/1🚨BREAKING — Explosive new documents expose a massive government-backed censorship operation orchestrated by USAID, the Global Engagement Center, the UK government, and media firms to manipulate public discourse and silence Americans. pic.twitter.com/ScJJeYoFcJ
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/3 AFL obtained the documents through ongoing litigation against the U.S. Department of State’s GEC. pic.twitter.com/L4f8nl2fWk
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/5 However, through litigation, AFL exposed that the GEC promoted state-sponsored propaganda, using private media organizations to suppress American speech. https://t.co/o4i7CKtr3z
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/6 AFL’s litigation also revealed that USAID created an internal “Disinformation Primer,” explicitly praising private sector censorship strategies and recommending further censorship tactics. https://t.co/DJTgzLvnjO
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/8 GEC’s “Liaison Planner to USAID” told USAID that GEC wanted to “sustain dialogue and connectivity during these unprecedented times” to help counter “misinformation” surrounding COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/ppS33EUV1F
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/10 The records obtained by AFL show extensive coordination between GEC and several branches of USAID, including:
➡️ TF 2020-COVID 19
➡️ Digital Development
➡️ Asia Bureau ES Taskers
➡️ Asia Outreach
➡️ Conflict Prevention and Stabilization (CPS) Policy
➡️ CPS Africa pic.twitter.com/1icIqZCNAu
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/12 The House Small Business Committee found that Park Advisors received a GEC cooperative agreement award of more than $6 million. pic.twitter.com/AhbXT9suMx
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/14 An email from NewsGuard’s Matt Skibinski shows immediate coordination between Park Advisors, GEC, USAID, NSA, and DOD to use new artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to monitor “misinformation.” pic.twitter.com/XRbRDPLLzZ
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/16 Recall: NewsGuard is a key player in censorship enforcement.@FFO_Freedom has extensively detailed how, despite claims that it is a fair arbiter of truthfulness, NewsGuard censors speech by rating conservative sites with a low score and pressuring advertising companies to… pic.twitter.com/L2uckAP9k4
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/18 AFL has already revealed how Poynter funds a global false-flag operation of international “fact-checkers” that claim to be independent but are, in reality, a tightly woven network funded by Poynter and the GEC. https://t.co/p1JJkgaXsZ
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/20 AFL previously exposed coordination between other pro-censorship organizations and the U.S. and UK governments to censor American citizens’ speech. https://t.co/1W50KGztAx
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/22 AFL will continue fighting to expose government censorship and relentlessly defend the First Amendment.
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/23 Read more here:https://t.co/6BJSzCv6yn
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