{"id":2358444,"date":"2024-10-23T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-censorship-org-advising-kamala-aims-to-kill-musks-twitter\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:32:13","slug":"u-k-censorship-org-advising-kamala-aims-to-kill-musks-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-censorship-org-advising-kamala-aims-to-kill-musks-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Censorship Org Advising Kamala Aims To \u2018Kill Musk\u2019s Twitter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-k-censorship-org-advising-kamala-aims-to-kill-musks-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon \u200dMusk&#8217;s platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), is \u2063highlighted as a key space advocating for \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">free speech<\/a>, yet it \u2062has become a primary target \u200bfor\u200d a leftist group, the Center for Countering Digital \u2063Hate (CCDH). Reports indicate that\u200c CCDH&#8217;s focus has been on undermining Musk&#8217;s efforts, with\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-asked-twitter-to-suspend-journalist-he-doesnt-like\/\" title=\"Adam Schiff Asks Twitter to Suspend Journalist He Don&#039;t Like\">internal documents revealing<\/a> that &#8220;Kill Musk\u2019s Twitter&#8221; has been a significant agenda item for months. Founded by\u200d British Labour strategists Imran Ahmed\u2062 and \u200cMorgan McSweeney, CCDH seeks\u200c to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-cant-solve-our-cancel-culture-problem\/\" title=\"Government Can\u2019t Solve our Cancel Culture Problem\">suppress free speech<\/a> \u200bby dismissing inconvenient facts and advancing a\u200d leftist\u2063 agenda, \u2062including \u200bties to political figures\u200b like\u200d Kamala \u2062Harris. Musk himself has responded defiantly, declaring, \u201cThis is \u2064war.\u201d\u200d CCDH is involved in lobbying against conservative media and has connections\u200c that reinforce its alignment\u200c with leftist political\u2064 strategies, indicating a coordinated effort to \u200dcontrol narratives and\u200c silence\u200d dissenting\u2064 views in \u200cthe political landscape.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elon Musk&rsquo;s X, formerly called Twitter, is one of the few outlets attempting to foster free speech, and a well-connected foreign leftist group has designated it a top target.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kill Musk&rsquo;s Twitter&rdquo; has been the top item written on the Center for Countering Digital Hate&rsquo;s (CCDH&rsquo;s) meeting agendas for months, according to internal documents publicly reported this week by <a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/p\/election-exclusive-british-advisors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporters<\/a> Paul D. Thacker and Matt Taibbi at The Disinformation Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>CCDH is a tax-exempt part of the global censorship-industrial complex that works to quell free speech, primarily through hiding facts that are inconvenient for leftists, such as that men and women are different and pharmaceuticals have side effects. It also has connections to the Kamala Harris campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Not one to sit quietly, Musk responded Tuesday with a three-word post: &ldquo;This is war.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>CCDH was founded by Imran Ahmed and Morgan McSweeney, both British Labour Party political strategists. In 2020, CCDH <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/17\/google-the-federalist-nbc-news-demonetize-ads\/\">sought to strip Google ad revenue<\/a> from The Federalist over editor John Daniel Davidson&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/03\/the-media-are-lying-to-you-about-everything-including-the-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>, &ldquo;The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots,&rdquo; which calls out dishonest coverage of the 2020 George Floyd riots from legacy media including the New York Times and CNN.<\/p>\n<p>McSweeney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/kamala-harris-us-elections-2024-politics-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attended<\/a> the Democrat National Convention and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-told-how-to-win-by-uk-labour-strategist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advising<\/a> the Harris campaign. Imran has worked with U.S. media to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/series\/44\/musk-trump-attacks-kamala-harris-failing-miserably\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">narrative<\/a> about Harris as a victim of mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media posts<\/a>, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/election-disinformation-elon-musk-x-trump-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stories<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/instagram-gendered-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">picked up<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/women-politicians-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle-face-horrific-social-media-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">friendly<\/a> reporters. <\/p>\n<p>McSweeney also founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourtogether.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Labour Together<\/a>, a leftist U.K. think tank that pushes Labour Party messaging for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. McSweeney was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/oct\/07\/starmers-new-chief-of-staff-to-make-radical-changes-to-no-10-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">named<\/a> Starmer&rsquo;s chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Thacker and Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/p\/election-exclusive-british-advisors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> details how propaganda media have been calling the Labour and Democrat parties &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/kamala-harris-us-elections-2024-politics-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sister parties,<\/a>&rdquo; with both leaning on McSweeney&rsquo;s advice.<\/p>\n<p>CCDH, McSweeney&rsquo;s brainchild, is registered as a nonprofit in the United States too, with a mission of combating &ldquo;hate and disinformation.&rdquo; They define this as &ldquo;identity&shy;-based hate,&rdquo; or noticing that men and women are different; any information that <a href=\"https:\/\/counterhate.com\/topic\/climate-change-misinformation\/\">reduces demand<\/a> for totalitarian climate change policies; questioning government- and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">pharma industry-sponsored health claims<\/a>; &ldquo;antisemitism&rdquo;; and &ldquo;child safety,&rdquo; according to its U.S. 990 tax form and its <a href=\"https:\/\/counterhate.com\/research\/star-framework-to-build-a-safe-and-accountable-internet\/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw1NK4BhAwEiwAVUHPUM8bTWW_fA5In9qGwlfBaRU-_i-ybLvf0GUM6jBmEj5eaBxdsrCrQBoC-TYQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Already there is synergy between the Democrat and Labour parties. The U.K.&rsquo;s Labour Party is reportedly providing around 100 former and current members to travel to the U.S. and do door-knocking for the Harris campaign. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680; NEW: Elon Musk has been community noted after claiming that Labour sending campaign volunteers to campaign in the US election is illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NqVw6MpULp\">pic.twitter.com\/NqVw6MpULp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitlcsUK\/status\/1847018972098478550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The center&rsquo;s agenda also shows it is pushing European-style government control of online conversations in the United States. A bullet point on its list of annual priorities targets, &ldquo;Progress towards change in USA and support for STAR.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[The Center for Countering Digital Hate] held meetings with federal legislators while pushing for &lsquo;change in USA&rsquo; toward a censorious proposal it calls the STAR framework, which would create an &lsquo;independent digital regulator&rsquo; that could &lsquo;impose consequences for harmful content,&rsquo;&rdquo; Thacker and Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/p\/election-exclusive-british-advisors\">reported<\/a>. &ldquo;STAR&rsquo;s core concepts are similar to Europe&rsquo;s just-instituted Digital Services Act and Britain&rsquo;s even more stringent Online Safety Act, which puts the national media regulator Ofcom in charge of determining fines for uncooperative platforms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X, previously Twitter, is targeted by a leftist group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2358445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kill-Musks-Twitter.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32311,32438,43473,4253,43556],"class_list":["post-2358444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-free-speech","tag-kamala-harris","tag-social-media-policy","tag-twitter","tag-u-k-censorship"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kill-Musks-Twitter.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}