The conclusions come after Judicial Watch got 540 pages and a further four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California in response to an open records appeal, the group announced.
It had filed the request after a December 2020 report surfaced showing that California’s Office of Election Cybersecurity had surveilled and ordered the social media giants to exclude or flag as “misleading” at least two dozen messages.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton announced that SKDKnickerbocker, a communications firm linked to President Joe Biden’s election campaign, was involved in the censoring of speech throughout last year’s election period.
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“These new documents suggest a conspiracy against the First Amendment rights of Americans by the California Secretary of State, the Biden campaign operation, and Big Tech,” Fitton announced.
He continued, “These documents blow up the big lie that Big Tech censorship is ‘private’—as the documents show collusion between a whole group of government officials in multiple states to suppress speech about election controversies.”
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Jenna Dresner, senior public information officer for the Office of Election Cybersecurity, responded to the December report at the time declaring that “we don’t take down posts, that is not our role to play.”
“We alert potential sources of misinformation to the social media companies and we let them make that call based on community standards they created,” Dresner stated.
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According to Judicial Watch, the documents it obtained reveal how officials forced big tech companies to censor social media posts.
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Google’s YouTube was contacted directly by a state official to take off a Judicial Watch video on the platform on Sept. 24, last year, according to the group.
“YouTube seemed to respond by deleting the video on September 27, 2020,” Judicial Watch announced.
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In another example, a Facebook user who implied having voted twice with multiple ballots had their post taken off on Oct. 31, 2020. Other posts removed by social media giants included allegations of voter fraud, receiving multiple ballots in the mail, and finding thousands of alleged unopened ballots in a dumpster.
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Meanwhile, a Twitter post from Fitton that stated “Mailing 51 million ballots to those who haven’t asked for increased risk of voter fraud of voter intimidation,” was flagged by SKDKnickerBocker as part of its “Misinformation Tracker.”
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Big Tech companies have drawn intense scrutiny for perceived political bias and claimed unbalanced moderation of users’ content. Critics say much of the companies’ moderation in the past year has unfairly targeted conservative speech and speech from individuals deemed to be supporters of former President Donald Trump.
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