Federal Gov’t Outsourced Censorship to Private Orgs that Later Received Federal Grants: Report

The federal government outsourced “misinformation” censorship efforts before and after the 2020 election to four private entities that received millions of dollars’ worth of federal grants.

Documentation newly released by Just the News revealed that the Homeland Security (DHS) and State departments worked with four private groups to censor alleged election-related “misinformation” before, during and after the 2020 election. This included social media posts, blog posts, and URLs for social media platforms. The censorship of the “Election Integrity Partnership [EIP]” was reportedly aimed at preventing election scandals from going viral and catching the eyes of important media outlets and reporters, stopping “disinformation before it went viral and during viral outbreaks.”

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) was one of the entities designated by the government as allowed to file “tickets” requesting censorship to flag online content and bring it to platforms’ attention, Just the News reported.  Left-leaning Common Cause and NAACP were also allowed to flag content. Since the same privilege was apparently not accorded the Republican National Committee, this would seem to have been a blatantly partisan censorship effort.