Copies of communications between news reporters and the Biden DOJ, DHS and related entities show deliberate attempts to stall, block and hide public records requested by reporters.
They also show how the agencies tried to cover up and/or censor social media content, according to investigative journalist Lee Fang. Additionally, “The agency made a controversial push to censor social media during the 2020 election in partnership with several nonprofit groups,” Fang said in a Substack post.
“… [A] number of journalists and watchdog groups were beginning to investigate the DHS-CISA censorship apparatus. The requests differed in scope but all of them related to [Kate] Starbird’s work with CISA and its push to censor certain forms of speech on social media.”
Starbird is a computer science professor at the University of Washington (UW), “who runs a government-funded disinformation think tank at UW, serves on the CISA advisory panel tasked with helping the agency shape content moderation decisions at platforms such as Twitter and Facebook … [which] made a controversial push to censor social media during the 2020 election in partnership with several nonprofit groups,” Fang said.
“In response, the DOJ sought a delay to review any records released to the public and assess whether to take legal action in order to block some or all of the documents.”
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Substack Lee Fang June 6, 2023