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Coordinated Suppression of Legal Allegations Concerning Philadelphia Election Procedures (PA)

Established Fact

EIP and CISA collaborated to label and suppress high-profile statements by attorney Harmeet Dhillon and former Speaker Newt Gingrich concerning alleged denial of lawful observation in Philadelphia and related election-law issues. Their public legal arguments, grounded in sworn declarations from Pennsylvania poll watchers, were categorized as “delegitimization” and “disinformation,” and flagged for platform moderation. This re-framing of live legal disputes as “misinformation” impeded public awareness of evidentiary claims that were simultaneously being raised in courts and legislative hearings.

Citations

Ticket Dataset, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSbP06KE51ds51-Ha6MXkuyoWuCLW168Wz9CMBbhe1BV1IVLxG660eDBUpaVw_Hs5KdhvTvOLS7BUit/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false | Weaponization Committee in U.S. Congress

The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election, https://www.eipartnership.net/report | Election Integrity Partnership

Censorship Industrial Complex: CensorshipIndustrialComplexWHReport_Appendix_part5.pdf.| Weaponization Committee in U.S. Congress

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.”)