Information Control

The Silent Architecture of Digital Vote Manipulation (US)

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Established Fact In this testimony before Congress, Dr. Robert Epstein warns that Big Tech companies like Google pose a monumental threat to democratic integrity through hidden psychological influence. His research highlights the search engine manipulation effect, a phenomenon where biased algorithms can silently shift the preferences of undecided voters without leaving a visual trail. Epstein […]

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MI SoS Refuses to testify before the MI House Oversight Committee citing “debunked conspiracy theories” (MI)

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Reasonable Inference Concerted efforts on behalf of MI officials to dismiss any concerns with the integrity of the 2020 election as “conspiracy theories”. Benson’s letter characterized the committee’s activities as allowing a witness to “spout false and baseless accusations against Michigan public servants — including more than 1,600 election clerks and tens of thousands of

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FBI “Operation Arctic Frost” and Convergence with EIP Targeting (US)

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Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Strategic convergence with EIP lists] The FBI opened “Operation Arctic Frost,” a multi-agency investigation into pro-Trump organizations and individuals, ultimately subpoenaing or interviewing scores of Republican entities and figures. A 2025 Senate oversight letter and a 2024 institutional-governance analysis both document that the set of groups targeted by Arctic Frost

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FBI “Operation Arctic Frost” Targeting (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Existence and scope of Arctic Frost] The FBI opened “Operation Arctic Frost,” a multi-agency investigation into pro-Trump organizations and individuals, ultimately subpoenaing or interviewing scores of Republican entities and figures. A 2025 Senate oversight letter and a 2024 institutional-governance analysis both document that the set of groups targeted by Arctic

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DHS/CISA-GEC-EIP Convergence and the Hunter Biden Laptop Narrative (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Timing and coordination] On October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published the Hunter Biden laptop story, DHS/CISA recommended that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) – an entity statutorily aimed at foreign propaganda – contact EIP and integrate its efforts into the 2020 “election misinformation” workflow.

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Illegal DHS/CISA-GEC-EIP Hunter Biden Laptop Narrative Coordination (US)

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Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Legal characterization] On October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published the Hunter Biden laptop story, DHS/CISA recommended that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) – an entity statutorily aimed at foreign propaganda – contact EIP and integrate its efforts into the 2020 “election misinformation” workflow. On

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Implementation of Transition Integrity Project (TIP) “Election Crisis” Actions (US)

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Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – As to intent to operationalize] The Transition Integrity Project, a pre-election “war game” convening former officials and operatives, ran scenarios that explicitly contemplated using coordinated media narratives, orchestrated street protests, and elite pressure on state officials to secure a desired outcome if President Trump contested the results. The TIP report

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Transition Integrity Project (TIP) “Election Crisis” Simulations (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – As to the content of TIP planning documents] The Transition Integrity Project, a pre-election “war game” convening former officials and operatives, ran scenarios that explicitly contemplated using coordinated media narratives, orchestrated street protests, and elite pressure on state officials to secure a desired outcome if President Trump contested the results.

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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)

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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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