“A ‘misinformation’ researcher’s testimony behind closed doors to Congress on his group’s supposed of speech before the 2020 election appears to contradict documents unearthed by lawmakers. Alex Stamos, who previously held senior roles at Facebook and Yahoo, was the director until 2023 at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a group at Stanford University under congressional investigation over it teaming up in 2020 on the Election Integrity Partnership, or EIP, with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. The EIP coordinated with the U.S. government, including the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to pressure social media companies on addressing ‘misinformation’ on platforms in the lead-up to the presidential election, according to internal emails and since-released Stanford data on the EIP’s Jira system used to flag alleged misinformation reports to platforms.”
“…on Nov. 4, 2020, a ticket was created in the Jira system by a staffer in Georgia’s Secretary of State office, data show. The system, by design, was intended to allow various stakeholders to offer insights on types of ‘misinformation’ worth addressing with platforms…The ticket appeared to be referring to CISA’s Countering Foreign Influence Task Force under the DHS. The cohort was led by Brian Scully and repeatedly flagged alleged misinformation to social media companies before and after election day on Nov. 3, 2020, according to emails obtained by America First Legal, a group suing Stamos, Brookie, Starbird, and others tied to the EIP and Stanford Virality Project.”
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