In yet another alarming chapter of the horror story that is our nation’s sprawling, unofficial censorship apparatus, Congressman Jim Jordan released a major GOP report on the government’s relationship with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a cabal of “disinformation researchers” led by the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO). The report’s focus on non-government organizations (NGOs) is crucially important. Given it is extremely unconstitutional for a government agency to inform Mark Zuckerberg what he needs to censor on his platform, the government’s censorship attempts have to be decentralized, with government opinions laundered through a middleman. This is where the EIP comes in, which filled the ‘neutral’ middle role throughout our 2020 election.

You can read the entire report here (be warned: it’s long as hell), or Congressman Jordan’s thread here (not exactly comprehensive).

But the crux of the GOP’s argument: unelected bureaucrats working for the Department of Homeland Security (specifically, CISA) actually requested the establishment of an NGO (the EIP) to flag “disinformation” for our social media giants. The NGO, in regular communication with the bureaucrats at both the DHS and (importantly, as this is their cover) the State Department, filed reports to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok on “disinformation,” including a mix of both actual disinformation and what we now know to be true information (but flavored Republican). Then, the EIP gave advice on how specifically to censor ‘malicious’ material, and, in many cases, the posters responsible. Online, various lists of Americans targeted by the Deep State have been produced. Alas, I have only been able to find abridged examples, and I regret to inform you I was not — to the best of my present knowledge — deemed worthy of targeting.