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America First Legal ("AFL") filed a new complaint with the US Department of Justice ("DOJ") today, alleging the UK-based "Center for Countering Digital Hate" ("CCDH") is leveraging connections to the Biden-Harris Administration in order to "illegally engage in an influence campaign to stop free speech in the U.S."
AFL formally requested that the DOJ open an investigation based on new evidence it has obtained into whether CCDH’s U.S. operation and leadership team are “agents of a foreign principal” that must comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
It seems that CCDH shares office space in London with a think tank that met with Kamala's campaign and has long promoted unconstitutional censorship of social media.
CCDH has been described as “[a] cut-out engaged in brazen smearing, attacking of dissenting views, deplatforming, censoring and pro-active shrinkage of the Overton window [by] strategically conflating serious voices with the fringes, mixing them together to isolate genuine actors and squash dissent” according to AFL.
Simon Clark, the Chair of the CCDH Board, served as a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab.
Coincidentally, AFL previously accused the Atlantic Council of colluding with entities involved in the so-called “Election Integrity Partnership” and “Virality Project” in order to "conspire with the federal government and censor speech on social media."
In fact, AFL filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Council in May 2023 over this allegation.
It seems that back on March 24, 2021, the CCDH had published a report labeling a group powerful covid lockdown critics as “the Disinformation Dozen” and called for their accounts, including RFK Jr.'s account, to be de-platformed.
After that report came out, 12 democrat attorneys general sent a letter the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook seeking to censor the views of Americans based on the CCDH report.
Coincidentally, the client of another CCDH board member, Zack Morgenroth, spoke at the White House on July 14, 2021, to pressure young people to receive the COVID-19 shot.
The very next day Jen Psaki announced the Biden-Harris Admin was "flagging problematic posts for Facebook."
Then in September 2022, CCDH met directly with White House officials, the National Safety Council, and the Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) to brief them on CCDH’s latest research.
And in March 2023, the White House published an “Initial Blueprint for the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse,” which reflected CCDH research and policy recommendations.
AFL's investigation into CCDH has now revealed that on March 16, 2021, Rowan Kane, Counselor to the Connecticut Attorney General and Deputy Director of Policy, had circulated an early draft of the AG's group letter that mentioned the CCDH report -- one day before the CCDH report would be published.
"The evidence suggests that CCDH provided a non-public version of its report to the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office before its final publication and potentially coordinated with that office in drafting the letter," alleges AFL.
You can read the full thread here:
/1🚨🗣️UK-based "Center for Countering Digital Hate" is leveraging its connections to the Biden-Harris Admin to illegally engage in an influence campaign to stop free speech in the U.S.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) October 31, 2024
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