Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020 - Kotaku In Action 2

Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020 (justthenews.com)

posted 2 years ago by Gazerbeam 2 years ago by Gazerbeam +45 / -1

Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020

Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.

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– Gazerbeam [S] 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

Quick summary. The four members of the Election Integrity Partnership:

Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO)
the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public
the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab
social media analytics firm Graphika.

The EIP set up a service to allow these groups to demand that social media posts be taken down:

Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (funded by DHS)
State Department's Global Engagement Center
The Democratic National Committee
Common Cause
the NAACP

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– APDSmith 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

True enough, but I don't want "moral" companies stamping their own version of corporate ethics onto the entire population. I expect corporations to be amoral, held in check only by the law.

I expect amoral corporations to be held accountable to the law that the government writes.

I expect the government to be held accountable by it's electorate. The electorate's control starts there.

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