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Targeting of Sitting Georgia Legislators’ Core Political Speech (GA)

Established Fact

The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), operating at CISA’s request, tracked and categorized core political speech from Georgia Rep. Jody Hice and then-candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene about Georgia’s 2020 election administration as “delegitimization” and actionable “disinformation.” These tickets were routed through the EIP pipeline to platforms, with the practical effect of suppressing or downgrading statements by elected officials and candidates about their own state’s election procedures during an active contest.

Citations

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

US government partnered with universities on election censorship: House GOP report: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2569223/us-government-partnered-with-universities-on-election-censorship-house-gop-report/ | Washington Examiner