Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked March 29, 2023
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
We now have proof that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) partnered with a censorship consortium called
the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to illegally censor Americans
During the 2020 election cycle, the EIP and CISA worked with the State Department’s
Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the DHS-backed Elections Infrastructure
Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to police political wrongthink on social
media
In February 2021, the EIP rebranded itself as the Virality Project, and went on to censor
COVID-19 narratives on behalf of the government, even when they knew it was true
The Virality Project targeted first-hand accounts of COVID jab injuries to prevent vaccine
hesitancy, and posts that expressed fears about vaccine passports because being
against vaccine passports was a “gateway to being anti-vax.” They also censored jokes
and satirical memes on the basis that they might “exacerbate distrust” in public health
officials, and made asking questions a punishable event because questioning is
“commonly used by spreaders of misinformation”
As bad as things are, they’re about to get a whole lot worse unless Congress puts a stop
to it. In the last three years, the U.S. government has granted more than 500 contracts
and/or grants aimed at tackling “misinformation.”
As detailed in “Propaganda and Censorship Dominate the Information War,” we now
have proof, courtesy of the Twitter Files, that the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) partnered with
a censorship consortium called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to censor
Americans.
In an Atlantic Council interview, EIP head Alex Stamos also admitted that the
partnership between the EIP and the DHS was set up to outsource censorship that the
government could not do due to “lack of legal authorization.”
Stamos, a former chief of security at Facebook, is also director of the Stanford Internet
Observatory — one of the four organizations that make up the EIP — and is a partner in
the cyber consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group together with former CISA director Chris
Krebs.
Virality Project Is EIP Rebranded
During the 2020 election cycle, the EIP and CISA worked with the State Department’s
Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the DHS-backed Elections Infrastructure
Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to police political wrongthink on social
media. The EIP coordinated the take-down of undesirable content using a real-time chat
app that the DHS, EIP and social media companies all share.
In February 2021, the EIP rebranded itself as the Virality Project, and went on to censor
COVID-19 narratives on behalf of the government in the same way the EIP censored
election narratives on behalf of the political Left.
The Department of Defense is also focused on research involving AI and tech that can
monitor internet conversations and deploy countermeasures before wrongthink goes
viral. Congress must defund all of these programs, as well as any agency department or
team involved in censoring Americans.