Lawmakers Investigate White House Ties to “Disinformation” Group

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NRB 8/11/2023

Lawmakers are seeking information from a “disinformation”-tracking activist group as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s ongoing investigations into the extent of executive branch collusion with third parties to limit and censor speech during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has written to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a British non-profit with a United States affiliate, to determine to what extent the U.S. federal government may have coordinated with the group to silence dissenting voices online.

Jordan writes, “Certain third parties, including organizations like yours, appear to have played a role in this censorship regime by advising the government and social media companies on so-called ‘misinformation’ and other types of content— sometimes with direct or indirect support or approval from the federal government.”

Jordan further asserts that “the Biden White House relied on CCDH’s report titled ‘The Disinformation Dozen,’ in its unconstitutional pressure campaign against social media platforms to censor those, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who CCDH maligned as ‘anti-vaxxers.’”

More: https://nrb.org/lawmakers-investigate-white-house-ties-to-disinformation-group/

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Elon Musk sues ‘hate speech’ watchdog over ‘false’ misinformation claims on X

Life Site 8/10/2023

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

•   One of the most influential instruments used to suppress the First Amendment right to free speech in the U.S. was the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s (CCDH) “Disinformation Dozen” report, published March 24, 2021.

•   The CCDH was a tiny, never-before-heard-of U.K.-based group with undisclosed funding, whose board members had unambiguous ties to the military-intelligence-industrial complex.

•   org, a simple news aggregator with no listed employees or funding, sponsored the report. The creator of AntiVaxWatch is Brandon Hill, cofounder of Be the Change, which connects it to Eric Kessler of Arabella Advisors, a large, well-known dark money network that supports progressive causes with untraceable funds.

•   In a June 1, 2023, report, the CCDH accused Twitter of failing to censor 99 percent of hate posted by Twitter Blue-subscribed accounts. According to Elon Musk, the CCDH’s claims are “false, misleading, or both, and they are not supported by anything that could credibly be called research.”

•   July 31, 2023, Twitter, now renamed X Corp, filed a lawsuit against the CCDH, arguing the CCDH is “actively working to prevent free expression” and spreading “troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and its digital advertising business specifically.” Musk also wants to know who funds the CCDH’s fabrications.

CCDH: An ‘astroturf front’ funded by dark money

My IT team was eventually able to trace the AntiVaxWatch website back to its creator, Brandon Hill, by scouring its XML page. Hill is the cofounder of a media company and self-proclaimed “intelligence agency” called Be the Change Revolutions, along with Amanda Hite, which in turn is connected to Eric Kessler of Arabella Advisors, a large, well-known dark money network that supports progressive causes with untraceable funds.

Incidentally, Kessler also has “direct access to Biden cabinet officials and plays an important role in shaping this administration’s agenda,” according to Americans for Public Trust (APT) executive director Caitlin Sutherland.

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/elon-musk-sues-hate-speech-watchdog-over-false-misinformation-claims-on-x/

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... The creator of AntiVaxWatch is Brandon Hill, cofounder of Be the Change, which connects it to Eric Kessler of Arabella Advisors, a large, well-known dark money network that supports progressive causes with untraceable funds.  ...

This group also funded the anti-Kavanaugh debacle and other leftist causes (just search this site - several threads mention them).

Lawsuit Unearths Link Between Dem Megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried, Parents, and Democratic Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors

https://twitter.com/FloppingAces/status/1704515287125733706