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

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 and disputed official characterizations of the election’s integrity. These posts were classified by EIP analysts as actionable “disinformation” under the EIP’s “Delegitimization of Election Results” category, which was documented by the House Judiciary Committee as the category most broadly applied to conservative and Republican political speech. The targeting of a congressional candidate’s campaign speech – speech that is core political expression under Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), and FEC v. Cruz, 142 S. Ct. 1638 (2022) – using a government-initiated and government-monitored academic intermediary raises the most serious First Amendment concerns documented in this investigation. The government may not suppress electoral speech based on its political content or its contribution to a “narrative” the government disfavors.