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Twitter and Facebook Had Regular Meetings with DHS on Censoring Americans

Executives from Facebook and Twitter, including the recently-fired head of trust & safety Vijaya Gadde, held regular meetings with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss censorship on a wide range of topics, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, coronavirus, and “racial justice,” according to leaked documents.

The information came to light via leaks to the Intercept, as well as documents and minutes revealed through Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s lawsuit filed against the Biden Administration that alleges government collusion with Big Tech to suppress Americans’ First Amendment rights.
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There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
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In June, the same DHS advisory committee of CISA — which includes Twitter head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde and University of Washington professor Kate Starbird — drafted a report to the CISA director calling for an expansive role for the agency in shaping the “information ecosystem.” The report called on the agency to closely monitor “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources.” They argued that the agency needed to take steps to halt the “spread of false and misleading information,” with a focus on information that undermines “key democratic institutions, such as the courts, or by other sectors such as the financial system, or public health measures.”

FBI agent Laura Dehmlow was in communications w Facebook that led to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was “disinfo.” This year, she met w/ Twitter/DHS to stress “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
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In the runup to the 2020 election, the consortium created a system whereby state actors including the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department could file “tickets” alongside news stories, flagging them so that Big Tech platforms could subsequently suppress or attach warning labels to them.

Socialist Lula Beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s Closest Presidential Election in Decades

The top electoral authority in Brazil announced on Sunday evening that 77-year-old hardline socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once convicted and sentenced to over two decades in prison for alleged corruption, had won this year’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro.

In his first words as president-elect for a third term, Lula vowed to “reconstruct the very soul of this nation” away from the small government, pro-freedom ideals of the Bolsonaro administration.

Little more than a percentage point separated Lula, who served as president previously from 2003 to 2011, from Bolsonaro, as of 10 p.m. ET, representing about 2 million votes in a nation of 214 million people. National newspaper of record O Globo described the results as the closest election since 1989, when Lula narrowly lost to Fernando Collor de Mello, who was impeached and ousted from office over corruption allegations in 1992. Collor later supported the impeachment ouster of Lula’s protege, Dilma Rousseff, in 2016, also prompted by corruption allegations – kicking off the series of events that ultimately led to Bolsonaro’s 2018 victory.
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With 99 percent of votes counted, Lula received 50.9 percent of the vote, or about 60.3 million votes. Bolsonaro received 49.1 percent, or 58.2 million votes. The top election authority the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), counted 20.58 percent (32.2 million votes) were “abstentions,” meaning the voter did not make it to the polls.

Lula’s high turnout in the northeast – the country’s poorest region and his traditional stronghold, made it possible to defeat Bolsonaro despite the conservative triumphing in the nation’s largest metropolises of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Bolsonaro enjoyed his highest support in the Venezuelan border region of Roraima, now heavily populated with socialist refugees, and in the inland state of Rondonia.

So Brazilians hate freedom!?

Supreme Court Refuses to Toss Out Lawsuits Against Turkey Over Injuries at US Protest

The Supreme Court turned away a request by Ankara to throw out lawsuits filed by protesters who say they were injured by Turkish agents outside its ambassador’s home in Washington during a 2017 protest against visiting President Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkey argued unsuccessfully that allowing the lawsuits to proceed would endanger both Turkish and U.S. officials outside their home countries.

The lawsuits came out of a May 6, 2017, incident in which Turkish security forces clashed with demonstrators who were protesting a visit by Erdogan, an authoritarian who is turning his country away from its traditional secularism.
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The Biden administration had urged the Supreme Court to refuse to hear Turkey’s request to halt the lawsuits.

Erdogan was in the nation’s capital in 2017 for a visit with then-President Donald Trump. The physical conflict put a strain on relations between Turkey and the United States.

Pelosi Attacker’s Ex Described Him As Having Similar, ‘Progressive’ Views to Her Own

Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, a pro-nudity activist who was convicted of attempted kidnapping of a child and former romantic partner of Paul Pelosi attack suspect David DePape, described her ex as having similar political stances to her own, “progressive” views.

“Did he ever show any aggression towards politicians, were his political beliefs extreme in your opinion?” Taub was asked by Tara Campbell of ABC 7. “Well when I met him, he was only 20 years old ,and he didn’t have any experience in politics, and he was very much in alignment with my views and I’ve always been very progressive,” Taub replied. “I absolutely admire Nancy Pelosi,” she said, adding that she wished the house speaker’s husband well.

Taub told ABC7 that she met DePape 20 years ago. Together they raised their two sons and a daughter before separating about seven years ago.

DePape and Taub raised children in their Berkely home as the couple actively participated in a series of pro-public nudity demonstrations from 2011-2013.
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Ryan La Coste, one of Taub and DePape’s neighbors, said that the pair would often disturb neighbors with frequent public nudity around minors and other odd behavior. ‘Before Gypsy got locked up, there were sex dolls drying on the back of their porch that I’m assuming she bought for her sons,’ La Coste said, according to a SubStack article from Michael Shellenberger.

Photos of the home in which a broken-down school bus and a “Black Lives Matter” sign have gone been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media. While Taub told ABC 7 that the couple split seven years ago, a neighbor said that DePape was living in the broken-down school bus as recently as this year.

 So how the hell did leftist media claim that the alleged attacker was a MAGA supporter?