Cali pressured social media techs to censor 2020 election posts
Big Tech is working with the government to censor anyone who disagrees with the leftist narrative.
Judicial Watch announced today that it received 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing state officials pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about the 2020 election.
Judicial Watch noted that the California secretary of state’s office has targeted their content, falsely claiming it is misinformation. They demanded social media companies remove their videos.
“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.
Report: Big Tech Colluded With California Democrats To Censor Americans
Big Tech colluded with California Democrats to censor Americans posting about the 2020 election on social media, a new report from Judicial Watch states.
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, the California Secretary of State reportedly leveraged the state’s relationship with communications firm SKDK, which Judicial Watch noted “lists Biden for President as their top client of 2020,” to get videos and other social media posts the state deemed “misinformation” removed or flagged. Most of the time, the Big Tech companies lent ear to the “misinformation” concerns brought to them by the state and either removed the posts or applied contextual labels to them.
They’re classifying your “threat level,” taking screenshots of your posts, and censoring you. Thu Jan 7, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Report misinformation, a flier from California s Office of Election Cybersecurity blares. Social media users are urged to report misleading materials to the Secretary of State s office. A government office created by California Democrats is monitoring hashtags, classifying political speech it opposes by “threat level”, taking screenshots of posts, and then storing the information indefinitely, before reporting the offending speech to social media companies for censorship.
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The state worked with social media companies, created an internal database and developed threat levels to fight 2020 election misinformation.
One post on YouTube claimed a voter registered to vote under a fake name. A tweet alleged thousands of 2020 ballots were tossed out. Another tweet claimed a voter used an alias to vote in person.
These are just a few of two dozen social media posts deemed to be misinformation and removed from online platforms this year at the request of a newly formed cybersecurity team within the California Secretary of State’s office.
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 Dresne
By Freddy Brewster
CalMatters
One post on YouTube claimed a voter registered to vote under a fake name. A tweet alleged thousands of 2020 ballots were tossed out. Another tweet claimed a voter used an alias to vote in person.
These are just a few of two dozen social media posts deemed to be misinfor