minutes before the incident was officially fact-checked: At 2:51 PM on November 3, 2020, the EIP team escalated the issue, explicitly stating, “We are sending this to you quickly as we likely won’t be […]

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Targeting of Sitting Georgia Legislators’ Core Political Speech (GA)

Established Fact The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), operating at CISA’s request, tracked and categorized core political speech from Georgia Rep. Jody Hice and then-candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene about Georgia’s 2020 election administration as “delegitimization” and actionable “disinformation.” These tickets were routed through the EIP pipeline to platforms, with the practical effect of suppressing or downgrading

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Suppression of Citizen Dissent via State-Federal Influence Network (AZ)

Established Fact The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office under Katie Hobbs submitted a private citizen’s Facebook post, which stated that the incumbent president had already won Arizona, to the CISA/EIP tipline, resulting in coordinated removal of the domestic political speech by platforms. EIP and government partners also classified allegations regarding Sharpie use in Maricopa County

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Global Engagement Center Statutory Overreach into Domestic Speech Control (US)

Established Fact The State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) – an entity statutorily constrained to countering foreign propaganda and disinformation – submitted Jira tickets to the EIP infrastructure targeting domestic American speech. This integration of a foreign-intelligence apparatus into domestic speech control represents a violation of the GEC’s statutory mandate and potentially the Smith-Mundt Modernization

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DNC Asymmetric Participation in EIP Jira Ticketing System (US)

Established Fact While both the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) were invited to participate in the EIP’s Jira censorship ticketing system, the RNC declined participation and the DNC accepted, actively submitting content-flagging tickets through the same system used by federal agencies. This structural asymmetry – a nominally nonpartisan, government-initiated censorship architecture

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Permanent Deplatforming of the Sitting President and 70,000+ Accounts (US)

Established Fact The federal censorship infrastructure, operating through CISA-EIP-platform coordination, succeeded in contributing to the permanent deplatforming of the sitting President of the United States on January 8, 2021 – two weeks before the end of his term – as well as the suspension of more than 70,000 accounts. EIP Jira tickets had repeatedly issued

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Suppression of Gableman Investigation Reporting and OSC Findings (WI)

Reasonable Inference Content summarizing or linking to the findings of Special Counsel Michael Gableman’s legislative investigation into Wisconsin’s 2020 election – including documented findings regarding CTCL-embedded private operatives and WisVote database access – was targeted for labeling by EIP-affiliated monitoring systems under the “election integrity delegitimization” category. This suppression of a formal, legislature-commissioned investigative report

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Suppression of Verified Local News Reporting – Absentee Ballots Found in Ditch (WI)

Established Fact The EIP engaged in a rapid-response campaign to mitigate the digital reach of factual, local news reporting from WBAY Wisconsin regarding absentee ballots discovered dumped in a ditch in Greenville, Outagamie County. The incident was categorized as a “mail dumping narrative” to be suppressed. The content being suppressed was a local news broadcast

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Suppression of Jesse Morgan Postal Testimony (PA)

Established Fact Following USPS contractor driver Jesse Morgan’s public account of transporting what he described as a large load of completed ballots from Bethpage, New York, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, social media posts amplifying Morgan’s account were routed through the EIP censorship pipeline for labeling and reduction in platform visibility. Morgan had submitted a sworn statement

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EIP Demand to Suppress Election Observer Documentation – EIP-614 (PA)

Established Fact EIP Director Alex Stamos personally emailed Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook demanding the suppression of posts by Republican official Harmeet Dhillon and others documenting alleged legal violations at Philadelphia-area polling locations (EIP-614). The EIP requested that platforms “at least label” the legal observation claims to diminish their visibility. The content at issue consisted of

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