Stanford Internet Observatory

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https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/news/new-emails-show-dhs-created-stanford-disinfo-group-that-censored-speech-before-2020-election/

When Stanford hired a former DNC staffer, it became a DNC cutout for government censorship. Many people were saying that between Stanford’s Internet Observatory and Kate Starbird’s UW project they were essentially creating pretexts for political censorship. Same thing with Newsguard.

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Let the winds of freedom blow*

 

* Not available in all areas, your mileage may vary, some limitations apply.

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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)

[Cornfed]

It truly stinks that Stanford had any connection to this effort.  The Stanford brand has been deeply damaged in recent years, whether those in charge are aware or not.

Here’s another take on this scandal.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/11/06/documents_shed_new_light_on_feds_collusion_with_private_actors_to_police_speech_on_social_media_990672.html

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A US government-funded group at Stanford said its work was "nonpartisan," but it wasn't. A newly released tranche of files, exclusive to Public, show that it demanded censorship of Republican elected officials, but not of Democrats, for making equivalent claims of election fraud pic.twitter.com/nYalz4BIAQ

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 16, 2023

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.@RepThomasMassie makes a great point:

If they can censor a Member of Congress, they can censor anyone.

See his full Q&A below 👇 pic.twitter.com/rffxpm9Tgu

— Weaponization Committee (@Weaponization) November 30, 2023

We now know that Rep. Massie is correct (and the study he cited was correct re: natural immunity). Yet the Coronavirus task force witness (advisor to Mike Pence, by the way) continued to double down that it was misinformation. Sad.

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