Leaked Documents Outline US Homeland Security's Plan To Work With Big Tech To Censor Social Media

The Intercept: Truth Cops  

Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation 

The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. 

Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms. 

The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. 

While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.  

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WNU Editor: Sighhh .... another indication on how powerful the National Security establishment has become in the US..

U.S. Department Of Homeland Security Threat Assessment Omits Antifa

The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2020

Washington Times: Antifa missing from DHS threat assessment after Trump threatens domestic terrorist group designation 

Antifa is absent from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s newest report on threats facing the nation regardless of President Trump repeatedly asserting its adherents are domestic terrorists. 

The latest homeland threat assessment released by DHS on Tuesday contains zero mentions of Antifa, the global anti-fascist movement that Mr. Trump has called a domestic terror organization. 

DHS said violent “anarchist extremists” have co-opted lawful protests in several U.S. cities including Portland, Oregon, however, where Antifa adherents have regularly rallied in recent months. 

The assessment – a 26-page public report prepared by the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, or I&A – calls white supremacist extremists the nation’s “most persistent and lethal threat.” 

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WNU Editor: Of course Antifa was not included. It's just an ideology .... FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization (AP). In the meantime rioters who call themselves Antifa continue their carnage and mayhem ... Remember the riots? They're still happening (Courier Express). And as for President Trump saying that Antifa will be designated a terrorist organization. It looks like Homeland Security has a different point of view.