In 2020, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), along with writers at The Federalist, had their social media posts flagged, suppressed, and even censored by a government-nonprofit-industry taskforce supposedly designed to combat election “misinformation” from foreign powers.
Instead, this unconstitutional effort, which was started under the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, almost exclusively targeted conservatives, rarely the left, and almost never Russia, China, or other hostile powers. Shockingly, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and Stanford Internet Observatory’s Election Integrity Project (EIP) — the former a government agency, the latter funded by the government — both asked Twitter to remove a tweet by President Donald Trump.
In my own case, my government — which exists to secure liberty — supported a system that took in a ticket from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) about a policy paper I authored on the weaknesses of mail-in balloting. TPPF posted my paper on Facebook and Twitter a month before the 2020 election, noting, “Voting by mail has become increasingly popular in Texas, but it has serious shortcomings that make it vulnerable to fraud while putting legitimate ballots at risk.”
The next day, the DNC flagged our post and my paper to the EIP. In response, an EIP analyst wrote: “the FB [Facebook] post’s text is not necessarily false, but the link to the webpage does contain false/misleading information. … [We] recommend keeping an eye on TPPF for other misleading or false reports.”
Our webpage summary of my report contained
