Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Documents Show CA State Officials Coordinated with Big Tech to Censor Americans' Election Posts

Of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing how state officials pressured social media companies requests to the Office of the California Secretary of State for records related to the Office of Election Cybersecurity's database of social media posts; communications with social media companies; and other social media related records regarding the 2020 elections.

The Office of Election Cybersecurity in the California Secretary of State's office monitored and tracked social media posts, decided if they were misinformation, stored the posts in an internal database coded by threat level, and on 31 different occasions requested posts be removed.

In 24 cases, the social media companies agreed and either took down the posts or flagged them as misinformation, according to Jenna Dresner, senior public information officer for the Office of Election Cybersecurity.

Did CISA, Facebook, or any other partners provide guidance on how to spot and define misinformation? If someone has their posts in the Misinformation Tracker, are there plans to contact those individuals and is there a way for them to petition the state to delete them?

On August 22, 2019, Maria Benson, director of communications for the National Association of Secretaries of State emails the communications directors for Secretaries of State offices that Twitter confirmed that they streamlined their process for government officials to report "Misinformation:".

"These new documents suggest a conspiracy against the First Amendment rights of Americans by the California Secretary of State, the Biden campaign operation, and Big Tech," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

"These documents blow up the big lie that Big Tech censorship is 'private' - as the documents show collusion between a whole group of government officials in multiple states to suppress speech about election controversies.
 

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/ca-state-officials-big-tech/ 

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