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 reduced public access to official findings that were simultaneously the subject of active legislative proceedings, impeding citizen engagement with the investigative record.
Citations
EIP Final Report: The Long Fuse: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tr171zs0069/EIP-Final-Report.pdf | Stanford Internet Observatory
“The EIP repeatedly used its fourth category, in particular, to justify the censorship of conservative political speech: the ‘Delegitimization of Election Results,’ defined as ‘content that delegitimizes election results on the basis of false or misleading claims.’” “EIP routinely flagged conservative content on social media under the guise that it was inappropriately ‘delegitimizing’ election results, even in cases where the content was factually accurate.” EIP coordinated directly with DHS/CISA and platforms; this created a “censorship laundering” effect that reduced visibility of flagged material. House Judiciary Committee & Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, The Weaponization of “Disinformation” Pseudo-Experts and the Jira Ticket System, Staff Report at 1–2 (Nov. 7, 2023), https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira-Ticket-Staff-Report-11-7-23-Clean.pdf