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 in which only one political party’s operational arm was embedded as an active participant – created a directional bias in the suppression of election-related content during the most contested election in modern American history.
Citations
EIP, A Statement from the Election Integrity Partnership (Oct. 5, 2022), https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/a-statement-from-the-election-integrity-partnership (“Both the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee were invited to submit tickets. . . . The Republican National Committee was contacted on July 28, 2020. They did not respond to our inquiry and did not submit any referrals.”)
“The Democratic National Committee ended up sending four reports to the EIP.”; EIP Jira Ticket Report, at 38 (citing House Judiciary Committee, Transcribed Interview of Alex Stamos (June 23, 2023), at 8) (“While the EIP invited both the DNC and RNC, the RNC declined to respond. . . . The DNC not only accepted the invitation, but also submitted Jira tickets.”), 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.
EIP Statement, supra note 1 (describing the four DNC submissions: (1) a voting-by-mail claim that “received little traction and was closed without action”; (2) a Facebook political ad making “false claims about vote-by-mail fraud in an attempt to raise money,” which had already been disabled by Facebook and was referred to Facebook as such; (3) a list of “spammy content farms” most of which fell “outside the tight scope of the EIP” with no platform referrals made; and (4) a report that led EIP to discover “two linked Facebook pages attempting to mislead American voters using Facebook Ads,” one of which incorrectly claimed completed ballots had been thrown out — Facebook suspended that ad upon EIP notification).
EIP Jira Ticket Report, at 38 (citing Stamos Transcribed Interview at 8). The EIP’s Jira ticketing system was, per the Committee’s report, accessible during operation “only to select parties, including federal agencies, universities, and Big Tech.” Id. at 5. The DNC’s status as a submitting party within that system — alongside CISA, the Global Engagement Center, CIS, and state election officials — is confirmed by both the EIP’s own public disclosure and the Committee’s record of the Stamos testimony.