Judicial Watch’s claim is based on the 624 pages of records it received from the office of the Secretary of State of Iowa as a result of a June 2020 open records lawsuit. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit because the Secretary of State’s office refused to provide records and communications relating to the state’s voter registration rolls as requested by Judicial Watch.
“These records are yet another example of state officials conspiring with Big Tech to deny Americans their First Amendment rights,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
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Judicial Watch released records on April 27 proving that the California secretary of state, the Biden campaign, and Big Tech coordinated to censor some social media posts about the 2020 election.
“These records further show that Big Tech censorship is a government scandal: Iowa government officials worked with Facebook to remove posts they didn’t like, and Facebook bowed to this political pressure immediately. It should be disturbing to all Americans that government officials are working to censor speech they disagree with and that these behemoth companies often seem willing to roll over and censor free speech,” Fitton declared.
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Kevin Hall, communications director for the Iowa secretary of state, emailed Facebook official Rachel Holland on Feb. 3, 2020, requesting help with a Judicial Watch post they deemed false.
Holland responded that Facebook had “applied a filter over the content warning users before they click to see that the content has been rated false by independent fact-checkers.”
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Hall contacted Holland once again, saying, “They [Judicial Watch] have new posts up, doubling down on the false claims.”
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Holland responded that Facebook had “a full team with eyes on this now and are applying the false filter to similar articles as well.”
Hall also filed a report with Twitter to try to censor the same post. After Twitter declined to do so, Maria Benson, director of communications at the National Association of Secretaries of State, joined the effort and called on Kevin Kane from Twitter to take it down.
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Kane declined the request again, saying the post “is not in violation of our election integrity policy as it does not suppress voter turnout or mislead people about when, where, or how to vote.”
Benson then emailed Brian Scully, an official at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), asking him to report the issue to Twitter.
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Scully promised to contact Twitter. “Sorry … been out of pocket a bit. Will reach out to Twitter. Let me know if you get something.”
The post that Hall aimed to take down was a statement made by Judicial Watch that eight Iowa counties had registration rates of more than 100 percent of the voting-age population, based on data provided by Iowa to the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate and Judicial Watch sparred over the claim at the time.
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