I figure I would bump this now that more people are aware of the Virality Project. For the bigger picture read the stack
Some interesting links below.
A bit more on DHS-CISA censorship. CISA appears to prefer to use private entities to make censorship requests. In 2020 it was the Election Integrity Project (EIP) for Election matters and then transitioned to the Vitality Project (VP) for COVID
Both are interesting in their naming. Integrity as in “Integrity Initiative” perhaps?. And Virality. VIRALITY is “The state or condition of being viral; tendency to spread by word of mouth.” Suggesting that words are a virus to be eradicated. People must be inoculated against the truth (censored)
Here is the Virality Project Report. Interesting reading.
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mx395xj8490/Virality_project_final_report.p
Both EIP and VP are basically run by the same folks : Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika
Each of the four entities is also deeply connected to the US military and foreign policy establishment. These four institutions further came into the 2020 election cycle with deep pre-existing connections to the major social media companies' content moderation teams,having worked together on censorship issues since the field first began developing in 2017.
There are a lot of fascinating details here. Mike Benz has done a good job exposing it .
https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-9-22.html