ANALYSIS โ Even as Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) publicly shuttered its stillborn โDisinformation Governance Board' (aka Ministry of Truth) after a huge outcry, new evidence shows that Team Biden is still trying to use DHS to collude with Big Tech to censor Americans on socialย media.
The latest information uncovered through an investigation by The Intercept points to aย Facebook-designed portal that government officials could use to flag content they deem objectionable and request that the platform remove it.ย (RELATED: Facebook Experiences Massive Outage Day After Bombshell Report)
According to The Intercept:
There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the โcontent request systemโ at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
That the federal government believes it can directly help control what views and news can be disseminated online is beyond reprehensible. (RELATED: Ex-NFL Player Unveils Unforgettable Political Ad)
As The Intercept notes:
How disinformation is defined by the government has not been clearly articulated, and the inherently subjective nature of what constitutes disinformation provides a broad opening for DHS officials to make politically motivated determinations about what constitutes dangerous speech.
In other words, governments don't decide what is valid information and what isn't.
Instead, that is what politics, a free media and the marketplace of ideas are for.
But Big Brother, especially under Democrats, is relentless in its appetite for control.ย (RELATED: Congressional Leaders Expose Scheme to Pump Liberal Misinformation Network Into Classrooms)
The Intercept continues to describe this Orwellian effort:
Key Takeaways
* The work is primarily done by CISA, a DHS sub-agency tasked with protecting critical national infrastructure.
* DHS, the FBI, and several media entities are having biweekly meetings as recently as August.
* DHS considered countering disinformation relating to content that undermines trust in financial systems and courts.
* The FBI agent who primed social media platforms to take down the Hunter Biden laptop story continued to have a role in DHS policy discussions.
And all this has been corroborated by official documentation and other news reporting.
Earlier, NewsBustersย reportedย that:
DHS continued its counter-โdisinformationโ work in a more cloaked fashion, and that the government specifically intended to target certain content areas including COVID-19, election security and โdomestic violent extremism.โ
Considering how much โaccepted' information about COVID was later proven false or questionable and how the FBI and DOJ have been falsely hyping the otherwise minor โdomestic violent extremism' threat, this effort is highly concerning.
Meanwhile, a DHS Office of Inspector Generalย reportย recommended that DHS โdevelop a unified strategy to counter disinformation campaigns that appear in social media.โ
All this portends an extremely dangerous trend that must be stopped in its tracks.ย
It is critical that a GOP-controlled Congress investigate and help dismantle all these insidious DHS โdisinformation' efforts as soon as possible.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
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Since the MSM and most social media is all part of the democrat party, there should be no surprise to anyone that they all want to control what the rest of use see and hear. If it’s all positive then the rest of America will think the dems are doing good. We so badly need to purge all democrats from our government while we still have that chance. If they keep control of our government they will destroy our republic and install their version of a socialist government with them in control.
Enjoy the fire and brimstone Dunce!
Social media conspire with the US government to deny rights in violation of the law:
42U.S.Codeยง1983-Civil action for deprivation of rights
18U.S.Codeยง241-Conspiracy against rights
18U.S.Codeยง242-Deprivation of rights under color of law