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 explicit directives to platforms regarding the President’s account, including EIP-668 (“we repeat our recommendation that this account be suspended for the duration of election day”) and EIP-673 (“suspending their ability to continue tweeting for 12 hours”). These directives establish documented federal agency involvement in the infrastructure that ultimately produced the suspension.
Citations
EIP Final Report: The Long Fuse: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tr171zs0069/EIP-Final-Report.pdf | Stanford Internet Observatory
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
Jira Ticket Dataset, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSbP06KE51ds51-Ha6MXkuyoWuCLW168Wz9CMBbhe1BV1IVLxG660eDBUpaVw_Hs5KdhvTvOLS7BUit/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false | Weaponization Committee in U.S. Congress
Twitter, An update following the riots in Washington, DC (Jan. 11, 2021) (“Since Friday, more than 70,000 accounts have been suspended as a result of our efforts”); see also BBC, Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts linked to QAnon (Jan. 12, 2021), https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55638558
Twitter Permanent Suspension Announcement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html | Twitter Blog
AP News on 70,000 QAnon Accounts: https://apnews.com/article/twitter-blocks-70k-qanon-accounts-171a5c9062be1c293169d764d3d0d9c8 | AP News