The Deep State Stenographers at USSA Today published something with this ridiculous headline. “Why the conspiracy theory that Biden will use COVID to rig election is spreading unchecked.”
It has nothing to do with that “free speech” clause thing in the First Amendment or how the government got caught censoring Americans in violation of it and can’t censor them the way they’d like. That would at least be honest reporting.
“Ideas we don’t like or disagree with run rampant because it is illegal to silence them.” That’s a much more accurate headline. USSA Today could even go on to talk about why they disagree. Instead, get research cited to justify their ridiculous headline from a partisan group USSA insists is non-partisan.
1) This is USSA Today, and 2) they need you to believe the same party that would rig its primary elections against Democrats wouldn’t do the same thing to Republicans, so this has to be conspiratorial rubbish.
It’s a false, but rising, conspiracy theory: as COVID-19 rates climb later this year, the Biden administration will reinstate pandemic restrictions and push mail-in ballots to influence the next election. And some social media platforms are now allowing it to spread openly.
That’s the finding of a new study from Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan research agency, which warns that in spite of a rapidly escalating number of posts about COVID and mail-in ballots, social platforms are generally not removing the claims or labeling them with fact-check warnings.
We can stop there because everything that follows is based on the idea that Advance Democracy (by which I feel confident he means mob rule) is a non-partisan research agency, which it is not. Daniel Jones runs Advance Democracy.
A nonprofit group run by a former top aide for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein who has pushed debunked claims about a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank spent the post-2016 era funneling millions to Christopher Steele’s company and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
Daniel Jones, lead author of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s interrogation program, founded the Democracy Integrity Project in January 2017. Tax records show he funded Steele, Fusion, and others, keeping a web of groups working and donor money flowing to the tune of millions of dollars for years, helping the groups continue their Russia-related research into 2020.
Jones’s role pays him over $398,000.00 a year for his work, funded in part by “the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a left-leaning foundation funded by some of the biggest names in the technology industry and Silicon Valley.”
Daniel J. Jones is a former Teach for America alum who joined the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under then-Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) as an investigator after completing his master’s degree in policy and working for the FBI for four years as an investigator. Jones is most famous for his work leading a seven-year investigation into allegations of torture by the U.S. government after 9/11. He published a report in December 2014 that detailed acts of torture committed by the CIA. 2
After leaving the U.S. Senate, Jones founded Advance Democracy Inc. in January 2018, four days after Jones was identified as a partner of Fusion GPS and its investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion claims. 3
And by biggest names, whom might they mean?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has donated nearly $2 billion in his company’s stock to SVCF since 2010, according to Forbes, including $214 million in November 2018. Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey contributed $21 million in Square stock in 2015, and Netflix founder Reed Hastings gave $100 million in 2016. Google co-founder Sergey Brin gave $10 million in 2015.
Starbucks founder and potential 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz gave $1 million in 2014. J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, gave $605,000 in 2016 through his family foundation, according to Forbes, which pulled donor information from Security Exchange Commission filings.
Nothing Jones touches could be non-partisan. Inconvenient truths I found on the internet in fewer than five minutes if the folks at USSA today are looking for any non-partisan freelance fact-checkers to improve the veracity of the rubbish they publish.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, prominent right-wing figures continue to promote Trump’s claims. Several referenced the Infowars article or related allegations, according to Advance Democracy.
“The prevalence of this conspiracy theory, which has remained largely unaddressed on social media platforms, suggests that purposeful disinformation from far-right actors will continue to grow as the election draws near,” Daniel Jones, president of Advance Democracy, told USA TODAY.
The piece rambles endlessly – the way a liar can’t shut up – in defense of vote by mail and how important it is to social justice (or something), all while attacking social media companies for letting people who disagree with them … disagree.
Why can’t Advance Democracy, with its 4.7 million dollars in financial support (2021, they only reported 4.3 million in 2020) and a CEO who works 25 hours a week and gets paid 398,000 dollars, find a way to compete in the arena of ideas with ideas?
Oh, wait – they did, thanks to USSA Today and who knows what else. Jones did work with the FBI and Fusion GPS and had connections to the debunked Steele Dossier and the treason associated with using it to interfere with an election and a presidency.
The non-partisan guy running the non-partisan research group.
Right.
