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Libertarian Institute, November 14, 2022<\/h3>\n

Did Federal Censors Swing the 2020 Election?<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span> | Nov 14, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Did the Russiagate conspiracy entitle the federal government to censor Americans forever? Did federal shenanigans swing the 2020 election? A new report reveals how a new federal agency and federal grantees exploited a 2016 scam to launch the greatest covert censorship campaign in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

In 2016, top FBI officials and the Obama administration fueled a conspiracy that the Trump presidential campaign was colluding with the Russian government. Numerous false FBI claims spurred a massive wiretapping operation approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The allegations led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who spent two years investigating before admitting that there was nothing to prosecute for his primary charge. But by that point, Trump had been irredeemably tainted and the Democrats had exploited the controversy to capture control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Russiagate, Congress created a new federal agency in 2018\u2014the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CISA was purportedly intended to fight foreign threats to election security and U.S. infrastructure. But the agency quickly shifted its target to American citizens. As a report last week from the Foundation for Freedom Online<\/a> (FFO) revealed, \u201cAny U.S. citizen posting what DHS considered misinformation\u2019 online was suddenly conducting a cyber attack against US critical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

CISA and DHS realized that they could not directly muzzle Americans so they colluded with a number of federal grantees who comprised the Election Integrity Project, a coalition formed in mid-2020. The result was \u201ccensorship by proxy,\u201d as law professor Jonathan Turley observed, bludgeoning social media companies into submission. The DHS-spurred crackdown in 2020 resulted in the suppression of \u201c22 million tweets labeled \u2018misinformation\u2019 on Twitter\u201d and \u201chundreds of millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets impacted\u201d thanks to changes that would not have occurred without \u201c\u2018huge regulatory pressure\u2019 from government,\u201d FFO reported.<\/p>\n

Once the government claims a prerogative to censor \u201cmisinformation,\u201d the definition of misinformation mushrooms to serve political purposes. The Election Integrity Partnership bragged about how social media posts were targeted that were merely purportedly guilty of offenses such as \u201cexaggerate issue,\u201d \u201cmisleading stats\u201d and \u201cout of context.\u201d<\/strong> Many of those alleged factual infractions were piddling compared to the sweeping falsehoods continually uncorked by presidential candidates Trump and Biden.<\/p>\n

Prior to the 2020 election, \u201cthe censorship focus was always and consistently foremost targeted at speech casting doubt on mail-in ballots,\u201d FFO reported. Democrats exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to push through electoral changes that opened the floodgates to unverified mail-in ballots. Some states like Michigan sent absentee ballots to all voters, violating the Election Clause of the Constitution (which specifies that state legislatures make the rules for federal elections).<\/p>\n

Election regimes that scrutinized mail-in ballots routinely had a high rejection rate.\u00a0 New York City relied on mail-in ballots for a June 2020 primary that the New York Daily News<\/em> derided as a \u201cdumpster fire.\u201d Up to 20% of ballots \u201cwere declared invalid before even being opened, based on mistakes with their exterior envelopes,\u201d The Washington Post<\/em> noted, thanks largely to missing postmarks or signatures. Trump claimed that the shift to mail-in ballots could result in \u201cthe most corrupt vote in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

But federal string-pulling minimized controversies. FFO noted, \u201cPre-censoring U.S. citizen debate about mail-in ballots five months before an election has the impact of devastating the ability of concerned citizens to pressure their state representatives to take legal action on changing voting procedures.\u201d Rather than the traditional scrutiny for mail-in ballots, many locales defaulted to accepting practically any piece of paper with a mark. Mail-in ballots determined the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump received more votes on Election Day but 43,000 mail-in ballots in three states sealed Biden\u2019s victory\u2014a minuscule portion of the tens of millions of mail-in votes he received.<\/p>\n

In a July 28, 2020 article for the American Institute for Economic Research<\/a>, I warned that the controversies over mail-in ballots could lead to \u201cthe death of political legitimacy\u2026Deep State federal agencies are a Godzilla that have established their prerogative to undermine if not overturn election results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until I read the new FFO report, I did not realize that \u201cthe biggest category for [2020] censorship was\u00a0 \u2018delegitimization\u2019\u2026defined to mean any speech that \u2018casts doubt\u2019 on any kind of election process, outcome or integrity issues [which] made all conservative and populist criticism of the administration of the election pre-banned at the narrative level, five months in advance of Election Day.\u201d Damn, no wonder that article of mine got so little traction on Twitter and Facebook! \u201cDelegitimization\u201d resulted in \u201c72% of its censorship tickets and targeted over 99% of the posts throttled by narrative during the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entire process looks like a Monty Python parody of democracy. As Mike Benz, the former State Department official who heads FFO, observed, \u201cThe same obscure DHS subagency tasked with election security also gained the power to censor any questions about election security.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

How much impact did federal censorship and suppression have on the most recent elections? The Election Integrity Project browbeat tech companies to accept that \u201cthat social media posts about the 2022 elections be censorable under a low bar of simply \u2018misleading,\u2019\u201d according to FFO. For the midterm elections, \u201cthe Election Integrity Project is tightly monitoring and working to censor \u2018discussions surrounding the delays in counting ballots\u2019 being \u2018framed as fraud,\u2019\u201d FFO reported. Damned convenient considering the debacle in Arizona\u2014which was foreseen if not foreordained. In a Washington speech just before the election, President Biden told listeners that \u201cin some cases we won\u2019t know the winner\u2026until a few days after the election. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner.\u201d Biden stressed that citizens must be \u201cpatient. That\u2019s how this is supposed to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it never consistently worked that way before in American history. Arizona\u2019s voting machines dismally failed on Election Day and Democrats are vehemently resisting<\/a> a hand recount of all ballots.<\/p>\n

The real goal is to control Americans\u2019 minds\u2014and not just on Election Day<\/strong>. Jen Easterly, the NSA honcho who Biden chose to run CISA, declared that \u201cthe most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation\u2026is incredibly important.\u201d And the most important cognitive \u201cfix\u201d is to train Americans to never doubt Uncle Sam<\/strong>. In a March 2022 meeting with top Twitter executives, FBI official Laura Dehmlow \u201cwarned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government,\u201d The Intercept<\/a> recently reported. The FBI has 80 agents on a task force to curb \u201csubversive data utilized to drive a wedge between the populace and the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDisinformation\u201d is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods. If the feds can censor most if not almost all of their online critics, their cons become almost irrefutable. Perhaps that is the only way that many federal policies can retain any shard of legitimacy<\/strong>. As Mike Benz warns, \u201cDHS is carrying out an official state policy that if public trust<\/a> is not earned, it must be installed.\u201d That is a recipe for the death of democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17734,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions\/17734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}