The U.S. Government invited the U.K. Counter Disinformation Unit to a high level meeting in summer 2021 to gain tips on how to censor the public, new documents obtained by America First Legal reveal. Here’s an excerpt.
Today, America First Legal released new documents exclusively obtained in its litigation against the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). AFL obtained the slide deck used in a presentation by the United Kingdom’s “Counter Disinformation Unit” to the Biden-Harris National Security Council (NSC) Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) on August 10th 2021. This release comes on the heels of calls from House Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman, Nancy Mace, to ensure that the 2024 election is protected from the deep state censorship that was prevalent in the 2020 election.
As a part of the NSC’s regular interagency meetings on censoring Covid-related speech in the United States, the White House hosted the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) from the U.K. Government in 2021 to learn about its most effective censorship techniques. Some of the U.K.’s recommendations to the Biden-Harris Administration included:
- Establishing a dedicated unit to lead Government-wide censorship efforts;
- Enacting legislation for the Government to regulate the misinformation and disinformation policies of tech companies, and punish them if they refuse to comply with Government censorship demands;
- Create and maintain partnerships with companies to ‘flag’ disfavoured content;
- Use the foreign policy apparatus to coordinate this shared agenda between aligned governments and multilateral institutions;
- Leverage its control over social media to “counter disinformation” and promote Leftist dogma.
This meeting was attended by high-level staff from the White House, the NSC, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Departments of State, Treasury, Defence (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Agencies for International Development (USAID) and Global Media (USAGM), as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
At this meeting, the CDU outlined how it has been censoring the British public, and these documents expose how Left-wing authoritarian governments across the globe are working together to attack free speech.
During the censorship meeting, the Biden-Harris NSC invited the British Government to share its censorship playbook. It recommended creating a dedicated hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts, passing legislation to enable the government to coerce social media companies and enlisting the Department of State to partner with foreign allies and multilateral institutions to coordinate the global censorship agenda.
Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Executive Director, said:
With no apparent appreciation for the irony that the First Amendment to our Constitution was adopted following our independence from Great Britain, these records show that the Biden-Harris regime apparently engaged with representatives from the United Kingdom on ways to more effectively censor the speech of Americans across the country. The Biden-Harris Administration’s desire to silence speech and control what information Americans are able to obtain is so extreme, so pervasive and so over-the-top that it is willing to listen to foreign governments explain ways to better violate core constitutional rights of the American people. Freedom of speech is essential to the success of our democratic republic, and for the continued betterment of humanity.
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