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> SIO participated in the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and the Virality Project (VP), along with other organizations, in an effort to limit online misin
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
> SIO participated in the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and the Virality Project (VP), along with other organizations, in an effort to limit online misinformation. Those efforts made it the target of legal groups like America First Legal, which sued SIO and those involved last November claiming [PDF] that the EIP, as a public-private partnership, violates First Amendment free speech rights.
There's really no one doing more basic simple heavily-bipartisan work to directly safeguard democracy than the Election Integrity Project. Highly under-praised under-known organization that's gone to the highest levels of patriotism possible, at the most important intersection.
Watching partners come under enormously financially-draining legal assault by an array of bottom dwellers is so disgusting.
Telling America that free speech means we can't even monitor what's happening, can't see, that we have to live in a propognadizing dark forest is some crazy authoritarian shit. Society should have some right and ability to try to see where messages are coming from and to assess their trustworthiness. Meanwhile Twitter & these GOP factions push us to a darker darker web.
- rufus_foreman 2y ago>> There's really no one doing more basic simple heavily-bipartisan work to directly safeguard democracy than the Election Integrity Project Who are some of the Republicans that are involved with the Election Integrity Project?
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoApologies, I was conflating EIP and another effort between chamber of commerce and AFL-CIO, written up here. https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ EIP is specifically non partisan. My mistake for conflating the two.
- horns4lyfe 2y agoAre you suggesting Twitter wasn’t pushing towards a darker web when it was working at the behest of the CIA?
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoRejecting the premise: it's paranoid delusional madness to regard keeping communication channels to keep the nation somewhat secure from foreign attack & disinformation open as "working at the behest of the CIA." There should be communication between the CIA and major social networks, obviously.